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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia wants US to stay away from Asia's anti-terror fight |
| 2006-06-02 |
| JAKARTA: Indonesia will tell the United States not to meddle in regional anti-terrorism efforts when US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visits next week, Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono said on Thursday. Rumsfeld is due in Indonesia from June 6-8 and was to discuss security in the piracy-prone Malacca Straits, military cooperation and anti-terrorism efforts with senior Indonesian officials, Sudarsono said. "We will impress on the United States that the fight against terrorism in Indonesia and other ASEAN countries should be handled by respective countries and not based on the desire of the United States," he said. "We will tell the United States that fighting terrorism using their ways will only be detrimental to the United States because it will only create more anger and antipathy against America." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Message from fox to farmer: Stay out of the hen house. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-06-02 19:42 |
| #4 Im sure in private theyre eager for weapons and intell. To pass along to the jihadis. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-06-02 10:51 |
| #3 rhetoric for the street. Im sure in private theyre eager for weapons and intell. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-06-02 09:08 |
| #2 If the Regional authorities would do the job, there would be no reason for Rumsfeld or anyone in the USA to get involved. The US would prefer that local authorities handle these problems that have worldwide implications, themselves. Unfortunately, seldomly does this happen, more due to political pressures than any duty driven factors. The writer is a US citizen with 30 years of experience living and working overseas and has never been a US Government employee. |
| Posted by: Patriot 1 2006-06-02 07:47 |
| #1 Fat chance the USA will obey - Indonesia unfortunately has a long history of quietly repressing non-Muslim ethnic groups or communities, and has made no qualms about desiring to unify wid the Philippines and other regional areas under Islam. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-02 02:03 |