From: jrochkin@cs.oberlin.edu (Jonathan Rochkind)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 06:27:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Re: NSA says strong crypto to china??
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At 10:50 PM 01/07/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>As when the Cossacks who fled the U.S.S.R. after the war and pledged to
>help the West fight Communism were returned by the British to Stalin, where
>they were executed. (I was reminded of this by the latest Bond movie, where
>Bond avers, "Not exactly Britain's finest moment.")

The Kurds in Iraw during the Persina Gulf war is an analagous situation.
The Kurds supported and assisted the U.S. government during the war.
Really pro-U.S..
At some point near the end of the war, though, the U.S. just started
ignoring them, and Hussein
started bombing them and killing huge numbers of them.