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(OP) User ID: 238769 United States 06/09/2007 06:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The only BS here is you pretending to have any intelligence. [link to news.yahoo.com] [link to www.examiner.com] [link to www.earthtimes.org] He whose vengeance upon the enemies of Allah is terrible, and who is most vengeful toward his own ego, which is his greatest enemy. |
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User ID: 249407 Canada 06/09/2007 06:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Laos plot thickens Sacramento, California US investigators now believe that an alleged plot to overthrow the Laos government by arms may have involved a former Wisconsin state senator and even a US congressman, but Hmong icon Vang Pao denied there was any such plan. Many Hmong refugees wonder why they even left Thailand. Vang Pao's lawyer said the general was innocent of all charges after his client's brief appearance in federal court in Sacramento on Tuesday. "General Vang Pao has worked actively to pursue peaceful solutions to the problems in Laos and has disavowed violence," attorney John Balazs told reporters outside the courthouse. Reports from the US said that at a community center in Fresno, dozens of Hmong immigrants who attended a Monday night English lesson fell silent as they absorbed the news. Several later said they felt sick and questioned why they had left their Thai refugee camp for California, if their leader, General Vang Pao, was in jail. "I love my general. He is like my uncle," said a tearful Neng Vang, who regularly attends the nighttime language classes. In contemporary Laos, Hmong people are still subject to detentions and human rights violations, according to the State Department. Many recent immigrants arrive in the US still traumatised by war and decades of persecution, only to find that they are blocked from obtaining asylum or green cards under provisions of the USA Patriot Act, said Sharon Stanley, director of Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries. The Associated Press reported that the unnamed US congressman, as well as the California Highway Patrol known as CHP, apparently were unwitting parties that Hmong conspirators hoped to use to further their plans, according to court documents and interviews Tuesday with investigators on the case, AP reported. A sworn affidavit from an undercover agent states that "probable cause exists to believe" that former Wisconsin state Senator Gary George was among those involved in the conspiracy. "There is going to be a wealth of information we're going to be following up on," said Nina S. Delgadillo, a special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "There may be other defendants - that's a strong possibility." George has not been arrested or charged. Lo Cha Thao, 34, of Clovis, who once worked as an aide to the senator, was one of 10 people charged Monday in federal court in Sacramento. The AP reports that George's attorney, Alex Flynn of Milwaukee, said the evidence in the indictment does not implicate his client. "Gary George denies any allegations as defamatory and has as much interest in seeing the government of Laos overthrown as he does in the Klingons taking over the Starship Enterprise," Flynn told The Associated Press late Tuesday. "These allegations are preposterous." Of course they are. [link to www.bangkokpost.com] I thought I'd beat the inevitibility of death to death just a little bit. |
AL-M (OP) User ID: 238769 United States 06/09/2007 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | where is Mr bullshitter....eating crow? -------------- Loose tongues foil 'Laos plot' It was a motley crowd of would-be Rambos, "Neo Homs", and a famous former general bent on overthrowing the communist government of Laos, US officials say. But the revolutionaries were allegedly tripped up by their own loose tongues before they even finished their spicy soup at a Thai restaurant in California. - Richard S Ehrlich |
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