Posted on 09/15/2010 2:03:10 AM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: "BOGOTA – Police seized 100 kilos of pentolite and arrested five people, including four Ecuadorians, who were transporting the high explosive on a highway in southwestern Colombia, a police commander said Tuesday.
A 17-year-old girl carrying a baby was among the foreigners arrested, the National Police commander in the southern border province of Putumayo, Col. Orlando Polo, said.
Officers also seized 6,000 meters (6,565 yards) of detonating cord, Polo told reporters in Mocoa, the capital of Putumayo.
The explosives and detonating cord were in a truck apparently headed for Florencia, the capital of neighboring Caqueta province."
SNIPPET: "The pentolite was apparently intended for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country’s oldest and largest leftist guerrilla group.
Ecuadorians, according to officials, are involved in supplying explosives and other materiel to the FARC."
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