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To: Lane3 who wrote (43976)	2/11/2002 10:46:56 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Funny thing about terrorism. There's this list I dug up recently, not having paid all that much attention at the time it was generated. Most of the events and incidents don't have body counts attached, but one sticks out: 1965: INDONESIA. Organize campaign of propaganda to overthrow Sukarno government, and precipitate conditions leading to massacre of more than 500,000 members of Indonesian Communist Party, in order to eliminate opposition to new Suharto government. Successful. pw1.netcom.com (that's from Appendix I, Timeline of CIA Operations , in case the internal bookmark part of the link doesn't work) Buried elsewhere in that list are some passing references to the assassination of Lumumba and the installation of Mobutu, which certainly helped the Heart of Darkness emerge into benevolent light of Western Civilization. Given the long shadow of King Leopold's ghost, the Congolese shouldn't have expected much better. Moral high ground is easy to claim by assertion, but sometimes the claims look a little dubious when correlated with the historical record.

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