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Mike Pompeo 19 Jan 2021 Secretary of State Primary record 1

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Karl Inderfurth Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Scholarship & press 2

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Claim of U.S. support for the Taliban, 1999 two senior officials suggested asking the Saudis to offer the Taliban $250 million for bin Laden; Clarke opposed; the idea died Primary record 3
State Department cable on terrorism finance, December 2009 sent the cable Primary record 4
Tiananmen protests and crackdown of 1989 an embassy cable of 4 June reported gunfire in the square and clashes on Changan Boulevard, and that demonstrators attacked troops Scholarship & press 5 6
Tiananmen protests and crackdown of 1989 its morning summary put deaths from the assault at 180 to 500; its task-force report cited 500 to 2,600; its embassy judged on 22 June that deaths were below 3,000 but far above official figures, and that most were on the avenues around the square Scholarship & press 5 7
Unocal’s pipeline plans across Afghanistan its South Asia bureau saw the project as a way to draw faction leaders to talks Primary record 3

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Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang 19 Jan 2021 Primary record 1

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19 Jan 2021 Mike Pompeo head of U.S. Department of State
19 Jan 2021 U.S. Department of State authored Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang

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Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang, U.S. Department of State, 19 Jan 2021. Primary record Archived copy
Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State
Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang - United States Department of State
Afghanistan: U.S. Denies It Secretly Supports Taliban, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 15 Apr 1999. Scholarship & press
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Karl Inderfurth said Wednesday that the U.S. has provided no weapons, no training, nor any other form of assistance to the Taliban.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 9-11-commission, 22 Jul 2004. Primary record
two senior State Department officials suggested asking the Saudis to offer the Taliban $250 million for Bin Ladin.
Clarke opposed having the United States facilitate a “huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban”
While there was probably never much chance of the pipeline actually being built, the Afghan desk hoped that the prospect of shared pipeline profits might lure faction leaders to a conference table.
Terrorist Finance: Action Request for Senior Level Engagement on Terrorism Finance (cable 09STATE131801), U.S. Department of State, as published by WikiLeaks, 30 Dec 2009. Primary record
From: Secretary of State
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History (Electronic Briefing Book No. 16, documents), National Security Archive, George Washington University, 1 Jun 1999. Scholarship & press
PLA troops in Tiananmen opened a barrage of rifle and machine gun fire.
causing a large number of casualties.
APCs were set on fire, and demonstrators besieged troops with rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails.
deaths from the military assault on Tiananmen Square range from 180 to 500; thousands more have been injured.
casualty estimates vary from 500 to 2600 deaths, with injuries up to 10,000.
civilian casualties probably did not reach the figure of 3,000 used in some press accounts, "they surely far outnumbered official figures."
many if not most of the deaths associated with the crackdown occurred on Changan Avenue and other streets surrounding the square, rather than on Tiananmen Square itself.
the figure put forward by the Chinese Red Cross of 2,600 military and civilian deaths with 7,000 wounded to be "not an unreasonable estimate."
claiming that more than 10,000 people had been killed at Tiananmen.
Tiananmen Massacre 30th Anniversary, National Security Archive, George Washington University, 4 Jun 2019. Scholarship & press
the Chinese military had carried out a massacre ordered by top officials
Daily Tar Heel, 8 June 1989, page 2 (Associated Press reports from Beijing), The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill), on DigitalNC, 8 Jun 1989. Scholarship & press
Some officials of China's Red Cross said 2,600 people were killed but Beijing's Red Cross office has refused to provide any figures.

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