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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2001-12-20T03:16:00'
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title: Stealth invasion
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According to witnesses, the United States army [invaded a nation I'd never heard of](http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011219/1/25by3.html) yesterday. [It might](http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1395071,00.html) [not be true](http://allafrica.com/stories/200112190701.html), but what caught me was there's a country I'd never heard of before. To my former seventh grade geography students: I missed one! Sorry. The CIA [knows about it](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cn.html), though. Sounds like a rough place. UPDATE: Amazing. Someone there has [scanned in one of the flyers](http://www.primature-rficomores.com/Pages/francais/communique191201.html) passed out by the invading force and put it on the country's official website. It's in French. [Here's a translation.](http://www.primature-rficomores.com/Pages/anglais/communique191201_a.html)