Patriot Paradox
Posted on 11/27/2004 9:15:14 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) was targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a top Colombian official said on Saturday.
"According to informants and various sources, we had information indicating that various members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an attempt against President Bush," Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto Uribe told reporters.
He would not be drawn out on the details of the threat.
The White House had no immediate comment.
The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it "does not comment or release information regarding our protective intelligence and protective methods."
"We do not discuss any alleged threats to our protectees," said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service spokesman.
The 17,000-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, fighting a 40-year guerrilla war against the state, has long accused the United States of backing business interests in this Andean country while ignoring the 60 percent of the population that lives in poverty.
There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on Monday on his way back from the APEC (news - web sites) forum in Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops were shuttered.
The FARC has made many attempts against the life of President Alvaro Uribe, one of few conservative South American presidents with strong ties to Washington. Uribe, whose father was killed resisting kidnap by the FARC in the 1980s, narrowly survived a car bomb attack by the FARC during his 2002 presidential campaign.
The last U.S. president to visit Colombia was Bill Clinton (news - web sites), whose trip to Cartagena was marked by the seizure of bomb-making materials from a house six blocks from a building Clinton was visiting.
Bush used his four-hour trip to solidify his alliance with Uribe, whom he considers an ally in the effort to curtail the illegal drug trade and fight terrorism.
Colombia produces about 90 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States and 50 percent of the heroin.
Washington has paid out more than $3 billion over the past four years for Plan Colombia, a security and anti-drug program developed by Clinton and former Colombian President Andres Pastrana. Bush has promised more support.
Colombia's economy is expected to grow by 4 percent this year and next as it takes advantage of a reduction in violence in its war involving the FARC and far-right paramilitaries, both of which have links to the country's huge cocaine trade.
Wasn't it FARC that Clinton pardoned many members of....
Yes, Clinton hung out with the world's finest...look at what countries he pandered to, and who he pardoned...
Tells you what Bonnie and Clyde really stand for...lawless power.
FARC rebels maintain bases inside Brazil - A Terrorist Regime Waits in the Wings
Washington Times ^ | March 4, 2003 | Agence France-Presse
Posted on 03/04/2003 3:34:04 AM CST by Cincinatus' Wife
RIO DE JANEIRO (Agence France-Presse) - The high command of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has three bases or hide-outs in Brazil, the daily O Estado de Sao Paulo reported during the weekend, quoting Colombian intelligence sources.
The report said the largest of the bases is in the southern Brazilian state of Parana, in a region known as Guaira, on land owned by a naturalized Brazilian of Lebanese origin who has been in government custody for seven months.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
It's Cool Again to be Communist***Inspired by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and Cuba's Fidel Castro, military strongman Chavez is turning oil-rich Venezuela into a populist, anti-U.S. dictatorship, say U.S. intelligence sources. They tell Insight that Chavez is providing a safe haven for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) narcoguerrillas, an 18,000-man insurgency that began decades ago as an offshoot of the local Communist Party and still clings to Marxist-Leninist ideology.
………………U.S. policy during the Clinton administration provided Colombia, a country twice as large as France, with the means to combat drug producers and traffickers but deliberately restricted the use of U.S.-supplied military equipment to prevent Bogotá from effectively fighting the FARC. A U.S.-brokered "peace" process helped give the FARC a protected sanctuary the size of Switzerland in the heart of the country. Now, Colombia faces the prospect of disintegration as the cocaine- and heroin-financed FARC gains military ground. ***
IRA/Cuban/Venezuelan Involvement in Colombia ***The President's Peace Commission even planned for the eventual participation of a contingent of Cuban soldiers that would be members of a U.N. verification team in northern Colombia. The team would have been responsible for verifying the good conduct of the guerrillas in a distension zone controlled by the Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN). - Snip - Based in northern Colombia, Cuba has lately been involved in the peace process, which had continued unabated until last week in Caracas, Venezuela, under the watchful supervision of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Those talks were broken off last week, however, and in the past few days the ELN has launched a series of attacks crossing through Venezuelan territory to attack Colombian border posts. -
- Snip - Anti-aircraft missile experts from Cuba and Venezuela are probably working on the seven anti-aircraft missile bases that have been detected under construction in the distension zone. Armaments tracking detected the arrival of Stinger and Redeye anti-aircraft missiles from Syria several years ago. More shipments of anti-aircraft missiles and launchers have probably been made by the Russian mafia, closely linked to the FARC because of its unique ability to pay in highly lucrative cocaine, which Russia distributes throughout Europe. -Snip - Cuba, for its part, is denying the presence of Cuban troops. Cuban chancellor Aymee Hernandez said in Havana, "It's a great fallacy, the whole world knows that there are no Cubans there [in Colombia]."***
Chavez: Colombian Rebel Contact 'Humanitarian'-denies collaborating with FARC*** Chavez, who spoke in Bolivia late on Wednesday, was commenting on a video released in Caracas by four opposition journalists that allegedly showed a Venezuelan military team negotiating with FARC guerrillas inside Colombia in July 2000.
Opponents of Chavez, a left-wing former paratrooper who attempted an abortive coup in 1992 before winning elections six years later, have frequently accused him of sympathizing with Colombia's Marxist rebels and even of cooperating with them. ***
Chavez security chief alleges FARC links*** I am resigning because I disagree with the DISIP's policy of providing security to Colombian guerrillas ... this policy is more than just irregular, it approaches treason to Venezuela given the innumerable deaths, kidnappings and other crimes for which these groups are responsible in our country." Egui Bastidas said 90 percent of his fellow officers "obey orders but do not agree with them" and called on President Hugo Chavez to reverse his policy of tacit support for the rebels. "All the peace negotiations there are over and open confrontations between the guerrillas and the Colombian government have begun. Are they going to carry on letting them cross over into Venezuelan territory?" Egui Bastidas asked.
The former DISIP official called on the Armed Forces to issue a statement about their view of the Chávez government's alleged support for the Colombian guerrillas. Egui Bastidas also made a number of revelations about DISIP activities in recent months. He said the Venezuelan security service had collected personal information about all serving military officers and had also tried to smear opposition figures, such as Alberto Pena, the mayor of Metropolitan Caracas. The official said he was also concerned at the growing role of Russian and Cuban security advisers in Venezuela.
Egui Bastidas said he had experienced "the direct participation and the attempts at indoctrination by the Russian and Cuban intelligence services, who have direct and virtually unlimited access within the Helicoide (DISIP's headquarters building)." The official's lawyer, former DISIP Secretary-General Joaquin Chaffardet, said around 100 members of the Cuban intelligence services are currently operating in Venezuela. The new allegations would, if proven, further strain the already difficult relationship between the United States and Venezuela. ***
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Yup.
I wonder if this is included in the Clinton Liebrary.
Even if true, businesses create jobs, thus reducing poverty. Y R peeple so stoopid?
I thought those ware FALN, Puerto Rican Terrorists that x42 pardoned?
I thought the terrorists he pardoned were from a Puerto Rico nationalist group. Tried to boost the PR vote for Hillary
Thank Clinton for the Communist gains in S. American. We are in a World War. The Real axis of evil is Russia & China. This World War, like WWII has multi fronts. Iraq, Ukraine, South America are examples of these fronts. President Bush has a grand strategy in fighting this war. Being reelected and gaining seats in Congress will strengthen his hand. Iraq which was a surrogate of Russia & China had to be occupied and used for a spring board for operations in Iran & Syria. Both these countries are also surrogates of Russia & China. I am sure S. America will be dealt with in its proper timeframe.
This thread does not work correctly, if you try to bookmark, it gives it a Brazil name, same with the first couple posts,
but this one worked.
I know more coffee.
Not a morning for first time ever games.
One thing's for sure..
he pardoned more terrorists than he caught.
Yes, they were the Puerto Rican terrorists that Clinton pardoned. I just got through reading a book that claimed Puerto Ricans were happy about this. Ummmmm, no . . .
No, Clinton pardoned Puerto Rican Terrorists, not Columbian Terrorists. FALN, not FARC.
Possibly got the supply for his own "Hoover" of a nose direct from FARC. Even if he didn't, which is most likely, he did provide them with a signifigent fraction of their total revenues keeping that nose supplied with candy.
Check this one out. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27521 . Of course the libs will say that this is only evidence of an "informal" relationship rather than "collaborative". Just because they eat, sleep, train and poop together and have the same goals, harm to America, and both behead innocents is just a coincidence. And besides the whole world hates us so we must be wrong.
No. It was Puerto Rican marxists who attempted to assassinate Pres. Truman at Blair House.
Clinton should be hung for Treason PING!
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