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Operation Crushing Freedom

syadasti

syadasti

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Apr 15, 2002
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Is this what GWB meant by a war on terror, conspiring with Islamist separatists to divide up a sovereign nation? Why didn't he have a press conference to announce Operation Crushing Freedom?

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/us-backed-philippine-seperatist-shows-wikileaks-085002706.html
Manila (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Purported secret US Embassy files released by the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks showed that Washington had a direct hand in the ill-fated deal to create a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity in 2008 that critics warned could lead to a dismemberment of the Philippines.
Former Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo said that this "disturbing pattern" of American intervention in the Philippines was apparently triggered by a letter sent by then Moro rebel chief Hashim Salamat to US President George W. Bush on Jan. 20, 2003.
Salamat's letter, coursed through then US Ambassador Frank Riccardione in Manila, sought assistance in hammering out an agreement between the Philippine government and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on the creation of a Moro homeland.
Ocampo said that that US interest was clearly seen from the terms of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), which was declared by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in 2008, where the funding for socioeconomic projects in Mindanao would be handed over to the World Bank and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
MOA-AD leaked
Ocampo said the Arroyo administration's peace negotiators apparently were not too keen on the US involvement that they leaked the MOA-AD a few days before it was supposed to be signed in Kuala Lumpur in August 2008 in the presence of then US Ambassador Kristie Kenney.
The chief Philippine negotiator, General Hermogenes Esperon, apparently gave the document to then North Cotabato Governor Manny Pi?ol because the Arroyo administration felt the United States would be getting too much economic power under the deal, said Ocampo. Pi?ol later went to the Philippine Supreme Court to contest the agreement.
"We are therefore appealing to the basic principle of American fairness and sense of justice to use your good offices in rectifying the error that continues to negate and derogate the Bangsamoro People's fundamental right to seek decolonisation under the United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 1514 (XV) of 1960. For this purpose, we are amenable to inviting and giving you the opportunity to assist in resolving this predicament of the Bangsamoro People," Salamat wrote to Bush.
Ocampo said that it was no coincidence that two years after Salamat's plea, the United States held its first official meeting with MILF chairman Murad Ebrahim (as detailed in WikiLeaks 07MANILA3676 cable titled: Muslim Insurgent chairman, Malaysian Facilitator) which was held a year after they met with MILF Vice Chairman for Political Affairs Ghadzali Jafaar (WikiLeaks 06MANILA1747 cable titled: MILF welcomes regular dialogue with US Embassy). Both documents were classified as secret.
US officials have declined comment on the substance or authenticity of the WikiLeaks papers.
Salamat died in 2003 and was replaced by Murad as MILF chief.
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See also: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/opinion/7143-the-us-agenda-in-mindanao

This column was noted in "The Week" magazine, volume 11, issue 533 Sept. 23, 2011.
 
zdubyadubya

zdubyadubya

Turbo Monkey
Apr 13, 2008
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heheh.... MILF chief.

seriously though... what this government is capable of no longer appalls me. I've been desensitized and am just stockpiling ammunition and food/supplies for the stateside revolution.
 
Toshi

Toshi

butthole powerwashing evangelist
Oct 23, 2001
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JohnE said:
GWB really should be held accountable for all the "good" he did in the world. What a fvck that guy is...
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Why do you hate Freedom and America? I thought it was well established that the Baby Jeebus and the Founding Fathers sat down together years ago (while freeing their slaves years before the Civil War, of course) and decided that the Islamists should take over the Philippines and sell their natural resources to God-fearing American corporations. How dare you oppose His will…





:rofl:
 
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