'Superpower Behind' Blasts in Burma

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'Superpower behind' Burma blasts


The government says the terrorists and explosive came from abroad
Burma's government says rebels trained abroad by a "superpower" were behind last week's bombings at three shopping centres in the capital, Rangoon.

Nineteen people are known to have died in the blasts, with 69 injured. The explosives used were not available in the country, and the plot was funded by a "world famous organisation", the military government said.

The junta said it believes the attacks were led by the Thailand-based All Burma Students Democratic Front.

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Even though the minister refused to name the suspected country and organisation, correspondents believe he was referring to the United States and the CIA.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4549109.stm

[bemildred]

1. "Outside agitators" are just everywhere these days. nt

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I've noticed that too

No wonder Bush doesn't give a shit about his poll numbers. They have finally reached their goal of destabilizing the whole world and none of it will matter any more.

[Skidmore]

3. Well, since we're the world's only superpower, so they tell us,

I'd say those correspondents maybe guessed correctly for a change.

[dbonds]

4. Cant be the US

We are innocent of everything and only want to gently spread the flower of 'freedom' :sarcasm:

[spooked911]

5. The US trained some terrorists?????? Gee-- that's just so... hard... to

believe.

Yeah.

That's the ticket.

[Redstone]

6. Uh...Burma? You're actually believing something that

those monsters who run BURMA are saying?

Sorry, folks, that I can't jump on this bandwagon. We have some real problems with our current government in this country, but there are people who are a LOT worse out there.

The genocidal scum who run Burma, for example.

Redstone

[chlamor]

7. Dick Cheney Halliburton & Burma

HALLIBURTON IN BURMA
“We don’t do business in Burma,” claims Halliburton spokesperson Wendy Hall. But while the company may have no current direct investments in Burma, it has participated in a number of energy development projects there, including the notorious Yadana and Yetagun pipelines.


Natural gas deposits, later named the Yadana field, were first discovered offshore near Burma in the Andaman Sea in 1982. Beginning in the late 1980s, the Burmese government sought investors for a pipeline planned from the Yadana field across Burma to Thailand. In 1991, the government reached a preliminary agreement, formalized later, to deliver gas to the Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT). In 1992, Total, a French oil corporation, agreed to develop the field with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE). Unocal, a U.S. oil company, joined the venture in 1993. Finally, the Yadana field consortium –– known as the Moattama Gas Transportation Company –– was incorporated in December 1994. Its stakeholders include Total (31.24 percent), Unocal (28.26 percent), PTT (25.5 percent) and MOGE (15 percent).

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Halliburton failed to respond to repeated requests for comment on these allegations and other issues raised in this article.


Shortly before the election, Dick Cheney admitted on the Larry King Live! show that Halliburton had done contract work in Burma. Cheney defended the project by saying that Halliburton had not broken the U.S. law imposing sanctions on Burma, which forbids new investments in the country. “You have to operate in some very difficult places and oftentimes in countries that are governed in a manner that’s not consistent with our principles here in the United States,” Cheney told Larry King. “But the world’s not made up only of democracies.”

http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2001/01may/may01corp10.html

[Redstone]

8. No surprise he'd be tangled up with them. Is there any horrible

government in the world that Halliburton is NOT in bed with?

How do you suppose the people who work there manage to look at themselves in the mirror? Are they all utterly soulless, like Cheney is?

Redstone

[stillcool]

9. i don't think their images reflect....

but it sure is understandable why these guys need so much money.