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FARC Uranium -- Yeah, Right (2 posts)

  1. truthmod
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    http://www.miamiherald.com/854/story/471631.html

    Colombian authorities said they seized up to 66 pounds of low-grade uranium hidden off the side of a road in southern Bogotá on Wednesday, which the Colombian Defense Ministry said belonged to FARC guerrillas.

    The Colombian government has used details of an alleged deal, to buy up to 50 kilos of uranium at $2.5 million a kilo, found in emails on Reyes' computer to prove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was planning to enter the international terrorism trade from its sanctuary set up in the jungle about one mile from the Colombia-Ecuador border.

    A ministry statement Wednesday said that on March 20 informants gave military intelligence officers a sample of uranium allegedly acquired by FARC rebels. Mining experts analyzed the sample and on Tuesday confirmed it to be ''impoverished'' uranium.

    The informants led the military to the rest of the stash in Pasquilla, a district in Bogotá's Comuna 20 neighborhood, the ministry said. The uranium was found Wednesday, hidden near the road that leads to San Juan de Sumapaz, a longtime rebel stronghold.

    ''This shows that these terrorist groups ... constitute a grave threat not just to our country but to the entire Andean region and Latin America,'' he added.

    The FARC has denied any uranium deal.

    ''Only developed nations like the United States and others have the conditions and the technology required to process uranium, not a guerrilla movement that still fights for people's dignity with rifles and even sticks,'' a FARC statement previously published by the Colombian media said.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. truthmover
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    This is the worst case of total disinformation we've yet seen. A real Office of Strategic Influence propaganda piece. Does anyone with their head screwed on actually think that the FARC guerrillas would be making dirty bombs that poison their own land? Looks like maybe we are planning on bringing the War on Terror a bit closer to home. Maybe to save some money?

    The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department created by the United States Department of Defense on October 30, 2001, to support the War on Terrorism through psychological operations in targeted countries. The OSI would have been a center for the creation of propaganda materials, for the stated purpose of misleading enemy forces or foreign civilian populations. Much of the OSI's responsibilities were shifted to the Information Operations Task Force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_I...

    [FARC] claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia’s wealthier classes and opposes the United States influence in Colombia (particularly Plan Colombia). Other prominent areas of focus for the FARC-EP include fighting against privatization of natural resources, multinational corporations, and paramilitary violence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC

    Posted 16 years ago #

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