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Politics : CONSPIRACY THEORIES

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To: sea_urchin who wrote (20)1/17/2005 3:36:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (1) of 418
 
Re: By the same token you may as well say that...

...the nuclear tsunami has laid South East Asia open to the US protection racket --clue:

[The Indonesian defense minister,] Mr. Sudarsono sought to remove one possible irritant in relations between the United States and Indonesia by pulling back from his government's announcement last week that foreign militaries assisting the relief operations would have to leave by March 26, the three-month anniversary of the tsunami.

The comments had roiled some in the United States Congress, who viewed the remarks as an ungrateful reply to a surge of emergency American relief aid, particularly from Navy helicopters flying into remote coastal areas from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and other ships off the western coast of Sumatra.

Today, Mr. Sudarsono insisted that the March 26 date was not a deadline for foreign militaries, but rather a target by which the Indonesian government would try to improve and accelerate its ability to oversee all relief efforts. "Foreign military operations providing relief and rehabilitation will be allowed to continue, albeit on a reduced scale," he said.
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nytimes.com
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