To Mongolia and Beyond! Friday, September 08, 2006. It was great to receive the following email from Tom, organiser of the Mongol Rally yesterday. A load of you will have met the incredibly charming little street kid.

Helping our troops escape into a good book since 1999. Operation Paperback is a national, non-profit organization, whose volunteers collect gently-used books and send them to American troops overseas, as well as veterans and military families here at home. Since 1999, we have shipped over 2. 2 million books to all of the orange countries on the adjacent map. Providing books from military Professional Reading Lists to support servicemember professional development goals.

Operation Paperclip was the codename under which the US intelligence and military services extricated scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is sometimes also known as Project Paperclip. Much of the information surrounding Operation Paperclip is still classified.

SPREAD THE INFORMATION TO EVERYONE IN ALL PLACES. THEY CAN NO LONGER STAND OR LIE TO US. RUN, RUN AND RUN, SPREAD IT IN YOUR CITY, TOWN OR STREET! AND TOGETHER, WE SHALL GIVE THEM A CHRISTMAS THAT SHALL NEVER, EVER BE FORGOTTEN.