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September 18
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Ray McGovern
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The New Iraqi Economy: Baghdad's Thriving Kidnapping Industry
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The State of Working America: an Autopsy of the American Dream
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Patrick Cockburn
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Blanking Out Dissent
Joanne Mariner
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Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
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Gary Leupp
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Stan Goff
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Patrick Cockburn
The
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/ 12, 2004
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Fred Gardner
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Saul Landau
When Our Assassins Go Free
Jennifer Van Bergen
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Perhaps This Time We're the Silent Majority
Mike Whitney
Fallujah: an Iraqi Beslan?
Frederick B.
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Their Sons Perished in the Flames, But Not Their Faith
Mickey Z.
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Ron Jacobs
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Greg Moses
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Benjamin Dangl
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An Interview with Leslie Cagan
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Patrick Cockburn
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Alan Farago
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Doug Giebel
Karl Rove's Terror Playbook
Mike Whitney
Bob Graham's Political Tsunami
David Domke
God's
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September 9,
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Joe Bageant
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Ed Kinane
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Peter Bohmer
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Todd May
The Emerging Case for a Single-State Solution
Jeremy Scahill
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Joshua Frank
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Fran Shor
The Crisis in Public Dissent: When Protest is Considered a Terrorist
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Patrick Cockburn
Welcome
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Liberty Street Protest: No to War at Ground Zero
September 8,
2004
Patrick Cockburn
This
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Dave Lindorff
Bush Confuses; Kerry Mute: Spinning 1000 Dead
Bulent Gokay
Russian and Chechnia After Beslan
Lisa Viscidi
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Niranjan Ramakrishnan
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Mike Whitney
Afghanistan: American's Drug Colony
Stan Goff
Body
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Bush and the Love Doctors
September 7,
2004
Diane Christian
Hostage Tactics: a Game of Mortal Poker
Joshua Frank
Greens
Unravel from Within
Patrick Cockburn
Fallujah
Erupts Again: US Death Toll in Iraq Nears 1000
Ron Jacobs
Bush and Putin: "We're Not Girlie Men"
Chris Floyd
Cry Havoc: Bush's Own Personal Janjaweed
Dr. Carol Wolman
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John Ross
The
Politics of Darkness North / South
September 6,
2004
Alexander Cockburn
An
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Ralph Nader
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Working People
Lee Sustar
What's Driving the Attack on Pensions?
Kathleen and
Bill Christison
Dual
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September 4-5,
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Alexander Cockburn
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Ted Honderich
The
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Sasan Fayazmanesh
The
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Douglas Valentine
What the World Should Know About Guantanamo
Patrick Cockburn
New Iraqi Police State Flexes Its Muscles
Gary Leupp
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Fred Gardner
Pot Shots: the Hempstead T-Shirt
William A.
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The
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Dave Zirin
Kobe Bryant and the Price of Freedom
John Chuckman
The Day the World Ended
Karyn Strickler
God Save the Endangered Species Act
Vanessa Jones
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Mike Whitney
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Mark Donham
Dear John (Kerry): Start Explaining and Fast
Mickey Z.
McBypass Nation: Feeling Clinton's Pain
Alan Farago
Can the Everglades be Fixed?
Poets' Basement
Landau and Albert
September 3,
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Jeffrey St.
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High
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Rahul Mahajan
Bush's RNC Speech: an Annotated Response
Carl Estabrook
The
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Joshua Frank
The Florida of the Northwest: Oregon Dems Sabotage Nader Again
Gary Leupp
Music to My Ears: Sunday's March
James Hollander
Deja Vu in Manhattan: Assisted Political Suicide?
Mark Engler
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Jesse Sharkey
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Jane Stillwater
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Stephen Green
Serving
Two Flags: the Bush Neo-Cons and Israel
September 2,
2004
Jeffrey St.
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High
Plains Grifter: Part 3: More Pricks Than Kicks
Max Gimble
Et Tu, Menchu? Extrajudicial Killings and Clandestine Graves
in Guatemala
James Petras
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Brauchli
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Todd Chretien & Jessie
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Jack Random
Spite and Venom Day: the Turncoat and the Profiteer
Alan Maass
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Christa Allen
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Dave Lindorff
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Josh Frank
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John L. Hess
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Andrew Wilson
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Jeffrey St.
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High
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Joseph Nevins
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Matt Vidal
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Dave Lindorff
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September 18 / 19, 2004
"Who are
the Terrorist Here?"
Ashcroft
in Indonesia
By
CONN HALLINAN
Behind a recent, highly controversial
indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Bush administration
is maneuvering to revive military ties with the Indonesian Army
(TNI), one of the world's most oppressive institutions.
In late June, U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft convinced a federal grand jury to indict
Anthonuis Wamang for a 2002 ambush in West Papua that killed
two Americans, an Indonesian, and wounded 12 others. The indictment
identifies Wamang as a commander in the Free Papua Movement (OPM)
and, despite strong evidence to the contrary, clears the Indonesian
military of charges that it engineered the incident.
Human rights groups, long-time
observers of Indonesia, and even the Indonesian police say the
indictment ignores evidence tying the ambush to the most notorious
unit of the TNI, Kopassus. Indeed, rights groups charge that
Wamang works for Kopassus, not the OPM.
The OPM has been fighting a
low-key rebellion since Indonesia--with U.S. support--short-circuited
a UN election and engineered the seizure of West Papua in 1969.
West Papua is the western half of New Guinea and Indonesia's
eastern-most province.
The U.S. has a long relationship
with the TNI, dating back to the 1965 coup that overthrew President
Sukarno and led to the murder of over 500,000 Communists and
leftists. According to declassified U.S. documents, American
intelligence helped finger some of the coup's victims. The U.S.
also supported Indonesia's violent takeover of East Timor in
1975.
The Bush administration is
currently pushing Congress to fund an International Military
Education and Training (IMET) program for Indonesia, but Congress
is holding up the monies because of Indonesia's resistance to
seriously investigate the 2002 ambush.
The U.S. first restricted Indonesia's
IMET funds following the 1991 massacre of 270 civilians in Santa
Cruz , East Timor. All military ties were suspended in 1999 when
TNI-organized civilian death squads ravaged East Timor following
that country's independence vote. IMET funds were suspended after
the 2002 West Papua ambush.
While the TNI blamed the OPM
for the attack, not even the local police agree. Two months after
the Aug. 31 ambush, a police report found that the OPM was an
unlikely suspect because the group "never attacks white
people." It concluded that TNI involvement "was a strong
possibility."
At the time, U.S. officials
concurred with the charge of TNI involvement. A "senior
(Bush) administration official" told Raymond Bonner of the
New York Times, that "there is no question there
was military involvement. There is no question it was premeditated."
According to the Australian
newspaper, The Age, "The initial police report on
the attack concluded: 'There is a strong possibility' that the
attack was 'perpetrated by members of the Indonesian National
Force Army, however, it still needs to be investigated further'."
But further investigation may be problematical. According to
The Age, "Indonesian police investigators were threatened,
evidence appeared to be planted, and the crime scene appeared
to be interfered with."
Two vans were ambushed leaving
Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg mine, the largest gold and copper
mine in the world. The attacker, or attackers, used M-16s, a
weapon that has never been associated with the OPM, many of whose
members use bows and arrows. OPM spokesperson John Ondowame denied
any involvement in the attack. "I can say with assurance
that the incident did not involve the Free Papua Movement,"
he told the press in Melbourne, Australia.
It would hardly be surprising
that the TNI, in particular Kopassus, would engineer such an
incident. In 2001 seven low-level members of the unit were jailed
for murdering Papuan independence leader, Theys Eluay.
The seven are appealing their
two to three year sentences which, given the track record of
such appeals for war crimes committed in East Timor, are likely
to be overturned. Out of 18 Indonesians charged with war crimes
for their behavior in East Timor, Indonesian courts acquitted
12, and convicted six. Of the six, four had their sentences overturned,
and one had his sentence halved. The one civilian charged, the
former governor of East Timor, was sentenced to three and a half
years. The minimum for such crimes is 10 years.
In the meantime, Indonesia
has ignored the UN-sponsored court in East Timor, which has charged
almost 400 people with war crimes, including former presidential
candidate, General Wiranto. Indonesia has refused to hand over
any of the defendants.
Besides discrediting the OMP,
the military had a financial stake in the ambush. Freeport McMoRan
paid the TNI $10.7 million in protection money from 2000 to 2002,
and provided military officers with free airline tickets. The
company stopped the payments shortly before the ambush because
a new American corporate responsibility law required disclosure
of such payments. One intelligence analyst told Bonner it was
"extortion, pure and simple."
But the stakes are much bigger
than bribes and free airline tickets.
Re-starting the lucrative Indonesia-U.S.
arms pipeline and roping in a potential ally against what some
in the Bush administration see as their future competitor--China--overshadows
greasing the palms of local Indonesian military commanders. Indonesia
could be an important link in the chain of bases and allies the
U.S. is forging in Asia. Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and
India have already signed up for the U.S. anti-missile system.
The Bush administration says it is directed at North Korea, but
the Chinese are convinced it targets their small missile fleet.
The U.S. Defense Department
(DOD) has lobbied to end the ban on arms sales and cooperation
with the Indonesian military, in spite of the latter's horrendous
human rights record in the rebellious provinces of Aceh, the
Malukus, East Timor, and Papua. "I think it is unfortunate
that the U.S. today does not have military-to-military relationships
with Indonesia," says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld's right-hand man,
DOD Assistant Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, argues, "More contact
with the West and the United States and moving them in a positive
direction is important both to support democracy and support
the fight against terrorism." Wolfowitz was Ambassador to
Indonesia during the Reagan administration.
But others argue the opposite.
According to Karen Orenstein,
Washington coordinator for the East Timor Action Network (ETAN),
"History demonstrates that providing training and other
assistance only emboldens the Indonesian military to violate
human rights and block accountability for past injustices."
The Indonesian military's "worst
abuses," says Ed McWilliams, former State Department political
counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta from 1996-99, "took
place when we (the U.S.) were most engaged."
"Abuses" is a mild
term for what the TNI has inflicted on places like East Timor
and Aceh.
According to the UN, Indonesia's
24-year occupation of East Timor resulted in 200,000 deaths,
a higher kill ratio than Pol Pot managed in Cambodia. Following
the vote for independence, TNI-sponsored militias went on a rampage,
killing up to 1,500 people, forcing another 250,000 into concentration
camps in West Timor, and destroying 70% of East Timor 's infrastructure.
In May, 2003, Indonesia broke
a cease-fire with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), sent in 40,000
troops and 10,000 police, and sealed off the oil-rich province
of Sumatra from journalists, human rights groups, and even international
aid organizations like UNICEF, the Red Cross, and the World Health
Organization. Much of Aceh's civilian population has been moved
into strategic hamlets and, according to Amnesty International,
there is "widespread torture of detainees in both military
and police custody."
As in East Timor, the military,
with the blessing of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri,
has organized "civilian defense groups that are little more
than death squads." According to the government-run National
Commission on Human Rights, the military has been recruiting,
training, and arming such groups, which are then unleashed on
the population.
The TNI has also been accused
of aiding the right-wing Muslim organization, Laskar Jihad, which
is associated with widespread violence in Maluku and is increasingly
active in West Papua.
Ashcroft's indictment has stirred
outrage among human rights groups, both in West Papua and the
U.S.
An Aug. 4 joint press statement
from three Papuan rights groups, ELSHAM, LEMASA and YAHAMAK,
expressed "grave concern over the actions of U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft" and accused Ashcroft of "suppressing
evidence" that the groups had supplied FBI agents investigating
the ambush.
The groups say that Wamang,
the target of the indictment, was "a business partner of
Kopassus." The groups also charge that the Indonesian military
"routinely uses civilians to stage attacks," and that
the former Police Chief of West Papua , General Made Pastika,
concluded the TNI was behind the attack. According to the three
groups, none of this evidence was presented to the grand jury.
In his statement announcing
the indictment, Ashcroft said, "The U.S. government is committed
to tracking down and prosecuting terrorists who prey on innocent
Americans in Indonesia and around the world. Terrorists will
find they cannot hide from U.S. justice."
But according to a 2002 study
by the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the TNI's links to groups
like Laskar Jihad has made it "a major facilitator of terrorism."
As John Miller of ETAN points
out, the Indonesian military carries out and sponsors terrorism
throughout the huge archipelago. "Who," he asks, "are
the terrorists here?"
Conn Hallinan is a foreign policy analyst for Foreign
Policy in Focus and a Lecturer in Journalism at the University
of California, Santa Cruz.
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