Underneath the deck, the hold was filled with weapons that were to be sold to combatants in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and the rest of Africa.The Iranians ...were having a fire sale. That’s why more modern weapons were turning up in Africa and the Middle East.The Iranian weapon delivery system was falling into hard times and the revenue the arm sales produced was coming to an end. Every shipment that was seized was less money they were to receive.After thirty years of embargoes and sanctions, the. I did not recognize the species, but I suspect it was responsible for the youngling's disappearance.' Roth continued, describing Elaine in some detail, which surprised her as he'd only viewed her for the second or two it had taken for him to draw his weapon and fire. Evidently, and despite the xenophobia of his species, he had no difficulty noticing details of the 'vile abominations' that were not Arcadians. To Elaine, all Arcadians looked identical, and she couldn't see any differences even. It was organized. The demographics were also a huge shift. Leah would often be the only white woman in the room at her inner city school. Leah didn't care about race. She wanted to teach children--but that didn't mean no one else did. She was accused by many students for being racist when she had to discipline them for even the most outrageous incidents. Needless to say at her first school she had to worry about students by passing the metal detector. At her current school she had to only worry. It was harped constantly that I needed to focus on my intellect and my spiritual development, to offset my physical defects.I suppose I was grateful later in my life that the constant injections of venoms and plant poisons gave me a resistance immunity to almost all natural forms of poison, but as a growing child, it was torture to be half paralyzed with curare, or rattlesnake venom, forbidden to play with other children, and made to study things like physics, chemistry, mathematics, music,.