[altotrees]

Another great installment. It is more mind-bending to me each week, the level of planning, the number of ties Le Roux has to so many different places and people with varied histories and interests. Even assuming conservatively that only 50 percent of what is written is fact, it is still crazy to think about.

It is quite a story, Le Roux going from a gangly teenager hunched over his computer to a man who is able to amass a small commando squad at a moments notice...it seems as though Hollywood would struggle to come up with such a plot.

[at-fates-hands]

I wonder if you could call this guy a kind of a criminal renaissance man. The amount of criminal activity he was involved with and the things he did are mind bendingly complex.

How you go from raising an army to invade a country, operating shady call centers in a myriad of countries, and ordering hits on reporters and real estate agents is anybody's guess. The crazy thing is he was running all of this by himself. I'm still puzzled how he managed to do it for so long.