LATimes: Man Indicted in Phnom Penh Attacks Active in GOP Causes

[Robbien]

# Long Beach accountant Yasith Chhun, whose group is labeled a terrorist organization, raised funds to elect Republicans.

By David Pierson, Times Staff Writer

Yasith Chhun often boasted to newspapers and magazines about masterminding an attack on government buildings in Cambodia and his plans to overthrow the Southeast Asian country's communist regime. The U.S. State Department declared the group he headed, the Cambodian Freedom Fighters, a terrorist organization in 2001.

But that label didn't stop Chhun, 48, from gaining friends among GOP stalwarts, such as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach and the National Republican Congressional Committee, which raises funds for electing Republicans to Congress.

Before his federal indictment this week on charges of plotting to overthrow the Cambodian government, the Long Beach accountant had raised $6,550 for the National Republican Congressional Committee and was invited to sit on the group's Business Advisory Council, which has tens of thousands of members nationwide, said Carl Forti, a spokesman for the committee.

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"At this point, the gentleman hasn't been convicted of anything," Forti said. If he is a terrorist, "it's something we need to look at. Clearly, we wouldn't want any leader of a terrorist organization being members of our business advisory council."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cambodian3jun03,1,3714976.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

[Democat]

1. Deep Throat should get the death penalty, this guy is a good American

The world of the far right.

[MisterP]

2. don't forget, we backed the Khmer Rogue when Vietnam saw their

mistake and removed them.

[NNguyenMD]

3. in Samantha Powers book "A Problem From Hell"

the Carter administration, a colossal mistake I'm certain he regrets, decided not to intervene in an action that would support their recently victorious enemy the North Vietnamese Army. And so they sat on their hands while the Soviet backed Vietnamese government kicked out the Chinese backed Khmer Rouge.

[MisterP]

5. look up Zbigniew Brzezinski, the SoS who replaced Cyrus Vance

[NNguyenMD]

6. wow, you're right it was more than just sitting on their hands I stand

corrected.

I wonder how Carter and Brzezinski sleep at night.

[MisterP]

7. I think it was more Brzezinski than Carter: he always seemed to be in

others' thrall.
My father spoke to him once: a whole plane with thirty people in it, clustered around Carter.

[NNguyenMD]

4. Osama Bin Laden, staunch anti-communist, and backed by a GOP president

as I'm sure Rep. Rorhabacher knows from his personal experience supporting the Taliban...what an astronomical asshole he is.

I hate him with, I hope Jim Brandt gives it another shot as kicking his ass in 2006.