assassination attempt on US President George W Bush

[UnknownMan]

The largest guerrilla group in Colombia ordered an assassination attempt on US President George W Bush during a recent visit there, a senior official says.
Colombian Defence Minister Jorge Alberto Uribe said Mr Bush was targeted in the city of Cartagena last Monday.

Informers and other intelligence sources revealed the attempt, he said.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have long accused the US of meddling in the country's 40-year civil war.

The Farc's seven-man ruling body ordered guerrilla units to make an attempt on Mr Bush's life, Mr Uribe said.

Long list of reasons

The Colombian authorities insisted that the attempt was thwarted by the heavy security net thrown up around the US president which, apart from his own secret service details, included 15,000 members of the Colombian security forces.

The Farc have a long list of reasons for wanting Mr Bush dead, most pressing is the fact that Washington provides over $600m in mainly military aid to Bogota and supplies intelligence from US listening stations, satellites and spy planes that are focused on Colombia.

Another reason is the issue of extradition.

The US has indicted much of the Farc high command on drugs trafficking charges and two senior Farc commanders in prison seem set to sent to face American justice.

The fact that the guerrillas would even consider killing the most powerful and heavily protected man on earth shows that US involvement in Colombia is so deep that the rebels feel they have very little to lose.




http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4047199.stm

[rpannier]

1. I'm not sure I believe this story

I've been watching it on CNN-Asia and I'm not sure I believe they were plotting to assassinate him. I want a more reliable source than the Colombian Defense Minister.

[PATRICK]

2. Ludicrous on its face

Of course it is well to remind Mr. Bush of all the enemies he as made but said enemies here could as easily conquer all of Columbia as break through the security cordon. If wishes were bullets, but this is just a routine alarm blown out of proportion for some political purpose.

This will of course encourage other groups to "order an attempt" to get attention until it becomes fairly routine. However, Bush can choose to use these empty threats to suit his purposes whenever he wants.

Ho-hum.

[UnknownMan]

3. i heard in internet an arabian man who is magican

who said three months ago ,, that President of UAE will die in Ramadan and will follow by yaser araft after that president of kuwait ** well thats what happened **

also said that bush will be assassinated like JFK early 2005! mean by the CIA!..


Lets wait and see

but sound stupid

[Massacure]

5. Since 1840 every president has died in office or come close to it.

I'm pretty damn sure choking on a pretzel doesn't count too!!!


1840 - William Henry Harrison......pneumonia
1860 - Abraham Lincoln......assassination
1880 - James Garfield......assassination
1900 - William McKinley.......assassination
1920 - Warren Harding........heart failure
1940 - Franklin Roosevelt.......cerebral hemorrhage
1960 - John Kennedy.....assassinated
1980 - Ronald Reagan.....shot but lived
2000 - George W. Bush.....pretzel???

[ridgerunner]

10. Correct me if I'm wrong

but doesn't that have something to do with the curse of the Prophet?

[Yogi]

12. curse of the Prophet?

Please explain.....

[ridgerunner]

13. My computer is acting funny, I can't right click

but this site explains it http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys4/prophet.htm

not sure if the link is working, my computer is starting to crash, weird. But the gist of goes like this this. The Prophet, brother to Tecumsah, put a curse on William Henry Harrison after the Battle of the Thames

[The Zanti Regent]

11. It's another lie

I do not beleive there was any plot.

This is another CNN lie.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Welcome to DU and good luck.

[UnknownMan]

7. thanks Swamp rat :)

[Carl Brennan]

6. They are just trying to bait DU'ers

into saying what I was thinking, so they can group us with the FARCies. IMHO of course. }(

[kentuck]

8. "W" has enemies everywhere.....

We must protect him from those that would criticize him. The NYTimes, Dan Rather, Michael Moore, and all his other enemies must be defeated. We must defend our leader. It doesn't matter if he has done a terrible, sucky job as president. We can't let his enemies destroy him.

[blueknight]

9. its probably true

everyone in the fucking world hates him, why would you all find this hard to believe?