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During the many wars in Africa for political power across multiple countries, The Jackal sat down with a reporter in order to tell his side. Here are the transcripts of his tapes.

“The Jackal” Interview Tapes: Transcription
Interview Tape Number (ITN): 01
Subject: Infamy
-BEGIN TAPE-
The Jackal “You can’t break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The Harder you beat a man, the taller he stands. To break a man’s will. To break his spirit, you have to break his mind. Men have this idea that we can fight with dignity, that there’s a proper way to kill someone. It’s absurd, it’s anesthetic. We need it to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy that idea. Show him what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man. And then show him that you relish in it. Shoot the wound, then execute the wounded. Burn them, take them in close combat. Destroy their pre-conceptions of what a man is and you become their personal monster. When they fear you, you become stronger. You become better. But lets never forget. It’s a display. A posture. Like a lion’s roar or a gorilla thumping at his chest. If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror. Then you become the monster. You become reduced. Not more than a man, but less. And it can be fatal.”
-END OF TAPE-

ITN:02
Subject: Smuggling
-BEGIN TAPE-

The Jackal “Getting them in is easy, I get them in over the mountain, through the desert, whatever. The hard part is moving them inside the country. Whenever you get stopped you either gotta bribe someone or kill someone. Not good for business. No, once your inside you want to hand off as fast as possible. Let the dealer deal with it.”

REPORTER “How do they move a shipment?”

The Jackal “I delivered about 600 kilos of C4 to Pantue about 6 months ago, showed up with a dozen of his men, dead men. He packed C4 into their corpses. Figured no one would search them. Smart Guy,

-END OF TAPE-




ITN:03
Subject: Circulation

REPORTER: “Where do you get the weapons?”

The Jackal: “It’s a romantic notion that they all came out of the Soviet Union after the collapse. That was a windfall back in ’89 maybe thru ’91 but that’s all over. I move weapons, I profit from circulation. You get a cease-fire in Liberia, both sides disarm…Do you think they’ll just slag 2,000 tons of guns? No. They sell them to me. I re-sell them wherever the next war is starting. “

REPORTER: “What’s the percentage of the guns you sell that are from 1989?”

The Jackal: “Hm, well that’s about half. The rest mostly come from old European Armies. they abandon they’re colonies back in the ‘60s and ‘70s along with their guns. You know, French guns, Dutch, Belgian.

REPORTER: “So most of these guns are very old. They get sold, bought, and sold repeatedly.”

[The Jackal laughs]

The Jackal: “They’re not bio-degradable. Only the dead are bio-degradeable.

-END OF TAPE-


ITN:04

SUBJECT: Economics

Reporter: “Why arms? Why not car parts [or] radios?"

The Jackal: “What’s the difference? Same job, really. You get up, you get on the phone, you meet your clients you discuss a fair price. You make a delivery, receive payment. Sounds boring, but it’s not. It’s just..simple. I’m doin’ when men have been doin’ for thousands of years. Trading one thing for another. If it’s you who wants to attach morality to it? Make it evil? Insane. People who work in gun factories in Belgium or the United States, they’re unionized, right? You think kids making radios in Bangladesh pull down 40 grand a year on a 40 hour week? You start thinking too much about morality, that’s insane.”

-END OF TAPE-


ITN:05
Subject: Home

REPORTER: “Why Africa? People need weapons all over the world. Why here. Why my home.”

The Jackal: “Every place is someone’s home, ‘pal’. But it doesn’t stop people from goin’ to war. I don’t start wars, I didn’t start this war. It seems like it’s your fellow Africans who want each other dead. Besides, why should I give a shit about your home? Why should I give a shit about anyone. You want me to go somewhere else? Is there another person’s home you don’t give a shit about?”

REPORTER: “What if it was your home?”

The Jackal: “War is my home.”

---END OF TAPE---

ITN:06

Subject: Rat-Catcher

The Jackal: “I spent a year in ‘Black Beach’ once. In the dark, it’s a hell hole. Covered in raw sewage. Guards breaking some other people’s fingers just out of pure fuckin’ mean-ness. Men die of starvation there all the time. I saw a guy in the opposite cell catch a rat with his teeth. They had him in handcuffs all day for two months. He couldn’t eat. Seeing someone do that…he was weeping when he crushed it to death in his mouth. Seeing his eyes, his face. It’s madness. He was dead 3 days later.”

REPORTER: “What killed him?”

The Jackal: “Realization of what he’d turned into.”

---END OF TAPE---


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ITN:07
Subject: Stability

REPORTER: “Do you ever choose sides in a conflict?”

The Jackal: “Aha, no. Did it once, bad idea. Cut my profits in half, and nearly got me killed. Never again. You sell to both sides. You can help level the field, stabilize the market. Draw out the conflict and make more money. Making a large sale to one side doesn’t get repeat business. Both the APR and the UFLL are using my weapons. Now they’re in “De Taunt” Both sides are stockpiling, less violence, more spending. It’s perfect.”

REPORTER: “But it’s anarchy. Thousands are dead. Hundreds of Thousands have been displaced.

The Jackal: “If I picked sides fewer would be displaced, but more would be dead. And I’d probably be one of ‘em.

---END OF TAPE---


ITN:08
Subject: The Humanist.

REPORTER: “Have you ever refused to sell weapons to anybody?”

The Jackal: “I’m a humanist, I don’t judge. Maybe you would.”

REPORTER: “I couldn’t sell arms”

The Jackal: “Bullshit, Ruben. You have all the skills to be an arms dealer. Better one then me, even. Your smart, your creative, you’re a salesmen. Eheh. You sold me on doing these dumb interviews. Man, the rest is just paperwork.”

REPORTER: “I might be able, but psychologically unable to sell arms.”

The Jackal: “I’m talking facts, you’re talking theory. You’re not a ‘good person’ Ruben, you’ve just been lucky enough. You’ve never had to be otherwise. When it comes down to it, a man can do what a man will do. Believe what you want.”

---END OF TAPE---




ITN:09
Subject: Stealing Boots
The Jackal: “Saw this kid on the side of the road yesterday. Could’ve been 18, 17. Had a shotgun across his lap. A dead APR in the ditch next to him. Couple of rounds from the 12-guauge tore big chunks of hamburger from his torso. Kid was liftin’ up the guy’s leg, taking off his boots. Kid just looked tired. Beat down, ragged, tired…old… A kid that age…shouldn’t look like that.

---END OF TAPE---


ITN: 10
Subject: Necessary Evil

The Jackal: Arms Dealer's Story