BUT THEY'RE OUR TERRORISTS - Oread Daily Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - BUT THEY'RE OUR TERRORISTS Will the US bomb California? Can we expect special forces on the ground in Orange County? I suppose if the US is serious in its War on Terrorism such should be happening soon. Orange County is the home of the "Government of Free Vietnam (GFV)." Free Vietnam consists of former South Vietnamese soldiers and leaders living abroad in the U.S., Europe and Southeast Asia. The group has created training camps in the jungle along the Thai-Laotian border near Vietnam and has a budget of about $1 million a year. Membership estimates by the group range from 2,000 to 200,000. Just days before September 11, raids in the Philippines resulted in the arrests of several suspected terrorists associated with the GFVand bomb making components. Authorities in Manila said the Vietnamese exiles and their Japanese cohort planned to bomb the Vietnamese Embassy there to coincide with Vietnam's National Day. But far beyond the aborted bombing, the group was reportedly involved in a bigger plot to wreak chaos in Metro Manila. The GFV denied that the apartment raided in Manila was a terrorist hang out. Instead, it said, "The apartment in Manila's San Juan suburb is our liaison office in Philippine. It is NOT a terrorist cell as suspected by the press. The seizure described by the police such as "improvised explosive devise with a booster detonating cord and components..." including bags of ammonium nitrate, rolls of wires with improvised blasting caps, a 12-volt battery, relays, cellular phones, etc." are our technical material which have been used solely in research for possible upcoming operations in Vietnam." That's a good one. A sister Cambodian group is also based in California. That group carried out an armed attack in the middle of Phnom Penn earlier this year. Cambodia has issued a warrant for one member, Chhun Yasith's, arrest and demanded that the U.S. find, detain and extradite the Cambodian American and other exiles involved in the movement. Anything less, it suggests, would be superpower hypocrisy. "We expect that America will recognize one standard for justice, not two," says Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith. Sources: Asian Week, Manila Times, Time/Asia, GFV * The Oread Daily provides daily (Monday-Friday) progressive, left, anti-racist, anarchist, commie, activist, environmental, Marxist, revolutionary, etc. news and information from around the US and around the world. The Oread Daily was a mimeographed sheet that came out first in the summer of 1970 in Lawrence, Kansas. It was irreverent, radical, spicy, revolutionary et. al. Now, three decades later it returns. To view the entire Oread Daily, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OreadDaily ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytas-11.27.01-05:03:24-28710