Beijing and Jakarta inked a contract Sept. 26 to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Tangguh field in Indonesia's West Papua province to China's Fujian province. The deal, signed during the first Indonesia-China Energy Forum in Bali, is valued by Jakarta at $8.5 billion. The two countries also signed at least six other memoranda of understanding covering hundreds of millions of dollars in oil, mining and power-sector deals
Beyond the energy sector, Indonesia and Beijing also are trying to expand political and military ties. In the past month, Li Peng, chairman of China's National People's Congress, and Defense Minister Chi Haotian both have visited Jakarta. During Chi's visit, the two nations began discussions about possible Chinese arms sales to Indonesia, and Indonesian officials welcomed the idea as a way to diversify their suppliers and reduce the problems caused by international sanctions.
Ex-loved: Saddam Hussein got attendance of Osama is shop
Washington, 8 September (AFP) - which Iraqi head of state Saddam Hussein has after reports of a ex-loved at least once attendance of the presumed terrorist leader Osama am shop gotten. She was witness, as if are shop in the middle of the 80's one of Saddam Husseins palaces visited, said Parisoula Lampsos the US television station ABC in an interview, which should be radiated on Thursday. The oldest son of Saddam Hussein, Oday, reported it of a further meeting of the two men about ten years later. The Iraqi head of state has Osama is given shop on this occasion money, said the 54-Jaehrige. Also to the Palestinians money flowed.
09/04/2002 10:34:57 PM PDT
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reminds us of Abraham Lincolns words
"Our reliance against tyranny is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors.Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
Abraham Lincoln, speech during campaign against Stephen A. Douglas for seat in U.S. Senate, September 1858