From: freemanaz@aol.com (unknown)
To: azpeace@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [azpeace] Washington's New Rules of Engagement
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 19:00:42 EST


Washington's New Rules of Engagement

by Garry M. Leech

In January 2003, up to 100 U.S. army Special Forces will arrive in
Colombia to provide counterinsurgency training to Colombian troops. The
U.S. soldiers are being dispatched as part of a $94 million
counterterrorism aid package intended to protect an oil pipeline used by
Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum. The September 11 terrorist
attacks against the United States allowed the Bush administration to
escalate the U.S. military role in Colombia to previously unimaginable
levels under the
guise of the war against terrorism. The posting of U.S. troops to a
mostly rebel-controlled region will dramatically increase the
possibility of U.S. soldiers being killed. Such an occurrence would then
provide the Bush administration with the justification it needs to
directly involve U.S. combat troops in the war against Colombia's
leftist guerrillas.

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