ROB wrote:Was always astounded at how most of BFC were happy to jump in with this guy.
Loose canon idiot who I wouldn't want anywhere near me in a developing country.
But when you meet someone in person and they present themselves as the exact opposite of a loose cannon, which Aqil could do quite well, it makes some sense.
Its one of those things like "If all your friends jumped off the Empire state building would you too?" and the answer is "Yes, of course, because there obviously is a circumstance I cannot see that is causing them to do this." When you look back on it you see a normal, and seemingly reasonable group of people doing something foolish, but when you are there it makes sense.
I had a falling out with him. A big one. And I never told him about it cuz I did not want him to get all theateningly -killy on me. So you had a bunch of people happy to jump in with him and you had a bunch of people who all slowly bailed on him as well.
When he was in prison in Mexico he probably had support equaling more than my monthly salary at the time of the support. Before he went to Durango he asked me if I wanted to come down to Mexico with him and I asked him to hold off on doing anything until I got back from my family reunion in Norway (trying to get him to have a cooling down period) and he promised me and then ..blam! we know what happened, so I figured "hell, I would go down to Mexico to kill Federales too if they killed my girlfriend...or I would if I was Aqil so yah. I guess I understand.
Then he started calling from prison asking me to tell people he was going to break out and cut their heads off. The people he did this too were always people who had helped him out in the past. I refused to threaten people for him. I mean, shit. How long would I have been free to roam the earth if I called Casey Affleck like he wanted me to do and threaten to decapitate him? Not very long. Or Lech Kowalski, a cool dude who used to post here. I warned Lech that Aqil wanted me to pass along a "Decapitation-A-Gram" to him while we had breakfast and bloody marys one morning.
Then when he got out and abandoned his Mexican family and kid I figured anyone who leaves their child like that is really quite dangerous and so I clammed up about him. Never said anything bad about him when people said "why did you support him" I gave the honest answer "I support my friends" but I would not have supported him after he left his family and I never did.
Except once, by accident. Which that poster Executiveout touched on a while back. But no one listened to me when I said that he was Cuban intel and their Cubatel phone was being monitored...so the best information I ever had in my life when I counter-intelled Cuban intel, everyone ignored. Which is funny.
Oh yah, I refused to sign the rights over for my likeness to be used in a Hollywood teleplay as "The Nerd". Long story, sounds better as a brief one.
Too bad he is dead. If he used his qualities for helping others (without killing) only 20% of the time he would have had Hagiographies written about him. No doubt my life was a bit more interesting because of him and no doubt the only reason I am still alive was by being as meek as possible and making him laugh. Though that still got an invitation for vengeance party in Mexico. I cannot imagine what demands he made on people who swaggered in front of him