# 89 Indonesia fears U.S. invasion.
Why shouldn't they fear a U.S. invasion? We're invading everybody else, or planning to. They have a large Muslim population. They would be easy pickings right after the tsunami. And we've done it to them before.
http://search.csmonitor.com/2005/0114/p06s01-woap.html
Indonesia tightens access to Aceh
Aid groups are protesting registration demands.
The USS Lincoln left Indonesian waters on Wednesday.
By Tom McCawley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA – The devastation wreaked on Aceh's coast by the Dec. 26 tsunami was so great that Indonesia's fears of foreign intervention in the war-torn province were briefly swept away. Aceh, which lost nearly 100,000 people, was reopened to foreign aid workers, and even the US Marines were invited to help by a nation that hosted huge demonstrations over the invasion of Afghanistan.
But on Tuesday, Indonesia announced that all foreign aid workers in the province will have to register with the military or be expelled, and said they must travel with armed soldiers in areas deemed to be insurgent hotbeds.
Indonesia also said the Australian, US, and other foreign soldiers who were among the first to bring aid to victims here will have to leave Indonesia by the end of March - or sooner if possible.
Many members of the Indonesian military and political establishment also blame foreigners - particularly Australia and the US - for the 1999 referendum that led to independence for the tiny former province of East Timor and have vowed that Indonesia will never allow itself to lose territory again.
http://search.csmonitor.com/2005/0114/p06s01-woap.html
Indonesia tightens access to Aceh
Aid groups are protesting registration demands.
The USS Lincoln left Indonesian waters on Wednesday.
By Tom McCawley Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA – The devastation wreaked on Aceh's coast by the Dec. 26 tsunami was so great that Indonesia's fears of foreign intervention in the war-torn province were briefly swept away. Aceh, which lost nearly 100,000 people, was reopened to foreign aid workers, and even the US Marines were invited to help by a nation that hosted huge demonstrations over the invasion of Afghanistan.
But on Tuesday, Indonesia announced that all foreign aid workers in the province will have to register with the military or be expelled, and said they must travel with armed soldiers in areas deemed to be insurgent hotbeds.
Indonesia also said the Australian, US, and other foreign soldiers who were among the first to bring aid to victims here will have to leave Indonesia by the end of March - or sooner if possible.
Many members of the Indonesian military and political establishment also blame foreigners - particularly Australia and the US - for the 1999 referendum that led to independence for the tiny former province of East Timor and have vowed that Indonesia will never allow itself to lose territory again.
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