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Caesars decision and the fate of rome, by luca fezzi, yale university. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read crossing the rubicon. There most certainly is a connection to the attacks and the future use of black ops bioresearch. The book has many documents reproduced in it to further bolster rupperts presentation. Oct 14, 2004 on page 518 of crossing the rubicon, i believe ruppert hits on the most likely reasons behind all these murders. The first ideas for the book were originally envisioned back in 1992 as a.
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