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Shopping centre bomb kills seven (Colombia)
Agence France-Presse ^ | 3-5-3

Posted on 03/05/2003 10:21:59 AM PST by Indy Pendance

AT least seven people have been killed and 50 injured after a car bomb exploded in the north-eastern Colombian city of Cucuta.

The bomb was believed to have been planted by National Liberation Army guerrillas, officials said.

The governor of Norte de Santander province, Juan Santaella, called the attack "a real tragedy" for the city, which is near the border with Venezuela.

The car bomb exploded in the parking garage of a shopping centre.

Another explosion today killed one soldier and injured three others in the outskirts of Carmen de Bolivar, some 950km north of Bogota, according to military sources.

Officials suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels of carrying out that attack.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: latinamericalist; wodlist

1 posted on 03/05/2003 10:21:59 AM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
Down With Communist Insurgency. ANSWER must like what they are doing.
2 posted on 03/05/2003 10:24:10 AM PST by yonif
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To: Indy Pendance
How very sad.
3 posted on 03/05/2003 10:41:23 AM PST by Slip18
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To: Indy Pendance; yonif; Cacique
Look for more of the Colombian Bourgeoisie to decamp to their second homes in Key Biscayne and Weston (that's South Florida for all you folks in Yorba Linda).
4 posted on 03/05/2003 10:46:51 AM PST by Clemenza (East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
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To: *Latin_America_List; Cincinatus' Wife
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
5 posted on 03/05/2003 10:54:58 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: Indy Pendance; *Wod_list
Officials suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels of carrying out that attack.

And our War On Some Drugs puts money in their pockets.

6 posted on 03/05/2003 11:48:36 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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To: Libertarianize the GOP; Indy Pendance
It must be hell living like this.
7 posted on 03/05/2003 12:37:47 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Indy Pendance
A Columbian student of mine - ten years in the military down there - told us last night that the only solution is to just drop a big bomb on all of them. Short of that - Americans should stop smoking dope which by doing feeds the Communists!
8 posted on 03/05/2003 6:26:26 PM PST by eleni121
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To: eleni121
Americans should stop smoking dope which by doing feeds the Communists!

Americans should remove the exorbitant profits from drugs by legalizing them.

By the way, Colombia produces coca, used to make cocaine, which is not smoked.

9 posted on 03/06/2003 8:13:40 AM PST by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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