_________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ---------- From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 05:13:20 -0000 To: "Peoples War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal: US To Provide Choppers To Fight Terrorism - Xinhua XINHUA - Peoples Republic of China U.S. to Provide Nepal With Choppers to Fight Terrorism ======================================= KATHMANDU, November 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Stated has promised to supply Nepal with 10 fully-armed helicopters to fight terrorism, The Kathmandu Post quoted a senior Nepali official as saying Monday. Minister of State for Home Devendra Raj Kandel Sunday told a mass rally held in Pokhara, some 200 km southwest of Kathmandu, that the U.S. government had committed itself to supplying 10 modern helicopters to help the Nepali government counter terrorism in Nepal, the English daily said. "Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in America, the United States is committed to eliminating terrorism from the globe and its promise of supplying Nepal the helicopters is part of that goal," Kandel said. According to the state minister, the 10 fully equipped helicopters which are slated to arrive in Nepal soon will be flown by either the regular police or the newly formed Armed Police Force. The Nepal Police has often been criticized for spending huge amount of money to charter choppers in its campaigns against guerrillas insurgents, who have been engaging themselves in armed activities since 1996 in order to establish a republican state instead of the current constitutional monarchy. About 1,800 people, including policemen, guerrillas members and civilians, have been killed in police-guerrillas clashes since 1996. Enditem KOMINFORM note: There are communist rebels in Nepal. Not "terrorists".
