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In the weeks that followed, experts believe that a US military unit with special skills was
sent to Panama. These skills involved the ability to provoke attacks. As a result one American
was killed in Panama and a US serviceman and his wife were threatened. President George Bush
Senior responded by ordering the invasion of Panama.
The invasion was in a heavily populated urban area; artillery and air strikes were called
in. According to Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, there is a high probability that
claims made by civilians regarding the use of experimental weapons are true. Ramsey also stated
that there was “an excessive use of force beyond any possible justification”. Twenty thousand
Panamanians lost their homes; most were burnt to the ground. Although the US claims that only
250 civilians lost their lives, the United Nations estimates that 2,500 civilians died and others
estimates run as high as 4,000.
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Whatever the death count is, this was an unjustified use of force
no different than that of the 911 attack on New York. I personally spoke with a veteran who was
part of the invasion force and he has verified many of the actions of the military as documented
in The Panama Deception.
In his memoirs, Noriega says that the reason for the US invasion of Panama was over the
issue of extending operation of the School of the Americas in Panama. This is a US run military
school that reportedly trains South American revolutionaries. The US wanted a 15 year extension
on the school and Noriega refused. He states:
As determined and proud as we were to follow through with Torrijos's
legacy, the United States didn't want any of this to happen. They wanted an
extension or a renegotiation for the installation [School of the Americas], saying
that with their growing war preparations in Central America, they still needed it.
But that School of the Americas was an embarrassment to us. We didn't want a
training ground for death squads and repressive right-wing militaries on our
soil.
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(Peter Eisner, The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega, America's Prisoner, 1997,
p. 114, Random House, N.Y.)
Concerning the unprecedented US invasion of Panama, author David Harris, in his book
Shooting the Moon: The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike Any Other, Ever, writes:
“Of all the thousands of rulers, potentates, strongmen, juntas, and warlords the Americans have
dealt with in all corners of the world, General Manuel Antonio Noriega is the only one the
Americans came after like this. Just once in its 225 years of formal national existence has the
United States ever invaded another country and carried its ruler back to the United States to face
trial and imprisonment for violations of American law committed on that ruler's own native
turf.”
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Yugoslavia
The communist leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, was a brutal dictator who held the
Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and other lesser ethnic minorities together as the nation of Yugoslavia.
During his reign his regime is responsible for the murder of over one million people. The
Yugoslavian death count is estimated at 655,000 during WW II and 517,000 between 1945 and
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