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angkor, you would know better than I would, but didn't the Khmer Rouge first emerge with any notoreity in 1970? Kerry says he was fired upon by the Khmer Rouge in 1968, but my guess is that only people in the State Dept. and CIA even knew who the Khmer Rouge were in 1968. I may be wrong.
The KR was just coming into existence in 1968. By 1970 it still had only a few thousand followers.
It seems unlikely that the KR would have been "5 miles" from the VN border in 1968, or that they would have been hanging out with the NVA, or that Kerry would have been able to ID a KR member vs. a plain old Cambodian, esp. at night. The KR didn't wear uniforms.
I'm just wondering how Kerry knew that he was facing Cambodians that evening.