[PEN-L:6214] Re: an A-Z of US aggression

["Ricardo Duchesne" <RDUCHESN@xxxxxxxx>]

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>            An A-Z of US aggression
>  >
>  >        By Zanny Begg
>  >
>  >       Angola -- 1975: civil war breaks out after Portugal is forced to
>  >       withdraw. The US backs the right-wing Union for the Total
>  >       Liberation of Angola in its counter-revolutionary war against the
>  >       radical Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. Angola is
>  >       invaded several times by South Africa with covert support by the
>  >       US.
>  >
>  >       Bolivia -- 1967: around 100 US advisers are part of the military
>  >       force which murders Che Guevara in Bolivia.
>  >
>  >       Cuba -- 1899: US occupies with 18,000 marines. 1902: Cuba is
>  >       forced to sign the Platt Amendment, giving the US the orightoe to
>  >       intervene in Cuba's internal affairs at any time. 1906, 1916 and
>  >       1917: US troops invade and occupy Cuba. 1933: US government
>  >       overthrows Cuban government. 1959: Cuban revolutionaries take
>  >       power. 1961: US attempts to invade Cuba to overthrow the
>  >       revolutionary government. 1999: the US still maintains a blockade
>  >       against Cuba and an illegal military base at Guantssnamo.
>  >
>  >       Dominican Republic -- 1965: 4000 US marines invade to
>  >       overthrow a left-wing government.
>  >
>  >       El Salvador -- 1981-92: US backed a right-wing military
>  >       dictatorship in its war against
>  >       the left-wing Farabundo Marto National Liberation Front.
>  >
>  >       Fiji -- 1987: The US offers tacit support to the leaders of the
>  >       military coup against the Fiji Labour Party government.
>  >
>  >       Grenada -- 1983: US forces invade Grenada when conflicts within
>  >       the revolutionary government, including the murder of Prime
>  >       Minister Maurice Bishop, created an opportunity to install a
>  >       pro-US regime.
>  >
>  >       Haiti -- US invades in 1915 and 1918. In 1994, 6000 US marines
>  >       invade Haiti to restore President Aristide to power.
>  >
>  >       Iraq -- 1991: US uses its dominance of the United Nations to
>  >       launch a war for oil profits in the Persian Gulf. At least 200,000
>  >       Iraqi civilians are killed. US-imposed sanctions cause the death of
>  >       more than 1 million people. oNo-fly zonesoe continue to be
>  >       enforced over northern and southern Iraq.
>  >
>  >       Japan -- 1945: US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
>  >       Nagasaki.
>  >
>  >       Kosova -- 1999: the US-led NATO alliance bombs Serbia and
>  >       Kosova.
>  >
>  >       Lebanon -- 1958: 10,000 US marines invade. 1982-84: US
>  >       sends troops to expel Palestine Liberation Organisation fighters
>  >       and Arab rebels.
>  >
>  >       Mexico -- 1914: US troops occupy Vera Cruz province.
>  >
>  >       Nicaragua -- 1927-33: US forces occupy Nicaragua to fight
>  >       revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino's liberation army. 1979: the
>  >       revolutionary movement inspired by Sandino, the Sandinista
>  >       National Liberation Front, overthrows the US-backed Somoza
>  >       dictatorship. Washington backs a covert war against the new
>  >       government. 1990: the Nicaraguan government loses elections
>  >       after years of fighting a war against contras sponsored and funded
>  >       by the US.
>  >
>  >       Oman -- 1962: US oil companies discover oil in Oman. 1965: the
>  >       people of Oman rise up and form the Liberation Front for the
>  >       Occupied Arabian Gulf. The US pressures Iran to intervene. It is
>  >       subsequently revealed that the sultan of Oman had signed a secret
>  >       deal with the Iranian monarchy to aid the anti-guerilla war.
>  >
>  >       Panama -- 1901: After engineering Panama's separation from
>  >       Colombia, Washington takes control of the Canal Zone. 1918: US
>  >       forces invade five cities in Panama. 1964: US troops attack
>  >       protesters who attempt to fly the Panamanian flag in the Canal
>  >       Zone. In December 1989 the US invades Panama, killing 2000
>  >       people.
>  >
>  >       Qatar -- 1995: US stores equipment to supply armoured brigades
>  >       in Qatar.
>  >
>  >       Rwanda -- 1994: the French-backed Interahamwe government
>  >       commits one of the worst massacres in this century. During the
>  >       1980s, the CIA helped funnel arms to the Interahamwe through
>  >       Zaire. US officials now admit that the US tried to cover up the
>  >       extent of the massacre.
>  >
>  >       Somalia -- 1995: under the guise of a ohumanitarian missionoe,
>  >       35,000 US-led troops occupy Somalia. Troops land on a beach
>  >       in Mogadishu to coincide with prime time TV broadcasts.
>  >
>  >       Timor -- 1975: the US dramatically increases its military aid to
>  >       Indonesia, enabling the Indonesian government to invade to quell
>  >       the East Timorese resistance. Until 1991, the US was the main
>  >       provider of military aid and training to the Indonesian regime.
>  >       More than 250,000 East Timorese have died since the Indonesian
>  >       invasion.
>  >
>  >       USSR -- 5000 troops were sent to the Arctic ports in 1919 and
>  >       10,000 to Siberia in 1920 in an unsuccessful attempt to crush the
>  >       Russian Revolution.
>  >
>  >       Vietnam -- 1965: US escalates the war in Vietnam, eventually
>  >       sending in hundreds of thousands of ground troops and conducting
>  >       massive air raids against North Vietnam. The US drops the
>  >       equivalent of 620 Hiroshima bombs over the next 10 years in an
>  >       unsuccessful attempt to crush the Vietnamese revolution.
>  >
>  >       Wake Island -- 1899: US annexes Wake Island in the Pacific
>  >       Ocean.
>  >
>  >       Xieng Khouang -- 1960s: US Special Forces established a base
>  >       in this north-eastern Laos province as part of its intervention in a
>  >       civil war. The Plain of Jars, located in the province was heavily
>  >       bombed by the US.
>  >
>  >       Yugoslavia -- 1992: the UN, with US support, imposes an arms
>  >       embargo. This allows the chauvinists backed by the Serbian
>  >       regime to massacre the multi-ethnic Bosnian forces. US forces
>  >       down jets over Bosnia in 1993.
>
>  >       Zaire -- 1998: one of the world's longest serving dictators,
>  >       Mobutu, backed by the US, falls. During the 1980s, the US
>  >       loaned Mobutu over $40 million a year.
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