-Caveat Lector-
Many of us who have been following this situation on the internet for the
last few months could see this bloodbath coming. How is it that the US
itelligence agencies could not? Perhaps we online buffoons are the new and
best intelligencia to be found in the globe.
In that case, I hereby let all people on the planet know that if you want to
email me for information on what is going on in the world please do so. I
seem to have more information than the Pentagon [yeah right].
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Winkel)
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Timor: US officials plead ignorance (not likely!)
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 01:24:10 -0500 (CDT)
/** reg.easttimor: 3837.0 **/
** Topic: Senior US officials blame Australia for lack of warning -report **
** Written 10:23 AM Sep 16, 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cdp:reg.easttimor **
Subject: Senior US officials blame Australia for lack of warning -report
The Australian
17 Sept 99
US fury at 'our' failings
By DENNIS SHANAHAN
SENIOR US officials blame the Australian Government's lack of warning about
the potential violence in East Timor for Washington's slowness to intervene
in the conflict.
There are claims that until as late as last night confusion continued over
Australia's exact logistical demands for US forces, particularly the use of
helicopters and engineers.
Some US officials say Australia did not pass on full intelligence
information, specifically on the setting up of areas for refugees in West
Timor, and did not formally raise the dangers of the East Timor referendum
during a Prime Minister-to-President meeting in Washington in May.
US diplomatic messages point to an even higher level of "internally
displaced
persons" than Australian estimates, preparing for daily US-sponsored
humanitarian food drops in East Timor for an estimated 350,000 people forced
out of their homes.
Criticism was directed at Defence Minister John Moore's management of the
logistics of the peace force and the Australian Government's inability to
take full advantage of the meeting with President Bill Clinton.
Government sources rejected the claims last night, although they confirmed
some information might have been withheld and that East Timor was not
discussed during the "formal" talks the US President.
Despite Mr Clinton's public support and endorsement for John Howard and
Australia's lead in the UN peace force, there is simmering resentment at the
Prime Minister's public call for US Army "boots on the ground" in East
Timor.
Feeling the sting of Australia's "hectoring" over East Timor, particularly
the Howard Government's public calling on previous alliances, some US
officials are accusing Canberra of lack of foresight and contingency
planning.
Exactly what Australia wants the US to provide in logistic support such as
intelligence, troop transport, engineers and humanitarian support, and what
the US will supply, is still not decided.
US accusations include the charge that Canberra did not fully realise the
depth of the East Timor crisis until early last week, when the Government
decided to more than double Australia's troop commitment to 4500.
US sources are "not taking seriously" a report that Australia's intelligence
briefings to Washington were limited because of the presence of a suspected
Indonesian spy.
US irritation over the East Timor peace force and pressure on Indonesia is
the culmination of weeks of tension in the Australia-US relationship, which
senior ministers have described as "a bit of static".
Last night government sources rejected the US complaints, describing them as
a reaction to Australia's successful demands that Washington pressure
Jakarta
over East Timor.
But the sources did not deny that Australia knew in advance of the East
Timor
vote two weeks ago that areas of West Timor were being organised by the
Indonesian authorities to take refugees.
It was also confirmed that during the official meeting between Mr Howard and
Mr Clinton in Washington that the main topic of discussion was US trade
embargoes on Australian lamb imports and that no discussion of East Timor
was
recorded in the official notes of the meeting.
But senior government sources said there had been a wide-ranging discussion
about Indonesia and East Timor between Mr Clinton and Mr Howard during the
lunch which followed the talks.
The sources denied there had been any significant reduction in
intelligence-sharing between the two nations.
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