Rawlings Hit List Is A Fake !

I hereby present the following article for your consideration and publication.

It is with a high sense of urgency that I am sending this article, considering the ramifications of the hoax dealt with in this article.

Your usually very warm co-operation, for which I am very grateful, is anticipated.

Nana Akyea Mensah
Rawlings Hit List Is A Fake !
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Pay particular attention to this e-mail address:
To: "Atomic Breeze"
I have reason to believe that all the e-mails circulating are mortally flawed and capable of being exposed as a cheap hoax even without any help from experts.

- Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah
I have been compelled to write this article hurriedly oweing to its urgency and also because I have noticed that a crucial link connecting readers to an evidence in this national security issue of the Rawlings Hit List posted by Mr.Jehu-Appiah is not working. I have taken the decision to make them possible for the reader to see what Mr. Jehu-Appiah is trying to tell us. For the original copy to I have provided a link to it below.

I have received an e-mail from Mr. Ali-Masmadi Jehu-Appiah, one of the people who received this mail long before it came into the news on the 20th November, 2008. His reactions bear the same date. There are several witnesses to this and the fact that the earliest know source to date remains:

From: "Yofi Grant"
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:10:46 -0000
To: >
Subject: RE: Could this possibly be true???
…..yeah, whats new? I guess he will try any means possible…… if you live in Ghana you will understand, he has been up to all sorts of things….

R. Yofi Grant
Executive Director, Databank Financial Services Limited

Chairman, Databank Brokerage Limited
Where Police Must Begin Their Investigations
It is obvious that this man must be made to reveal where he got the information from. The one who sent him the mail could then be asked the same question in turn, until we reach the culprit. I am surprised that no one is taking notice of it. it leaves me in no doubt that the supposed hit list of Rawlings is a fake. I think what must rather to invite interpol experts on internet data retention and analysis to come out once and for all on this matter.

I perfectly agree with Mr. Jehu-Appiah that the best way to catch the cumprit is to put pressure on some of the senders in the original distribution trees such as the one mentioned in this e-mail.

It is crystal clear that the e-mail doing the rounds and poisoning the political atmosphere is a hoax.

Please read on:
From: Ali-Masmadi JEHU-APPIAH
show details 20 Nov

Reply
Hi, ...Good day!
What a pleasant surprise! The only thing good about this spam is that at least I can say coccoo! How is life. I am working quite late as you can see from the time of sending this mail! I am so busy these few days because I want the NPP to fall!

I hope none of you have fallen to this propaganda?
Anyway, Fred, what kind of nonsense is this? I have been receiving a lot of 419 spams in my mail. This is the first one with a familiar name! I shall be asking Kwesi Pratt, Jnr. an experienced and seasoned politician on threats to his life to advise me personally on this one before I make my final conclusions. In the meanwhile when you have an authentic e-mail message the standard format is always like this:

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MESSAGE BEGINS:
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Isaac Quist

Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:48 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Could this possibly be true???
OR for example a hypothetical case like the following:

from "J. J Rawlings"

to(I have edited original e-mail addresses.)
Ali-Masmadi JEHU-APPIAH ,
james Laast ,
John T ,
Joe T ,
Abeku
date 20 November 2008 01:57
subject FW: Could this possibly be true???
mailed-by hotmail.com
And not like this:
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2008 03:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:
This sender is DomainKeys verified
"J. J Rawlings"

Add sender to Contacts
Subject : MARSH POTATO - additional input
To: "Atomic Breeze"
Pay particular attention to this e-mail address:
To: "Atomic Breeze"
The reason why only yahoo is is blue is because it is a stupid forgery! It is the predictable result of cut and paste forgery. (Further explanations not part of the original message: If the recipient could not be said to have technically received the message, this means the message can not be said to have originated by the purpoted sender. The only option this leaves us is to look for who fist sent it. It is rather the one who originally forwarded this who is the inventor. There could have been no JJ Rawlings sender of this e-mail, because his receiver can not be technically accounted for. Technically there is no original receiver apart from those to whom it was first forwarded. This is why it is important to trace sources. The purported receiver here is an electronic ghost, and like all ghosts no one can prove their scientific existence apart from identifying their human inventors!)

1. This fact is independent upon whether or not the sender is DomainKeys verified!

2. Yahoo senderdomain key, even if accurate does not prove the message did originate from Rawlings. Yahoo does not ask for your birth certificate in order to open an e-mail address. Any fool can sign in as JJ Rawlings!

3. It is quite curious that our JJ hear takes great pains to use all sorts of names for this "operation" such as "

" MARSH 1" and "BULL DOGS", "RAINBOW 5" was to draw "MAPS" for a "MILD BUFFER" and "ROUGH HARRIS"

and yet he does nothing to disguise his own name on Yahoo! It takes less than five minutes to open one with a million of names possible! He is supposed to have sent an e-mail to a "Atomic Breeze" !!!!!

4. There is a clear beneficiary inside this spam:
"Nunoo -Mensah flirts with NPP and cannot be trusted."

5. Here I think the writer is singing more from an NPP hymn sheet that the minimum intelligence we are all obliged to credit Rawlings else we do not even understand politics! It has been overdone.

" We gave birth to the NDC and made them all what they are today after a hard won revolution, at a time when these cowards were hiding under their beds. Today, they want to take over our asset, reaping heavily where they have sown little or nothing. With respect to Fifi, the least said about him the better. Akufo-Addo is far better candidate in terms of public appeal. He is charismatic, fluent, healthier, politically up to scratch, streetwise, globally accepted and has a better message. We also have a problem with the floating voters and Spio would have been the right choice. This is why I said the NDC is not ready to take power. Hear what Kufuor is saying about Fifi's health. This kind of enterprise requires a very healthy person in the eyes of the public and we all know that our man is not. Are we waiting for him to drop dead in November? John Mahama may have an appreciable level of public appeal but not what can translate to votes. He is not frontline leadership material. The man worked under me and I know him. I have been in politics for quite sometime now and have stood twice for elections and won. I have been Head of State of this nation for about two decades and privy to what most of you are not privy to, so when I speak, the NDC should listen. The NPP people are very smart so we should not take any chances.

As for the GA people, they exposed all our land dealings with them to Kufuor. Now they want to use us to blackmail Kufuor. They can go to hell. After all, the majority of occupants of Greater Accra are Akans and other tribes, not Gas.

All ops, foreign and local on the ground are ready. This ops must be executed with the sharpest precision to accord it the credibility it requires. Keep track of your shadows and beware of the Army and Police who seem to have developed some stupid love for this government, thereby making it difficult to break their ranks. Kufuor and his brother Addo-Kufuor have cocooned them. God help us.

Justice"
6. Typical NPP elitist vocabulary, not that of Rawlings: "Victor – ex boy".

7. Keep your domain keys to yourself! If there is an empirical evidence what are the tribunals for? I see, sorry, perhaps you are expecting me to go and arrest and try him! Is someone confusing our e-mail addresses with the IGP or the Minister of the Interior who is also on the list?

8. This e-mail is telling me it is coming directly from Rawlings yet it says

"People of Ghana, on Rawlings' Hot list of people 'to be dealt with' being circulated by email amongst certain NDC gurus and operatives, are names such as..."

I think it a bit odd that Rawlings would be delivering a list in the third person. I do net see 'I' or 'me'. What is wrong? Is it a story that ends with Rawlings committing suicide by shooting himself four times on his back?

Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2008 04:14:07 -0800 (PDT)
From:
This sender is DomainKeys verified
"J. J Rawlings"

Add sender to Contacts
Subject : MARSH POTATO - LIST
To: "Atomic Breeze"
(Comment: Notice the change this time of the e-mail address of the recipient. It is different from the first one which could be technically described as having been sent and recieved.)

People of Ghana, on Rawlings' Hot list of people 'to be dealt with' being circulated by email amongst certain NDC gurus and operatives, are names such as Rev. Aboagye Mensah, J.A. Kufuor, Francess Essiam, IGP Patrick Acheampong, CDS J.B. Danquah, Nana Ama Kufuor, Steve Asamoah Boateng, Archbishop Palmer Buckle, Professor Attefuah, Gabby Okyere Darko, Kweku Baako,

(We should be able on our) own to intelligently secure the important doubts surrounding an e-mail like this, rather than peddling it around without even a single comment! What kind of ...is this?

Akufo Addo is going to lose the elections, whether you like it or not. The circulation of such lies will speed this up and not do anything to prevent the far reaching changes that I smell in the air!

Yes, we can!!!
ali
Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange
END OF MESSAGE
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I wish to terminate this article by quoting extensively Mr. Jehu-Appiahs remarks on the shameful and dangerous episode that probably threathens our young democracy:

"Viral emails have emerged as a form of stealth propaganda recently, most noticeably in the recent U.S. presidential campaign, when Barack Obama was dogged with false claims that he was a Muslim", writes Sheldon Rampton, "that he was refused to salute the American flag, that he was not a U.S. citizen and so forth." He continues. "The Washington Post reported earlier this year that Danielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, attempted to trace the chain of one of those emails and found what the Washington Post called "valuable insight into the way political information circulates, mutates and sometimes devastates in the digital age." She noted that the anonymous nature of viral emails, combined with the word-of-mouth way that they spread, makes them hard to counter. "This kind of misinformation campaign short-circuits judgment," she said. "It also aggressively disregards the fundamental principle of free societies that one be able to debate one's accusers."

Recently a friend forwarded me a viral email that has apparently been circulating since at least June of this year. I haven't seen it previously, but a Google search turned up several copies on various websites. This particular viral message was unrelated to Obama or the presidential campaign but carries its own load of rhetoric aimed at shaping public opinion. On the principle that these subterranean propaganda campaigns ought to be openly discussed and exposed, I thought I'd respond to this one publicly." ( Hollywood Goes to War, by Sheldon Rampton, Submitted Thu, 11/13/2008)

Cheers. The whole thing is certainly a fake. We can vote in peace.

God bless Ghana.
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