by David Nuttle

Created on: March 08, 2009   Last Updated: March 10, 2009

Over the last decade, some bankers have engaged in proven/documented acts of fraud that may be putting American soldiers at increased risk of being killed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. To understand how and why this harm occurs, it is necessary to first study all the parts to a complex puzzle. These parts are as follows:

Part I Indigenous (Tribal) Support for U.S. Special Operations. Both in Iraq and in Afghanistan, just as in Vietnam, Laos, and other areas, U.S. Special Operations forces (mostly CIA Special Operations & U.S. Army Special Forces personnel) have largely depended on operational support from local tribal populations. In Vietnam, it was the Montagnard tribes making significant sacrifices to help Americans engage in combat against communist Vietnamese forces. In Laos, the Hmong and Tai Dam tribal populations formed the basis of CIA's so-called "Secret War" against North Vietnamese communists. An assortment of tribes in Iraq and Afghanistan has provided most of the support for U.S. Special Operations that are critical to counterinsurgency efforts in those nations. (History of U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations, by Randall Woods, Ph.D.)

Part II The Price Paid by Tribal Participants. When the U.S. ends its military adventures, or misadventures (depending on your point of view), we have generally left most of our tribal allies behind. As a result, our former enemies (whom the tribes helped us fight) are free to take their revenge on the tribes. In the case of Vietnam, the communists have undertaken a gradually escalating campaign of genocide against our old Montagnard allies. In Laos, the communists soon initiated and sustained an aggressive campaign of genocide against the Hmong and Tai Dam. It remains to be seen what price the tribes in Iraq & Afghanistan will pay for helping U.S. forces. (United Nations' area and special reports on genocide.) Part III Tribal Allies Become Political Refugees. When confronted with genocide and certain death, our former tribal allies flee their own homelands as a matter of survival.

These tribesmen then seek safety as political refugees in the U.S. and other friendly nations. As a result, we now have over 10,000 Montagnard, 25,000 Tai Dam, and 270,000 Hmong in the U.S. We also have a number of Somali refugees resulting from U.S. failures in Somalia. At present, and even before the U.S. has withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a number of tribal refugees (from several tribes) who have already been forced

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