nraughlubmuas wrote:
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6721313.stm

US prosecutors have charged nine people with plotting a coup in Laos, in a conspiracy to murder thousands.

The suspects were seized in dawn raids across California following a six-month covert investigation by US police.

Officials say the detained ringleaders include Gen Vang Pao, a prominent member of the ethnic Hmong group who emigrated to the US in the 1970s.

As a Laotian general, he led CIA-backed forces that fought communist guerrillas before they seized power in 1975.

The accused allegedly conspired to buy hundreds of machine-guns, rockets and explosives from US federal agents who were working undercover as arms dealers.

They are said to have sought to spend millions of dollars on weapons to carry out attacks.

Prosecutors said the coup leaders planned to blow up government buildings and kill "thousands of people".

The "Hmong insurgency planned to use AK-47 automatic rifles, Stinger missiles, LAW rockets, anti-tank rockets and other arms and munitions to topple [the] Lao government and reduce government buildings in Vientiane to rubble," a public prosecutor in California said in a statement.

Laos Foreign Ministry spokesman Yong Chanhthalansy said it was "great news" for Laos.

"We hope the United States will prosecute them strictly under the Patriot Act and punish the violators of the law severely," he told the Reuters news agency.

Mr Yong said he hoped the development would improve relations with neighbouring Thailand, whom Vientiane has suspected of turning a blind eye to Hmong militant activity within its borders.

"I am sure that such vigorous investigation will lead to the uprooting of the network of the villains who have caused the most difficulty in bilateral relations between the Lao and Thai governments," he said.

The defendants could face life in prison if found guilty.

A 10th person was arrested but has not been charged.

Capricorn wrote:
Vuag! This is so embarassed.

Yog mas txawjua, hmoob cov old leaders no mas tseem ua tau tej thaj RUAM ua luaj. Xyov li os cas yuav mus ua tau txaj muag ua luaj dhau li os. Muab xav los mas cov hmoob tim ub yuav tsis txhob mus greedy thiab xav ntau es txias txim mus ua thai los sis mus ua nplog neeg ib yam li peb tim no peb twb ua USA citizen li no ces twb tsis muaj tej nyias kev zoo li no. Yog peb cov hmoob tim ub ua tau li no mam peb cov hmoob tim no thiaj li paub pab lawv kom mus tau zoo.

ghost wrote:
Cap..not exactly.

There is a deep secret between the mesKAS and hmong, and this is just one step to open mesKas cov Eyes. Our people are dying everyday in the jungle just because of MesKas what they did 30 years ago and those people are living like hell. They kill our people because we have the heart of the American...is this a good reason why our people should die everyday just because we fought along side with the mesKas. General Vang Pao did something wonderful bringing us to the U.S.a, but he also left behind a monster in Laos that is killing our people since the day he left Laos. It's time for him to do something even if it worths NOthing at all.

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Capricorn wrote:
Vuag! This is so embarassed.

Yog mas txawjua, hmoob cov old leaders no mas tseem ua tau tej thaj RUAM ua luaj. Xyov li os cas yuav mus ua tau txaj muag ua luaj dhau li os. Muab xav los mas cov hmoob tim ub yuav tsis txhob mus greedy thiab xav ntau es txias txim mus ua thai los sis mus ua nplog neeg ib yam li peb tim no peb twb ua USA citizen li no ces twb tsis muaj tej nyias kev zoo li no. Yog peb cov hmoob tim ub ua tau li no mam peb cov hmoob tim no thiaj li paub pab lawv kom mus tau zoo.

katie wrote:
i was surprise when i heard that too... its like posted up on myspace too... i know that vang pao is just helping the hmong people in laos... i still think its crazy for the americans to arrest him and some other fellow hmong people...

txawjua wrote:
When I said, "RUAM", I mean that why did they not do a feasable study of the situation of arm dealing here before actually acting on it. 6 months of planning is not stratagically logistic. Feasable study should have been done on all opening options that are openning on the table.

Ua cas lawv yuav xav tsis txog tiag meskas twb tab tom tsis nyiam cov terrorists no. Cas tseem yuav mus nrog lawv sib tham thiab sib cog lus yuav riam phom. Cov neeg nov xav li cas lawm xwb?