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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> C. G. Estabrook <galliher@illinois.edu><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@anti-war.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, December 21, 2010 10:57:26 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Peace-discuss] Holiday in Cambodia, now in AfPak<BR></FONT><BR>[President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia (1969-73) entered the Watergate proceedings only marginally: not because hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were slaughtered in the course of a major war crime - but because Congress was not properly notified, so that its privileges were infringed, and even this was considered too slight an infraction to enter the final charges [against Nixon]. From 1969 to 1973, in an illegal war, the United States dropped 2.75 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The Allies dropped just over 2 million tons of bombs during all
of World War II. Cambodia may be the most heavily bombed country in history. --CGE]<BR><BR>Tuesday, December 21, 2010<BR>Military mulls cross-border raids into Pakistan<BR><BR>Senior U.S. military officials are calling for Special Forces teams to launch operations in Pakistan's tribal areas, in order to disrupt the network of terrorist safe havens that exist there. The new push for this aggressive measure has been spurred by officials' desire to show progress in the war in Afghanistan before President Barack Obama's July 2011 deadline for beginning the withdrawal of U.S. troops.<BR><BR>Some U.S. military leaders hope that cross-border raids could be used to capture high-ranking insurgent leaders, resulting in a significant boost of intelligence regarding Taliban operations in Pakistan.<BR><BR>Even without permission to send troops into Pakistan, the U.S. military has found ways to disrupt terrorist safe havens. CIA drone strikes on Pakistan's tribal
areas have increased dramatically during the last several months. There have been more than 50 such strikes since September, compared to only 60 during the rest of the year.<BR><BR>The CIA has also been training Afghan militias to carry out missions in Pakistan. In one case, a CIA-backed militia entered Pakistani territory and destroyed a Taliban ammunition cache.<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Peace-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A><BR><A href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target=_blank>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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