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Flaneur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 03:04 PM
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Venezuela says 2 troops slain near Colombia border
Source: Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela – Two soldiers in Venezuela's National Guard have been shot to death near the border with Colombia.

State television says unidentified assailants gunned down the soldiers at a roadside checkpoint in the western state of Tachira. It says Monday's slayings were confirmed by the National Guard and police.

Phone calls to the National Guard's offices went unanswered. The guard is separate from Venezuela's army.

Colombian rebels, paramilitary groups and drug traffickers operate along the remote border.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_colombia_soldiers_killed
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clear eye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 03:12 PM
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1. And so it starts. n/t
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-04-09 12:57 AM
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2. Hopefully restraint is exercised.
This is a provocation designed to goad Venezuela into adventurism. I don't think it will fall into the trap.
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bitchkitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-04-09 02:25 AM
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3. Me neither - I think Chavez is too clever for them. n/t
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PhD Donating Member (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-05-09 12:22 AM
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4. Chavez is the goader, not the goadee?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-05-09 12:25 AM
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5. No, like all the entities on the Colombian border
he's just the beneficiary of our proxy war.
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