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HBO Program Tracks Hate Groups
Watery Grave of Russian Su
Brings Crewman’s Message
get to the surface,” K uroyedov
A note found on a body recovered
quoted
the note as saying. After the
from the sunken Russian nuc lear sub
Kursk
sank,
Russian submersibles
marine shows that at leas, 23 people
were
unable
to
latch onto the hatch,
survived the powerful explosions that
but Norwe
killed most o f r
gian divers
the crew and
w ho fo l
sunk the ves
lowed man
sel, sealing
aged
to
the fate of the
open
it
a
rest, accord
week
after
in g to th e
the tragedy
ITAR-TASS
— and de-
n e w s
te rm in e d
agency.
th at th ere
T he d e s
werenosur-
perate m es
v i v o r s .
sage, which
Kuroyedov
th e a u th o r This undated image from the Russian
Television
Channel
shows
Russian
Lt.
Dmitry
said
divers’
mysteriously
operations
Kolesnikov,
the
commander
o
f
the
Kursk's
sa y s
w as
in the sev
w r i t t e n turbine section, aboard the Kursk submarine.
e
n th and
“ b lin d ly ,”
eighth
com
partm
ents
had
been
says the survivors gathered in the
stopped
and
the
divers
were
concen
compartment where the emergency
trating their search on the ninth com
escape hatch was located— but could
partment.
not escape. The letter may also turn
The letter also contains important
into the most grisly and poignant
details about the accident that sank
indictmentofPresident Vladimir Putin,
the Kursk — and the drama that cap
who vacationed through the earliest
tured the attention o f the world, Vice-
days o f the drama and reportedly
Admiral Mikhail Motsak, chiefof staff
rejected the first offers o f interna
ofR ussia’s Northern Fleet, said later
tional help in reaching the vessel. But
during a TV interview. But he said the
it was unclear if a quicker response
contents o f the letter were private
w ould have saved the survivors
and would be handed over to rela
trapped inside the compartment.
tives.
R ussian N avy c h ie f Adm.
Foreign and Russian ships in the
Vladimir Kuroyedov said at a meeting
area
and seismologists around the
with submariners’ widows the note
world
registered two powerful explo
— written an hour or so after the Aug.
sions
in
the Barents Sea around 11:30
12 explosions — was found in the
p.m.
local
time on Aug. 12. All 118
pocket o f a seaman identified only as
submariners
were killed, either by the
Lt. D.R. Kolesnikov, ITAR-Tass said.
initial
blast,
or
in the days following
“All the crew from the sixth, sev
as
desperate,
repeated
attempts to
enth and eighth compartments went
reach
the
vessel
failed.
overto the ninth. There are 23 people
The government’s handling o f the
here. We made this decision as a
disaster— including a perceived de-
result o f the accident. N oneofus can
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AP T elevision W riter
ing robots and m echanical arms.
lay in requesting outside help, and
Divers have used an instrum ent
the release o f often contradictory in
that sprays pressurized water nnxec
formation — angered and shocked
with diamond dust to cut the K ursk’s
many Russians and threatened to
2 -in c h th ic k in n e r ste e l hu ll.
undermine the fledgling Putin admin
K uroyedov had w arned that he
istration. The letter could spark a ne w
m
ight cancel the recovery effort if
wave o f outrage.
experts
ruled that divers’ lives were
Initial sonar reports said tapping
in
danger.
Two widows o f the Kursk
heard on the hull o f the vessel sug
crew
m
em
bers visited the Regalia
gested that at least some sailors were
on
W
ednesday
and, on b e h a lfo fa ll
alive. But the tapping faded and dis
the
families,
pleaded
with the divers
appeared in the days following the
not
to
take
excessive
risks.
crippling explosion. O thers dis
But
President
V
ladim
ir Putin
counted the reports as unsubstanti
prom
ised to
ated and said the
re
c
o
v
e r the
sounds could have
bodies
at an
been caused by col
e
m
o
t
i
o
nal
lapsing equipment
m
eeting
with
or the subm arine
th e c r e w ’s
settling into the sea
re la tiv e s
bed.
shortly after
The letter was the
the disaster,
first real confirma
and the gov-
tion that anyone
e r n m e n t
had survived the
seem ed bent
initial blasts. Rus
on conduct
sian officials say
in g
th e
that up to two-thirds
costly
effort
o f the crew were
d e sp ite the
likely blown to bits
sh o rta g e o f
by powerful explo
funds for the
sions in the weap
Map Shows Location were
military.
ons room in the
Russian Sub went down
Som e
subm arine’s bow.
Russian m edia have pointed out
The survivors o f the initial explo
that by stubbornly conducting the
sions probably died o f drowning, hy
risky effort the governm ent wants
p o th e rm ia o r h ig h p re ssu re .
to vindicate its confused response
Kolesnikov was the only seaman to
to the sinking o f the K ursk, when it
have b e e n id e n tifie d so far,
resisted foreign help for days while
Kuroyedov said. Russian and Nor
botching its own rescue efforts.
w egian divers recovered the first
The cause o f the disaster rem ains
four bodies after five days o f pains
unknow n, w ith authorities point
taking w ork to cut holes in the top
ing at a collision with a W estern
o f the subm arine.
subm arine, W orld W ar Il-era mine
The com plex underw ater opera
or an internal m alfunction as pos
tion is being perform ed w ith lead
sible reasons.
ing-edge diving equipment, includ
NEW Y O RK (A P) — C heck
y o u r ste re o ty p e s at the door. The
best place to find pu rv ey o rs o f
ra c ia l hate is n 't in the back room
o f som e serv ice sta tio n in A la
bam a or M ississip p i.
I t’s on the In te rn e t, a fact o u t
lined w ith ch illin g d isp a ssio n on
th e new H B O d o c u m e n ta r y ,
“ H a te .c o m : E x tre m ists on the
In tern et. T he d o cu m en tary e x
plo res an o n lin e ra c ist su b c u l
ture, tracing its m em bers to m any
o f the n o to rio u s acts o f d o m estic
terro rism d u ring the p ast decade.
“ T he film is d e p re ssin g in the
s e n s e th a t it r e a lly p a in ts a
gloom y picture o f w h at’s out there
on the W eb,” said M orris D ees,
co -fo u n d e r o f the S o u th ern P o v
erty L.aw C en ter. "B u t 1 think
th a t’s n e c e ssa ry to do so m eth in g
about it.”
D ees, w hose o rg a n iz a tio n has
gone to court in an e ffo rt to b a n k
ru p t w hite sup rem acist o rg a n iz a
tio n s, w as con tacted by film m ak
ers to help p ro v id e in fo rm atio n
on hate groups. He grew so in
volved he becam e the film ’s n a r
rato r. S tartin g from sc ra tc h five
years ago, th ere are now betw een
300 and 500 racial hate W eb sites
o p e ra tin g now , D ees said. Don
Black, operator o f one o f the early
site s, is d e sc rib e d at the “ G o d fa
ther o f hate on the Internet.” Black
alm o st g le e fu lly d escrib es in the
film how in ex p en siv e and easy
the m edium is, w hile p ro v id in g
the an onym ity m any u sers r e
quire.
B lack’s 11-year-old son, Derek,
has started his ow n W eb site for
children. The site lets people click
o n to v e rs io n s o f the p o p u la r
video gam e “ D oom ,” w here p la y
ers kill black ch aracters.
T hese W eb sites help leaders
o f thé m ovem ent re c ru it young,
educated m em b ers, D ees said.
“ T hese are not tobacco-chew ing,
p o t-b e llie d K lansm en from the
D eep S o u th ,” he said. “ Y o u ’re
ta lk in g about c o lleg e-ed u cated ,
c le v e r p e o p le .”
Ju st as R otary C lubs are fin d
ing that people are less w illin g to
m eet in groups these days, so is
the K ian, D ees said B ut w ith the
W eb, “ th e y ’re able to c reate a
v irtu al o rg a n iz a tio n ,” he said.
“ H ate.co m ” in tro d u ces v ie w
ers to the leaders o f th e se m ove
m ents, in clu d in g the g lib W orld
C hurch o f the C re a to r founder
M att H ale and W illiam L. Pierce,
lead er o f the N atio n al A lliance.
P ie rc e ’s 1978 book, “ T he T u rner
D ia rie s,” a fictional account o f an
A m erican race war, was a favorite
o f both O klahom a C ity bom ber
T im othy M cV eigh and Bill K ing,
one o f three w hite m en co n v icted
o f dragging Jam es B yrd to his
death b ehind a pickup truck.
In one o f the film ’s m ost e ffe c
tive m om ents, Pierce reads a p a s
sage from his book d e scrib in g
the dazed faces o f bom bing v ic
tim s, w hile the screen show s foot
age o f shocked people in ju red in
O klahom a City.
Film m akers V ince D iPersioand
W illiam G uttentag include inter
view s with m ovem ent leaders and
figures like Joseph Paul Franklin, a
convicted mass murderer who talks
candidly from jail about killing two
women because they said they were
interested in dating black men. A
w om an, Brandi H ouston, proudly
displays her w hite suprem acist tat
too and talks crudely o f sending
blacks to A frica — a first step to
ward an effort to conquer the world
“and make the whole w orld w hite.”
The interview s are conveyed w ith
out a tone o f moral judgm ent. “If
it’s too strident and condem ning,
then it comes across as being po
lem ic,” Dees said. “ In cases w e’ve
used in the past, we usually let
these people hang them selves by
letting them tell their ow n stories.”
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