HI all, This one friend of mine, who has his finger on things pretty well in my own estimation, sent me this yesterday, or maybe even the night before, but I think it was yesterday, (I've been very busy, and in pain), and I thought I'd pass it on. I don't actually have his permission to do so, which is why I always post his stuff nameless. If you don't trust me, (and how can you really? :>) you don't have to take my word for it, but he is a pretty smart guy who has written some really incredible articles, so at least take a look. These are simple ramblings, plus the Reuters piece. Peace all, Preston (this is unexpurgated, other than for the sig, so excuse any foul lingo please) Preston--Thanx for sending me that AP item about some arms smugglers getting busted in Peru. I got so excited I went surfing for more, and found this fresh new expanded version of the caper from Reuters, below. This preposterous arms-running circus, by golly, is what Mike Ruppert was telling you about a few weeks back, where these Russkie mafiosi load up their AK-47 pallets into great big 707-sized Ilyushin transport jets in the Jordanian Royal Airlines hanger in Amman, and fly those Ilyushins all the way across the Atlantic Ocean [presumably they get refueled in the air from little tanker jets, I suppose, like the opening sequence in DR STRANGELOVE], and then all the 3000-mile way across Brasil to the Andes, and then kick out the guns into the southern Colombia jungle near the FARC's 'Frente 16' base camp, and then land somewhere in South America to load up with dope for the return flight to Europe. Sez in this Reuters story they land at the Iquitos airport, which is sort of news to me, because I did not know that shabby little strip at Iquitos could handle anything nearly as big as 707 transport jets. But then, if there's enough bribe money involved, these dopers can annul all the laws of aerodynamics, I imagine. What this looks like to ME, I don't mind telling you, is a big old STING operation set up last winter by clever US spooks, with the Peruvian and Colombian security services doing all the heavy lifting and bribery. The whole fucking modus operandum was described in vast detail by MSNBC last 10 April, leaked to them by the same press-feeding DIA spooks who keep the Washington TIMES full of patriotic spook stories like this. This fable served its purpose by convincing a lot of US Congressfolk that unless they voted for that $1.3B Drug War package to Colombia, on the table last April, then they would be crucified for letting the FARC move dope and arms all over the world with these Russkie mafiosi in Jordan. (Whereas, if they ever look DEEPLY into that end of this caper, which they won't--but if they DID look for it, I guarantee you they would find that all those Rooskie mafiosi are on contract with the Mossad.) (MSNBC was told by the spooks that these mafiosi were working with the HEZBOLLAH! And they PRINTED that!) So why does this caper suddenly get recycled NOW for headlines? Why, because it makes Vladimiro Montesinos, the incredibly spooky and filthy head of the Peruvian spook services, suddenly INTEGRAL to United States National Security. Montesinos actually came out in public, for the first time in years, to advertise this anti-Communist arms bust, standing right at the side of President Fujimori. As recently as last week, Fuji was promising to Do Something about Montesinos, who has been fingered by the OAS and the US State Department as the evildoer who fixed the election for Fuji so blatantly last month. The DoState has actually made noises about making future aid to Peru conditional on Fuji kicking Montesinos out of the government. (Which might be tough for Fujimori, not least because officially, Montesinos isn't IN the government, having no official post, drawing no official salary, anyhow.) Ever since the election, see, Montesinos has been getting just terrible press, and even Fujimori has been saying he has to go. But you won't be hearing any more talk like that out of the Peruvian government, after this splendid anti-Red arms bust, f'r shur! The innaresting thing will be to watch how the US State Department talks about Monty from now on. Most likely they'll never even mention him again. Yeah, he keeps his Get Out Of Jail Free card from the CIA, just because he's taking credit now for a spook operation the DIA ran last year, to goose Congress into passing the Plan Colombia bill. Aw, fuck. -- Peru busts Colombia arms ring By Reuters - 22 Aug 2000 10:23GMT President Alberto Fujimori said on Monday Peruvian authorities had bust a major international arms smuggling ring that parachuted thousands of weapons into neighbouring war-torn Colombia to supply leftist rebels. Fujimori said the operation highlighted growing concerns that the conflict could intensify and spill into Peru just as Washington prepares to give $1.3 billion in aid to Colombia to support its war on drugs. Authorities arrested six people, including three former Peruvian military officials and a Russian, who had smuggled some 10,000 Kalashnikov automatic rifles over the last year from Jordan to Colombia, with a stop in Peru's Amazon, in one of the biggest arms busts in this Andean nation. "We're not going to get involved in Colombia's domestic affairs but once there's a danger for Peru, the security services will act," Fujimori told reporters in the presidential palace, flanked by powerful and secretive intelligence services chief Vladimiro Montesinos in a rare public appearance. Colombia has been ravaged by three decades of fighting between Marxist rebels, outlawed ultra-right paramilitary gangs and state security forces that has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, in the last 10 years. Peru shares hundreds of miles of remote jungle border with Colombia and the government, fearing the Colombian conflict could spill over its frontiers, has reinforced the region to fight incursions by rebels or drug traffickers. OPERATION SIBERIA Fujimori said the trafficking, uncovered in what Peru code-named "Operation Siberia", was intended to supply Colombia's biggest rebel army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and had major regional security overtones. "Obviously, advances by the FARC and strengthening of its firepower are a danger for Peru," he said. The appearance of Montesinos at the news conference raised speculation that Fujimori would announce a public post for the powerful spy chief -- a proposal he floated in July. But Fujimori sidestepped the question. "I have not said he will remain in the same job -- I will consider this in the light of national security," he said. Illustrating the two-year-old Operation Siberia with photographs, maps and mug-shots of the detainees, he said the guns were obtained using a false order letter by a former Peruvian military official in the Jordanian capital Amman. The weapons were loaded onto a hired Russian-made Ilyushin plane before being flown via the Canary Islands and Guyana. The guns were dropped in southern Colombia and the plane continued to the Peruvian jungle town of Iquitos, purportedly to collect timber, Fujimori said. Instead, it picked up drugs -- which was how the trade was rumbled. "The purchase of Kalashnikovs was made with money from the drugs trade in which the FARC is involved," Fujimori said, adding Peruvian secret services had not coordinated the operation with Colombian authorities. He said 2,500 guns were delivered in March 1999, a further 2,500 in April that year and another 5,000 in July 1999. Delivery of a fourth consignment, which had been in preparation, was thwarted when the trafficking was uncovered. The six were arrested in Peru and the former military officials will face military as well as civilian charges. The other detainees included two Frenchmen, one a naturalised Spaniard and the other a naturalised American, and a woman. --------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- <FONT COLOR="#000099">Free @Backup service! Click here for your free trial of @Backup. @Backup is the most convenient way to securely protect and access your files online. Try it now and receive 300 MyPoints. </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/6348/6/_/475667/_/967045553/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>-
