Tsunami Relief

I am glad that they are scaling back. The situation in Aceh looks like it is a disaster waiting to happen with the US military caught in the middle. Leave it to the UN, that's what that institution is there for.

In a separate incident, an Indonesian soldier in Aceh fired his weapon into the air Thursday, narrowly missing the rotor blades of a U.S. helicopter delivering aid to survivors, witnesses said. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

The soldier apparently was trying to control a crowd of up to 25 refugees in the coastal village of Panga that stormed toward the American helicopter to grab relief supplies.

U.S. Scales Back Tsunami Relief Efforts