[Peace-discuss] Holiday in Cambodia, now in AfPak

[David Green]

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010100543793/National-news/noam-chomsky-maintains-the-rage.html





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From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 10:57:26 AM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Holiday in Cambodia, now in AfPak

[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]

Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Military mulls cross-border raids into Pakistan

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.

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.

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.

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.
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