In April 2000, Dany Kane, an undercover agent for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police working within the Quebec Hells Angels, reported that one of the Hells Angels' leaders, David "Wolf" Carroll, had at first given orders for the Loners to all be killed, with the plot later cancelled because too many people knew about it. In a sort of reverse take-over, Frédéric "Fred" Faucher, the president of the Rock Machine, arranged to have his club absorbed into the Bandidos in a bid to "internationalize" the Quebec Biker War, and to prevent the Hells Angels from attacking the Rock Machine, by raising the possibility of causing a biker war in the United States. The American leadership of the Bandidos were not keen on Faucher's attempt to involve them in the Quebec Biker War, and the Rock Machine were sponsored into the Bandidos by the French and Swedish branches of the club, not the American one. A British policeman told the journalist Patrick Lejtenyi that European outlaw bikers greatly respect American and Canadian outlaw bikers as being more violent than themselves, and are always happy when outlaw bikers from North America pay them attention. The Quebec Biker War, which killed 162 people between 1994–2002, making it easily the bloodiest biker war of all time, had given Canadian outlaw bikers a "cool" reputation with European outlaw bikers that made them the equals of American outlaw bikers. At the same time, the Loners had aligned themselves with the Rock Machine, holding a party in Toronto in June 2000 that was attended by dozens of "machinists", as the Rock Machine are known in outlaw biker circles. In the summer of 2000, Stadnick made an offer to most of the Ontario biker gangs that was too sweet for them to refuse; namely they could join the Hells Angels as "full patch" members without having to go through the "hang-around" and "prospect" stages, provided they did so by the end of the year.