Reply #2: Interpol: Colombia has real rebel data

[Bacchus39]

"We are absolutely certain that the computer exhibits that our experts examined came from a FARC terrorist camp," said Interpol's secretary general, Ronald Noble, adding: "No one can ever question whether or not the Colombian government tampered with the seized FARC computers."

Colombian commandos recovered the three Toshiba Satellite laptop computers, two external hard drives and three USB memory sticks after destroying the rebel camp just across the border in Ecuador. FARC foreign minister Raul Reyes and 24 others were killed in the March 1 raid.

Chavez has mocked Colombia's revelations about "the supposed computer of Raul Reyes" and questioned how a computer could survive a bombardment. He denies arming or funding the FARC, though he openly sympathizes with Latin America's most powerful rebel army.

Venezuela's embassy in Washington accused U.S. and Colombian officials of using the Interpol report to "spread the most reckless and irresponsible accusations" in a coordinated campaign that "closely resembles the steps usually taken by the Bush administration in order to generate ... instability and wars in other countries."

But Interpol was emphatic that the documents are authentic, and said the computers were found in metal cases that protected them during the raid.

"Mr. Reyes is now dead. But they were definitely his computers, his disks, his hardware," Noble said.

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