[Excerpt: They were working with the US-backed drug eradication and counterinsurgency programme, Plan Colombia.....The general said the helicopter had crashed after encountering bad weather, with all on board killed....."The Black Hawk, part of Plan Colombia, supported military operations against drug traffickers and leaders of rebel groups in the southern part of the country," Gen Castellanos said.]
http://212.58.240.132/1/hi/world/americas/4171901.stm Last Updated: Thursday, 13 January, 2005, 15:05 GMT Colombian 'copter crash kills 20 Colombian and US military patrols scour the country for coca farms Twenty Colombian soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the south-west of the country. Their Black Hawk helicopter came down near the border with Ecuador, army chief Gen Reinaldo Castellanos said in a statement. They were working with the US-backed drug eradication and counterinsurgency programme, Plan Colombia. The general said the helicopter had crashed after encountering bad weather, with all on board killed. "The Black Hawk, part of Plan Colombia, supported military operations against drug traffickers and leaders of rebel groups in the southern part of the country," Gen Castellanos said. It went down just after midnight near the town of Tumaco, 600 kilometres (370 miles) south-west of the capital, Bogota, he added. Guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) often fire on government helicopters that fly over territory under their control but Gen Castellanos said this was unlikely to have been the cause of Thursday's crash. The Farc, which has been fighting the Colombian government for 40 years, uses drug trafficking to finance its insurgency. enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
