[MLL] Zionist torturers and Colombian oligarchs

2002-12-23 Thread NorteAmericanos_for_Bolivar





A connection between the Israeli Military man Yair 
Klien and the Colombian Death Squads.

A deadly union of Zionist torturers and Colombian 
oligarchs.

NorteAmericanos for Bolivar

- Original Message - 
Subject: Colombia's Paramilitaries and Israel

New World Phalange, Colombia's Paramilitaries 
and Israel 
by Jeremy Bigwood December 04, 2002 
 "I copied the concept of paramilitary forces from the 
Israelis."
Carlos Castaño, Mi Confesión 2002[1]  
 
In 1983, an intense 18-year-old Colombian arrived in Israel to take a yearlong 
course called "562."[2] He was no normal foreign exchange student. His 
name was Carlos Castaño and the course was about making war, something that he 
would exceed at: he was destined to become the most adept and ruthless 
paramilitary leader in Latin America's history.  
 
Carlos Castaño had been impelled along this vengeful path after his 
cattle-ranching father had been killed during a botched rescue attempt by the 
army while being held for a "tax" ransom by the FARC - Colombia's strongest 
left-wing guerrilla army.[3] Bitter over their father's death, Carlos and 
his older brother, Fidel, vowed revenge, a vengeance that would dovetail with 
both the interests of the Colombian right-wing landholding classes and US 
foreign policy. It is a vengeance that continues into the present.. 
 
 
The brothers first offered their services as scouts for the Colombian Army's 
Bombona Battalion - fingering FARC sympathizers, providing intelligence and even 
participating in military operations. But Fidel - some 14 years older than 
Carlos - concluded that by merely working for the army, they were going to get 
nowhere.[4] One of the battalion's majors introduced them to a local 
paramilitary death squad called "Caruso," with whom they started a killing 
spree. When local police started to investigate them, they found it 
necessary to operate even more clandestinely. Unlike in many other 
third-world countries under the U.S.'s shadow, Colombia's police and judiciary 
have sometimes played an independent role from the Army.  
 
Later, according to press reports,[5] Fidel started his own paramilitary death 
squad called "Los Tangueros," named after his ranch, "Las Tangas."[6] The 
Los Tangueros was responsible for more than 150 murders during the late 1980s 
and early 1990s. When discussing this period in his book, Castaño openly 
talks about murders he has committed or ordered, making his habit of executing 
what he calls "'guerrillas' in towns" sound routine.[7] In one massacre 
alone, the Los Tangueros captured dozens of campesinos from a neighboring 
town. Back at the ranch, "they tortured them all night with crude 
instruments before shooting some and burying others alive."[8] Los Tangueros 
along with other death squads dispersed throughout the country would evolve into 
the present 9,000-strong paramilitary force in Colombia, [9] now killing up to 
twenty civilians per day.[10]  
 
During the early 1980s when Castaño's father was captured by the FARC, rural 
Colombia was rife with small diverse paramilitary units working for the army and 
the landholding upper classes.[11] Many of these groups were merely the 
enforcers and protectors of the local wealthy, while others worked protecting 
the "new rich" of the cocaine trade from the "taxation" of the left-wing 
insurgencies. Some of these groups bore the names of petty criminal gangs 
or the names of their leaders. They liked to call themselves 
"self-defense" or "auto defense" groups, but here we will use the term 
'paramilitaries" to avoid confusion. In the 1980s, these paramilitary 
groups were disparate and not well trained, and sometimes got involved in turf 
battles between themselves. If they were to take the offensive against the 
steady advances of the leftist guerrillas, the paramilitaries would need both 
political/military training and unification. And while these 
paramilitaries essentially worked for the same counterinsurgent goals as those 
of US foreign policy, the US could not directly support them. But another 
country could.  
 
Exactly how Carlos Castaño got to Israel is still a mystery, as is precisely 
which entity trained him there. But whoever set it up, the Israeli course "562" 
definitely had a strong effect on Castaño. "Something clicked in me, and I 
began to behave differently[12]...My perception of this war changed radically 
after my trip to Israel,"[13] he said in his "as told to" Colombian run-away 
bestseller of interviews edited by Spanish journalist Mauricio Aranguren Molina. 
 
 
Carlos Castaño was clearly a good and highly motivated student. Of his studies 
in Israel, which is the subject of chapter 6 of in his book, he reminisces: 
 "Unlike what one might think, we studied in the classroom 
more enthusiastically than in the military training. The classes 
emphasized the regular and irregular ways in which the world operates... It was 
there that I rounded out my education... [The 

[MLL] Zionist torturers and Colombian oligarchs

2002-12-23 Thread NorteAmericanos_for_Bolivar





A connection between the Israeli Military man Yair 
Klien and the Colombian Death Squads.

A deadly union of Zionist torturers and Colombian 
oligarchs.

NorteAmericanos for Bolivar

- Original Message - 
Subject: Colombia's Paramilitaries and Israel

New World Phalange, Colombia's Paramilitaries 
and Israel 
by Jeremy Bigwood December 04, 2002 
 "I copied the concept of paramilitary forces from the 
Israelis."
Carlos Castaño, Mi Confesión 2002[1]  
 
In 1983, an intense 18-year-old Colombian arrived in Israel to take a yearlong 
course called "562."[2] He was no normal foreign exchange student. His 
name was Carlos Castaño and the course was about making war, something that he 
would exceed at: he was destined to become the most adept and ruthless 
paramilitary leader in Latin America's history.  
 
Carlos Castaño had been impelled along this vengeful path after his 
cattle-ranching father had been killed during a botched rescue attempt by the 
army while being held for a "tax" ransom by the FARC - Colombia's strongest 
left-wing guerrilla army.[3] Bitter over their father's death, Carlos and 
his older brother, Fidel, vowed revenge, a vengeance that would dovetail with 
both the interests of the Colombian right-wing landholding classes and US 
foreign policy. It is a vengeance that continues into the present.. 
 
 
The brothers first offered their services as scouts for the Colombian Army's 
Bombona Battalion - fingering FARC sympathizers, providing intelligence and even 
participating in military operations. But Fidel - some 14 years older than 
Carlos - concluded that by merely working for the army, they were going to get 
nowhere.[4] One of the battalion's majors introduced them to a local 
paramilitary death squad called "Caruso," with whom they started a killing 
spree. When local police started to investigate them, they found it 
necessary to operate even more clandestinely. Unlike in many other 
third-world countries under the U.S.'s shadow, Colombia's police and judiciary 
have sometimes played an independent role from the Army.  
 
Later, according to press reports,[5] Fidel started his own paramilitary death 
squad called "Los Tangueros," named after his ranch, "Las Tangas."[6] The 
Los Tangueros was responsible for more than 150 murders during the late 1980s 
and early 1990s. When discussing this period in his book, Castaño openly 
talks about murders he has committed or ordered, making his habit of executing 
what he calls "'guerrillas' in towns" sound routine.[7] In one massacre 
alone, the Los Tangueros captured dozens of campesinos from a neighboring 
town. Back at the ranch, "they tortured them all night with crude 
instruments before shooting some and burying others alive."[8] Los Tangueros 
along with other death squads dispersed throughout the country would evolve into 
the present 9,000-strong paramilitary force in Colombia, [9] now killing up to 
twenty civilians per day.[10]  
 
During the early 1980s when Castaño's father was captured by the FARC, rural 
Colombia was rife with small diverse paramilitary units working for the army and 
the landholding upper classes.[11] Many of these groups were merely the 
enforcers and protectors of the local wealthy, while others worked protecting 
the "new rich" of the cocaine trade from the "taxation" of the left-wing 
insurgencies. Some of these groups bore the names of petty criminal gangs 
or the names of their leaders. They liked to call themselves 
"self-defense" or "auto defense" groups, but here we will use the term 
'paramilitaries" to avoid confusion. In the 1980s, these paramilitary 
groups were disparate and not well trained, and sometimes got involved in turf 
battles between themselves. If they were to take the offensive against the 
steady advances of the leftist guerrillas, the paramilitaries would need both 
political/military training and unification. And while these 
paramilitaries essentially worked for the same counterinsurgent goals as those 
of US foreign policy, the US could not directly support them. But another 
country could.  
 
Exactly how Carlos Castaño got to Israel is still a mystery, as is precisely 
which entity trained him there. But whoever set it up, the Israeli course "562" 
definitely had a strong effect on Castaño. "Something clicked in me, and I 
began to behave differently[12]...My perception of this war changed radically 
after my trip to Israel,"[13] he said in his "as told to" Colombian run-away 
bestseller of interviews edited by Spanish journalist Mauricio Aranguren Molina. 
 
 
Carlos Castaño was clearly a good and highly motivated student. Of his studies 
in Israel, which is the subject of chapter 6 of in his book, he reminisces: 
 "Unlike what one might think, we studied in the classroom 
more enthusiastically than in the military training. The classes 
emphasized the regular and irregular ways in which the world operates... It was 
there that I rounded out my education... [The