And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Day Starr (*No-qui-si*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
Like Chiapas, FARC attempted to use the internet as a way to explain who
they were and what
they stood for. Their webpage and journal 'Resistancia" was "disappeared"
And here's a little something from 1998:
Monday, May 25, 1998 07:58 AM
Is the U.S. training Columbia soldiers?
Colombian soldiers combating drug traffickers and
guerrillas are benefiting
from
training exercises with U.S. Special Forces under a program
that avoids
restrictions
on general military aid, The Washington Post reported today.
The restrictions were imposed by the Clinton administration
in response to
Colombia's human rights and drug-fighting record.
While not forbidden, the training involving hundreds of
American troops each
year has
allowed the U.S. military to play a more direct and
autonomous role in
Colombia than
officials publicly have indicated, the paper said.
The story in today's editions said the training was
authorized under a 1991
law --
known as JCET (Joint Combined Exchange Training) that
permits U.S. Special
Forces to train on foreign soil if the training is designed
primarily to
benefit the U.S.
troops.
The report said that, while not secret, the training in
Colombia has been
sensitive
enough that few in Congress are aware of it and the
exercises have been
suspended
this month as Colombia holds presidential elections.
The same program was invoked for U.S. troops to conduct 41
training
exercises with
Indonesia over the past seven years even though many
members of Congress
believed they had curtailed military ties with that
country, the report
said.
Defense Secretary William Cohen suspended the Indonesia
program two weeks
ago
because of turmoil there.
``We consider JCET an important program because it allows
us to train in
different
areas of the world and to learn how other militaries
operate,'' Pentagon
spokesman
Kenneth Bacon was quoted as saying. ``It also allows us to
learn important
skills.
We did this under the terms of the law. It was totally
legal and reported to
Congress.''
Without going into detail, Bacon referred in an April 14
Pentagon briefing
to ``a
military mission of about 200 people in Colombia manning
radars and doing
other
things to try to stop the flow of drugs out of Colombia and
out of the
region
generally.''
He said at the briefing that, ``We are not involved in
counterinsurgency
operations in
Colombia and we don't have any plans to become involved.
What we are doing
is
working with the Colombian military through training
programs ... small unit
exchanges, educational programs, to try to make the
Colombian military more
professional. That's a program that's been going on for
some time.''
John Russell wrote:
> John Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
> I was thinking the same thing about these press reports for several
days........
> something stinks here most definitely. Why would the FARC kill three
Americans when they
> know it would lead to American intervention and only hurt their cause? It
just doesn't
> make any sense.
>
> I smell a deliberate set up here.
>
> John
>
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