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| Southeast Asia |
| NPA cheesed at U.S., threatens attacks... |
| 2002-08-18 |
| Communist rebels in the Philippines will attack American troops and act against U.S. business interests if U.S. forces join the local military's fight against them, a rebel spokesman said. "Revolutionary and progressive forces must act to block the aggressive war even before it is launched and thwart it the moment U.S. troops enter the Philippines," communist party spokesman Gregorio Rosal said in a statement. The statement followed moves by the U.S. government last week to put the party and its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), on a terrorist blacklist under a law allowing Washington to block any of their U.S. assets. They're not the government. Check. They have guns and bombs. Check. They use them against civilians when they feel like it. Check. They certainly seem like terrorists. I'm just not sure if it's politic at this moment to make moves against them — the present fight is against the guys with the turbans. I think, in fact, that the commie insurgencies are going to die off, albeit slowly. Why open a second front when the first one's dangerous enough? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |