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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: The Archive Team Just In Time Grabs

The hardest part about our transient, shallow world wide web is the terrifying swiftness in which data disappears. To this end, Archive Team members have often bravely strapped on miner's helmets and flashlights, dove into the flaming wreckage of a dying site, and grabbed a copy for all of time. Some of these rescues, consisting of what we could grab, are being saved here.

Please Note: Some of these items were not burning as brightly or recently as others - they might be merely considered "off-site backups" of sites or collections, but in most cases the original data is now gone.

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20130830220148/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/29/business.politics1

FAQ: The investigation

The Guardian, Tuesday 28 November 2006

What is the Serious Fraud Office investigating?

The SFO, aided by the MoD police fraud squad, is investigating a worldwide system of offshore secret payments by BAE Systems. The money was allegedly channelled through a company codenamed "Red Diamond". The sums involved may total as much as £1bn. The inquiry began in 2004, when documents from a company of travel agents suggested BAE was running a £60m slush fund to bribe Saudi generals. But the inquiry has since spread much wider.

Are these types of payments illegal?

In 2002, Britain brought in legislation outlawing corrupt payments to foreign politicians. The SFO wants to find out whether cash has been paid to clinch arms deals since that date. One strand of the inquiry is looking at military sales between BAE and Saudi Arabia, known as al-Yamamah - the Arabic word for dove. This is the UK's biggest ever arms deal and involved the delivery of warplanes.

Is the SFO inquiry in danger of jeopardising British jobs?

BAE signed a contract earlier this year, initially worth £6bn, to sell the Saudi regime 72 Eurofighters which would be part-manufactured near Preston. The company now claims that Saudi Arabia may pull out if police investigations continue but there is no confirmation this will happen. Critics say Britain has no real economic need to rely on arms sales to corrupt and despotic regimes.

As well as the Saudi connection, which deals are the SFO looking at?

Chile It is alleged secret commissions may have gone to Gen Augusto Pinochet, the former head of state accused of torturing opponents. BAE has sold surplus frigates and other arms to Santiago.

Romania The BAE agent Barry George has been raided by the SFO, investigating £7m of commissions paid on another frigates deal. Adrian Nastase, the then Romanian premier, faces separate bribery charges in Bucharest.

Czech Republic Czech police say bribery attempts occurred during a deal to lease BAE-Saab Gripen fighters, and the US protested to Britain at the time.

South Africa Another BAE agent, the tycoon John Bredenkamp, was raided by the SFO, examining alleged commission payments in a £1.5bn deal to sell Hawk warplanes .

Tanzania An investigation has been opened into a Downing Street-backed deal to sell a BAE military air traffic control radar to one of Africa's poorest countries. It is alleged commissions of more than 29% may have been paid into Swiss banks.