CNN's Killings at the Canal: The Army Tapes

[Ben]

You may want to watch the show to see that U.S. troops are in
difficulties.
According to the CNN story, the soldiers caught a man who was
fabricating electronics for IEDs and sent him to jail. His argued that
he is an electronic repairman and won the Iraq's court order to be
freed. The troops who caught him had to give him a hand full of cash
and a letter of apology for his inconvenience.
In 1963, after the U.S. toppled Diem the new government released
thousands of communist agents who were called by the new government
as political prisoners. South Vietnamese police who put them in jail
were punished. After that South Vietnamese police no longer want to
catch high profile communist agents inside religious, student, and
government organizations for fearing of revenge. The insiders then
orchestrated the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975.

[William Black]

Ben wrote:
> You may want to watch the show to see that U.S. troops are in
> difficulties.
> According to the CNN story, the soldiers caught a man who was
> fabricating electronics for IEDs and sent him to jail. His argued that
> he is an electronic repairman and won the Iraq's court order to be
> freed. The troops who caught him had to give him a hand full of cash
> and a letter of apology for his inconvenience.

I imagine that the British government would have loved to have sent the
guy who was selling Trio radio amateur equipment used to trigger IRA
bombs to jail, but they couldn't for exactly the same reason.

It is not a crime to sell perfectly legal electronic equipment to anyone...

> In 1963, after the U.S. toppled Diem the new government released
> thousands of communist agents who were called by the new government
> as political prisoners. South Vietnamese police who put them in jail
> were punished. After that South Vietnamese police no longer want to
> catch high profile communist agents inside religious, student, and
> government organizations for fearing of revenge. The insiders then
> orchestrated the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975.

--
William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
single handed with a quarterstaff.