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face jungle warlord promising bloodshed  By Alex Spillius July
20 2003 The Sun-Herald  Australia's special forces, heading for
the Solomons next week on a peacekeeping mission, have been
warned that one of the area's most feared war lords will target
them.  His name is Harold Keke, a former policeman-turned-war
lord whose reputation bears shades of Rambo, Joseph Conrad's Mr
Kurtz and evangelist Billy Graham.  He is clearly a murderer and
will be an early target for the foreign forces. But his
followers insist he won't give up without a fight.  Finding out
about Keke means a long journey deep inside the near-
impenetrable areas he controls with other rebel leaders like
Stanley Kaoni, known as "The Satan".  One group of newsmen who
went there recently described the terror of villagers and the
welcome that awaits Australian forces. Through a damp dawn mist
and over gut-churning swells, the police patrol boat arrived to
deliver several sacks of rice, 10