-Caveat Lector-
maybe the army is getting tired of the beige uniforms and wants to get back
to good ol' Vietnam green.
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than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not
your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed
you. May your chains set lightly upon you.
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> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:12:56 -0500
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> Subject: [CTRL] What? No drug war? Columbia, Afghanistan, Iraq. How many will
> die for oil profits?
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: REUTERS: U.S. Seeks to Help Colombian Troops Defend Pipeline
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:50:52 -0600 (CST)
> From: Colombian Labor Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> [NOTE: Long gone are the days when U.S. military intervention
> in Colombia was packaged as "counter-narcotics aid." In the
> post-September 11 militaristic climate, the petroleum cartel
> that runs the White House has little problem re-packaging
> U.S. intervention as "counter-terrorist aid," and showing
> the true beneficiaries of Washington's munificence: the oil
> companies. But, then, we knew this all along, didn't we? -DG]
> ________________________
> REUTERS
>
> Tuesday, 5 February 2002
>
> U.S. Seeks to Help Colombian
> Troops Defend Pipeline
> ----------------------------
>
> By Jason Webb
>
> BOGOTA - The United States wants to train and equip Colombian troops to
> defend a key oil pipeline, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday,
> unveiling plans to turn U.S. aid more directly against rebels fighting a
> 38-year-old war.
>
> Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman said the Bush
> administration would ask Congress for $98 million to strengthen a
> Colombian army brigade to guard the 490-mile Cano Limon pipeline, whose
> oil field is operated by U.S. firm Occidental Petroleum Corp.
>
> The aid, which would likely include helicopters, comes on top of already
> massive U.S. assistance limited to wiping out cocaine and heroin
> production in the Andean nation.
>
> Grossman said helping protect the Cano Limon -- a favorite target of
> leftist rebels -- was part of Washington's commitment to help Colombians
> create a "terror-free democracy."
>
> "The war on terrorism will require every bit of state policy and every
> tool available to the state," Grossman told a news conference in Bogota as
> he wrapped up a three-day visit by a top-level U.S. delegation.
>
> The Bush administration sent to Congress on Monday a fiscal year 2003
> budget that included funds for training a second anti-drug brigade as part
> of a 14 percent increase in anti-narcotics spending in the Andean region.
> Of the $731 million proposed for the regional effort, $439 million was for
> Colombia.
>
> Wary of getting dragged into a conflict that has claimed 40,000 lives in
> the past decade, the United States has not granted President Andres
> Pastrana's request for authorization to use U.S. anti-narcotics aid
> against guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries in non-drug operations.
>
> On Tuesday, Grossman said the new aid will be modeled on training provided
> for a Colombian army anti-narcotics brigade, whose progress has pleased
> Washington.
>
> RIGHTS GROUPS CALL FOR END TO U.S. AID
>
> Washington-based Human Rights Watch called on Tuesday for the United
> States to end military aid to Colombia because its armed forces have not
> cut links with paramilitary outlaws.
>
> Grossman said the U.S. government will study the report.
>
> Keeping Cano Limon running will help Bogota fight the rebels at a critical
> time for struggling 3-year-old peace talks and provide money for funding
> its own war effort. Each day the country's second-largest oil pipeline is
> out of action, the Colombian government loses $2.3 million from oil sales
> alone.
>
> The 120,000-barrel-a-day duct, which is currently not in operation due to
> repairs, was bombed 170 times last year and has already been bombed at
> least 13 times in 2002.
>
> It is targeted by both the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- known
> by the Spanish initials FARC -- and the smaller National Liberation Army,
> or ELN, as part of extortion campaigns. The two rebel groups are dubbed
> "terrorist organizations" by the United States.
>
> The United States also wants to ensure oil supplies in the Andean region
> -- its second largest source of oil imports outside the volatile Middle
> East, officials said.
>
> Copyright 2002 Reuters
>
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