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The following mainstream new item may contain misinformation and or
outright distortions..
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:24:39 EST
> <snip>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Dennis Grammenos [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent:        Sunday, March 28, 1999 10:17 PM
>> To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject:     REUTERS: Colombia ties top rebel's brother to U.S. murders
>>
>>                         ==========================================
>>                         The FARC has also specifically denied any
>>                         involvement by Grannobles in the killings.
>> ___________________     ==========================================
>> REUTERS
>>
>> Friday, 26 March 1999
>>
>>                 Colombia ties top rebel's brother to U.S. murders
>>                 -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> BOGOTA -- Authorities have ordered the arrest of the brother of one of
>> Colombia's top Marxist rebel leaders for his alleged role in the recent
>> kidnapping and murder of three Americans, judicial officials said on
>> Friday.
>>
>> Spokesmen for Prosecutor-General Alfonso Mendez said the warrant for the
>> arrest of German Briceno, alias ``Grannobles, was issued on Thursday on
>> suspicion that he personally ordered the crime that drew an international
>> outcry.
>>
>> Briceno is the brother of Jorge Briceno, No. 2 leader and chief military
>> strategist of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
>>
>> He is also one of the FARC's top regional commanders in the rural area of
>> northeastern Colombia where the U.S. citizens were abducted on Feb. 25.
>>
>> In the days after Terence Freitas, 24, Ingrig Washinawatok, 41, and
>> Laheenae Gay, 39, were kidnapped, the army intercepted a series of radio
>> conversations in which a voice authorities identified as that of
>> Grannobles allegedly ordered other guerrillas to kill them.
>>
>> The bullet-riddled corpses of the Americans, who had been helping U'wa
>> Indians defend their ancestral lands from encroachment by a U.S. oil
>> company, were found dumped just across Colombia's border with Venezuela on
>> March 4.
>>
>> The FARC, the hemisphere's largest and oldest guerrilla army, initially
>> denied any involvement in the kidnap-murders. But it later blamed them on
>> a rogue, mid-ranking field commander who it said had acted with three
>> other subordinates without the knowledge or consent of senior rebel
>> leaders.
>>
>> The FARC has defied U.S. demands that it surrender the killers for
>> extradition but said it will put them on trial before a rebel war council,
>> which ultimately could sent them before a firing squad.
>>
>> The FARC has also specifically denied any involvement by Grannobles in the
>> killings. But Thursday's warrant gave credence to previous claims,
>> including a statement by Defence Minister Rodrigo Lloreda, that put the
>> blame squarely on his shoulders and suggested a high-level cover-up by the
>> rebels.
>>
>> A public admission that the brother of one of the FARC's top leaders was
>> behind the killings would be a serious embarrassment at a time when the
>> group is striving to boost its political image at home and abroad.
>>
>> Jorge Briceno, known by his nom de guerre as ``Mono Jojoy,'' is a member
>> of the FARC's seven-man General Secretariat. He is widely seen as the
>> mostly likely successor to the group's veteran commander-in-chief, Manuel
>> ``Sureshot'' Marulanda.
>>
>> In one of the army's radio intercepts, Jorge Briceno can allegedly be
>> heard talking to his brother, Grannobles, about the devastating political
>> impact the killings were going to have on the rebel group, and telling his
>> brother to come up with ``any name'' to put forward as the murderer of the
>> Americans.
>>
>> ``This is the biggest political screw-up of all,'' he said. ``This is a
>> mistake from hell.''
>>
>>         Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited
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