First paragraph (Teaser):

"It is the explicit policy of the Indonesian security forces to meet peaceful and unarmed civilian protests with force. Military training from the United States thus directly undermines the democratic movement in Indonesia." - Megawati Soekainoputri, Indonesian dissident.

Rest of the text:

FPF-INTRO: In a surprising and appalling move the US State Department waived all restrictions on U.S. military assistance for Indonesia, only two days after the restrictions became law, a year ago today. (Officially) For the first time in over a decade, the Indonesian military is now eligible to receive Pentagon weapons and training without any specific human rights or other conditions.*

But it's not only the American, English, Portuguese or Japanese scavengers which are to be blamed. The Dutch have ravaged Indonesia since the 1600's, and before the US junta 'took over' in 1946, Dutch troops also killed and tortured to advance the power and profit of the warlords in London and their brethren in the faith in Amsterdam. As one of the Dutch soldiers told it: "I didn't shoot them, but I tortured them and I beat them up. I put them in the sun till they fell down. I was never told to do it - you just grow into it. Isn't it terrible? They didn't tell me to torture people, that was my own doing. I wanted to do my job well."*

It's one of the many black pages in the books of the war profiteers in Holland. Their collaboration with the global warmongers or what also the Dutch troops were used for is hardly ever discussed in Dutch history.* Nowadays - after committing the same inhumane crimes as the US war machine - to cover it up Dutch war criminals investigate Dutch torturers.*

"It is the explicit policy of the Indonesian security forces to meet peaceful and unarmed civilian protests with force. Military training from the United States thus directly undermines the democratic movement in Indonesia." - Megawati Soekainoputri, an Indonesian dissident said. Ex-agents say the CIA also compiled death lists for Indonesians. The US enforced killings in 1965 were part of a massive bloodletting that took an estimated 250,000 lives.*

AP: SIX-HOUR VISIT TO THE SLEEPY CITY OF BOGOR

Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country in the world and most of the population, which was estimated at 245, 452,739 last July, like the rest of the thinking people in the world hates the guts of Bush and his racket. No wonder Bush and his group was too afraid to visit Jakarta with it's more than ten million people and didn't dare to stay any longer than a - by ten thousand heavily armed policemen guarded - six-hour visit to the city of Bogor.

But even if the US bureau AP (American Propaganda) calls Bogor 'sleepy', there were ten thousands of people trying to get at 'Emperor' Bush and protesting his and his junta's deadly actions. They were holding banners that said "Bush is a terrorist!" and "Go to Hell." Bush, his managers and their collaborators are clearly only still alive because of their brainwashed and overpaid body guards. Of whom it is hoped that they will soon start using any brain which may be left and turn their guns around... - HR

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INDONESIAN PROTESTERS TELL BUSH: YOU ARE THE TERRORIST!

By Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press Writer

JAKARTA - 21 November 2006 - US President George Bush shrugged off massive protests against his visit to the world's most populous Muslim nation yesterday as a sign of a healthy democracy, as thousands braved heavy rains to call him a war criminal and a terrorist.

Bush also pledged to work with Indonesia's government to fight Islamic extremists.

[FPF: See 'The Nation' on al Qaeda below.]*

The archipelago is considered an important ally in Washington's war on terror, but public anger is high over US foreign policy in the Middle East and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, seen by many here as attacks on their faith.

Bush and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held "frank" and "sometimes critical" discussions on those issues, the Indonesian leader said, and also talked about ways the US could help fight a spiraling bird flu outbreak, set up a tsunami early warning system and improve education. [FPF: Flue fake? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/wlvlv]

Security was tight amid reports that al-Qaida-linked militants could try to disrupt Bush's six-hour visit to the sleepy city of Bogor, just south of the capital, Jakarta, with thousands of rifle-toting soldiers patrolling the streets, mobile phone signals jammed, and water cannons deployed.

"BUSH IS A TERRORIST!" AND "GO TO HELL."

Demonstrations by Islamic hard-liners, students, housewives and taxi drivers have been staged every day this month and nearly 10,000 turned out to meet the US president on Monday, some holding banners that said "Bush is a terrorist!" and "Go to Hell."

Others called him a war criminal and chanted "Allah Akbar" or "God is great." Students in at least two cities tried to seal off American-owned restaurants, sometimes clashing with police.

But Bush, wrapping up an eight-day Asia tour that also took him to Vietnam and Singapore, was unruffled.
"I applaud a society where people are free to express their opinion," he said at a joint news conference at the Bogor Palace, a graceful presidential retreat surrounded by vast gardens. "People protest. That is a good sign of a healthy society."

Indonesia is a secular nation with 190 million mostly moderate Muslims, but Islamic fundamentalists are quickly gaining a foothold.

The Jemmah Islamiyah militant group has carried out a series of suicide bombings targeting Western interests since 2002, including two on the resort island of Bali and two others in Jakarta. [FPF: false flag ops.]

THE ATTACKS HAVE KILLED MORE THAN 240 PEOPLE, MANY OF THEM FOREIGN TOURISTS.

"American people and Indonesian people have both suffered from acts of violence from extremists," Bush said, holding Indonesia up as an example of how democracy and modernization can provide an alternative to extremism.
"Our nations are determined to take effective action against terror network that plot new attacks against innocent people."

Bush also said he was happy receive advice from Yudhoyono on global issues, including the North Korean and Iranian nuclear disputes. The Indonesian leader called on other nations to do more to help find ways to end the conflict in Iraq, saying it was not just up to Washington to come up with a solution. He also urged Bush to speed up a timeline for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

"The people of Indonesia should know that when their elected leader speaks, other leaders listen, as do I," the US president said.

The White House said it was comfortable with security arrangements despite warnings by Bogor's police chief on Monday that authorities were investigating unconfirmed reports that a man wearing a suicide vest would try to infiltrate protests on Monday. The terror threat never materialized. When Bush last visited in 2003, talks with were focused primarily on Islamic extremists.

HAPPY WITH INDONESIA'S RESPONSE - HUNDREDS OF TERROR SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL - WASHINGTON ENDED AN ARMS EMBARGO LAST YEAR THAT WAS IMPOSED IN 1999 OVER HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS.

Bush this time was seeking to broaden relations with Indonesia, offering help in everything from finding ways to alleviate poverty and develop alternative sources of energy, to battling illegal logging and corruption. "It's important to our nation that we have good, strong relations with Indonesia," said Bush, who left Indonesia Monday night for Hawaii, his last stop before heading home. "It's a relationship that should last for decades to come." Yudhoyono, meanwhile, conducted an elaborate balancing act by welcoming Bush in such grand style.

He needs US help combatting a bird flu outbreak that has killed 56 people - a third of the world's total - and in improving economic growth in his country which remains desperately poor eight years after former dictator Suharto's was ousted amid street riots.

But Indonesia's first directly elected leader risked further angering Muslim parties and his political rivals who already accuse him of being subservient to the West.

[andend] - Independent Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2001491.ece

RELATED:

* US STATE DEPARTMENT - THE US JUNTA'S CONDOLEEZZA RICE C.S. - waived all restrictions on U.S. military assistance for Indonesia. - Url.: http://www.etan.org/news/2005/11waiver.htm

* GROUPS URGE BUSH NOT TO OFFER MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO INDONESIAN PRESIDENT - Url.: http://etan.org/news/2006/11ngo.htm

* THE US ENFORCED KILLINGS in 1965 were part of a massive bloodletting that took an estimated 250,000 lives. - Url.: http://www.namebase.org/kadane.html

* U.S. CRIMINAL HISTORY IN INDONESIA - Url.: http://www.brianwillson.com/awolcrimhist.html

* INDONESIA: BLACK PAGES IN DUTCH HISTORY - Url.: http://war_forgiveness.soundprint.org/HollandEssay.php

* DUTCH WAR CRIMINALS 'INVESTIGATE' DUTCH TORTURERS - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yy2jxh

* INDYMEDIA INDONESIA - JAKARTA - has no critical articles concerning Bush's 6 hour visit in English. - ('Bahasa' - on the right - means 'language') - Url.: http://jakarta.indymedia.org/index.php?topic=&region=&language=en

* THE US JUNTA'S CIA INFO ON INDONESIA - URL.: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/id.html

* THE NATION - ''IS AL QAEDA JUST A BUSH BOOGEYMAN?'' - BBC: 'The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear' - a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp. argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism "is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/acnjy

* MORE USEFUL LINKS - Url.: - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/v9pjs

* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - during more than four decades for international media, as an independent foreign correspondent. Of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab world and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb used by the for profit murdering multinationals and their US junta's war machine, breeds more and armed resistance. Not only among Muslims, as the 'Junta Judasses' claim, but in all 190 countries surrounding the U.S. - War criminals, beware! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y7wr67

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