Reply #2: Article yesterday

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... The possible participation of CIA agents might have been a strategy to gain support for Plan Colombia, a Colombian government anti-drug initiative into which the United States had poured more than $3 billion, Vargas said.

He noted that Fujimori, who governed from 1990-2000, had then stated his fear that the Colombian conflict might spill over into neighboring countries, including Peru.

Vargas added that Fujimori, who enjoys asylum in his ancestral homeland of Japan, may possibly have "been involved" in smuggling arms to the FARC. The Jordanian rifles were dropped by parachute from planes flying over the Colombian jungle. EFE gta/rws/dr

http://www.efenews.com/includesasp/noticias.asp?opcion=0&id=5915157

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IMO, the US could care less about FARC's or the narcos activities. What they want to do is protect their OIL interests, and that becomes difficult when you have insurgents (FARC and ELN) in a 40 year old civil war.

The irony is that Colombia is the world's third largest recipient of US aid and also holds the hemisphere's record for the worst human rights abuses. 85% of the US aid goes directly to the military who in turn trains and advices the paramilitaries who, along with FARC and ELN are on the US terrorist list. The paras, however, carry out 70% of the atrocities in OIL-RICH Colombia mostly on OIL-RICH ancestral land belonging to the indigenous. The result is many massacres and 2.5 million people displace as well as more union leaders murdered than in any other country. Our tax dollars at work. What happened in Central America is happening today in Colombia, but the press never reports about it. :puke:

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Dec2003/x-Dec2003-Livingstone.html