Awesome: Colombian army duped FARC by wearing … Che t-shirts

hotair.com ^ | July 3, 2008 | Allahpundit

[Free ThinkerNY]

Shouldn’t the shirts have tipped them off? Nothing says “decadent western capitalist stooge” quite like Che gear.

Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told reporters earlier in the day that the rescue mission had been made possible by “a special intelligence” operation that had penetrated the highest reaches of the FARC, including the group’s seven-man directorate and one of the rings of specialized rebel units entrusted with guarding hostages. Santos said that ring, commanded by a rebel known by the alias Cesar, was tricked into believing that the FARC’s leader had called for the hostages to be brought to him.

Yesterday, two white helicopters arrived in a jungle clearing where the hostages were being held. The men in the helicopters looked like guerrillas, Betancourt later said, describing details of the rescue at the military airport.

“Absolutely surreal,” she said, noting that some of the men who got off the helicopter wore T-shirts emblazoned with the iconic image of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “I thought this was the FARC,” she said.

[weegee]

One day you will be able to pull off the same ruse with an Obama t-shirt:

[Free ThinkerNY]

[marine86297]

And now that the news media has just announced the ruse to everyone in the world, the government will never again be able to use the “Che” shirt cover again.

When will people ever learn, or care, that “Loose Lips, Sink Ships.”

[Hemorrhage]

That is truly ingenious. Using hippie communist propaganda to free hostages -- I like it. I don't figure these shirts would work quite as well:

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[BallyBill]

Sane people know that a Che' shirt is a sure way to spot a kook.

Watch for people wearing "Club Gitmo Gear" trying to sneak into our inner circles.

[tflabo]

[HereInTheHeartland]

“No you fools, don’t wear the Che shirts with the Reagan image, they will be tipped off. Wear the real Che t shirts”!!!

[bray]

Our infiltrators always start, “I voted for George 2 times, but...”

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Hemorrhage]

>> “No you fools, don’t wear the Che shirts with the Reagan image, they will be tipped off. Wear the real Che t shirts”!!!

“The things they make me do for my country. I’m in the Special Forces, I’m not some damn hippie.”

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[Celerity]

This is Monty Python-grade funny.

[SouthTexas]

Classic!

[ejonesie22]

Yup, but I’ll be damned if it didn’t work like a charm...

Leftist, dumb as dirt since Marx took pen to paper...

[Travis McGee]

[mass55th]

"Colombian army duped FARC by wearing … Che t-shirts"

They must have ordered them from the Obama campaign.

[tet68]

God, I always love that one.

[Parley Baer]

The raid on that FARC camp must have given up some good intelligence.

[atomic conspiracy]

Hunting Down Che Guevara: The COIN Campaign of Ñancahuazú

The story of Che's demise from a point of view rarely seen in the English-speaking world: that of the Bolivian military who tracked down and killed the terrorist icon.

(I think "Ñancahuazú" means "place of grieving moonbats" in the local Indian dialect.)

[FlyVet]

If given the opportunity, I want to someday ask a Che T-shirt wearer, “If you lived in Cuba when Che was there, and you decided to exercise your right to free speech by wearing a JFK T-shirt, what do you think your hero Che would have done to you?”

[Bender2]

Colombian army duped FARC by wearing … Che t-shirts

[Hemorrhage]

I figure most of the Che T-Shirt people don’t even know who the guy is ... it just a trendy t-shirt. The rest of them, I figure are on an NSA watch-list somewhere, and I try not to talk to them if I don’t have to.

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[Gil4]

This one might have gotten past them

[VOA]

Awesome: Colombian army duped FARC by wearing … Che t-shirts

I HIGHLY recommend people get ahold of today's (Thursday;
July 3, 2008) issue of The Wall Street Journal.

The article on the rescue is excellent and worth the $1.50
purchase price of the WSJ.

And I just about broke a rib laughing at the use of Che T-Shirts
to get cooperation at the FARC camp.

You couldn't make this stuff up or write a better screenplay.

Of course, Hollyweird won't make a truthful film about this
"Great Escape".

[VOA]

bump

[airedale]

It’s a good thing that American “journalists” or our Congressional Democrats didn’t find out about this before it happened or they’d have seen that the plan was published. They’d probably have interviewed the FARC about the plan to see what they thought about it and gotten some leftist analysts to make comments.

[Travis McGee]

I’d buy a beer for the creator of that Che wiggle toes gif.