Three US citizens charged with "terrorism" in Vietnam

President Bush will be traveling to Vietnam later this month. I'm sure this case will be a topic of discussion. From Reuters:

The statement linked the seven (three are US citizens) to a Vietnamese-born resident of the United States, Nguyen Huu Chanh, who was suspected of plotting to bomb Vietnam embassies in recent years.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung said in a separate statement that Foshee, 58, was held "for allegedly being involved in terrorist activities, but has not been brought to trial."

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Chanh, the accused ringleader, was detained in South Korea in the past year following a request by Vietnam to arrest and extradite him. Chanh is a member of a U.S.-based group called "Government of Free Vietnam" but he has not yet been extradited.

The government statement said that "in order to carry out the plot, Nguyen Huu Chanh and his accomplices stopped at nothing, including terrorist bombing and using radio broadcasts to call for an uprising and then to stir unrest and upset the lives of cadres, public employees and ordinary people."

I don't have much confidence in the fairness of the Vietnamese justice system.

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