Charges dropped against leader of alleged Laos coup plotCharges against a former Hmong guerrilla leader accused of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos while in exile in California have been dropped, justice officials said Friday. A spokesman for the United States Attorneys office in Sacramento told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. that all charges against ageing warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai, central authority fell to the provincial military governors Vang Pao
A statement said that while 11 other people will be prosecuted for attempting to bring down the Laotian government, charges against the CIA-trained Pao had been dismissed as a "matter of discretion." "In our measured judgement and based on the totality of the evidence in the case and the circumstances regarding defendant Vang Pao, we believe that continued prosecution of this defendant is no longer warranted," US Attorney Lawrence Brown Lawrence Brown (1907-September 5, 1988) was a jazz trombonist from Kansas. He began his career with Charlie Echols and Paul Howard. In 1932 he joined Duke Ellington. said in a statement. Pao is a prominent figure in the Hmong community in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , a former general in the Royal Lao army in the 1960s and 1970s who fled to the United States in 1975 after communists ousted Laos' royal rulers. His arrest two years ago outraged Hmong in the United States, with large protests outside government buildings in Sacramento against his detention. Pao and his former co-accused were arrested in June 2007 after authorities allegedly "interrupted a plot to overthrow the government of Laos by force and violence" the justice department said. The plotters were accused of planning "to use AK-47 automatic rifles, Stinger missiles, LAW rockets, anti-tank rockets and other arms and munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. to topple (the) Lao government" and destroy government buildings in Vientiane. 
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