Unasur, Argentina, Venezuela condemn car-bomb “terrorist action” in Colombia

[maddezmom]

Source: Mercopress.com

Argentine former president Nestor Kirchner and Unasur chairman expressed in the name of the organization its “most energetic repudiation” of the attack which occurred close to the building that hosts Colombia’s most important broadcasting network, Caracol.

“We express our total solidarity with the Colombian people and President Santos”, said Kirchner who revealed that he had contacted the Colombian government to reiterate the commitment of all Unasur countries to ensure the maintenance of peace in the region.

The Argentine government communiqué remarked that the attack “was a clear attempt to intimidate the new measures announced by new Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, which are tended to promote peace and stability in both Colombia and the region”.

Finally “the Argentine government expresses its total solidarity with the Colombian people, and rejects all kind of terrorist activities, which no matter what won't be able to stop the democratic and pacific will showed by all South American nations”.


Read more: http://en.mercopress.com/2010/08/13/unasur-argentina-venezuela-condemn-car-bomb-terrorist-action-in-colombia

[Judi Lynn]

1. Interesting timing: "Colombian army officials accused of allegedly faking terrorist attacks"

Colombian army officials accused of allegedly faking terrorist attacks
Friday, September 8, 2006

Based on an ongoing investigation by Colombian prosecutors, Colombian's leading newspaper El Tiempo published a report claiming that some Colombian officers from the Army's 13th Brigade would have fabricated a number of terrorist attacks in the weeks prior to the inauguration of president Alvaro Uribe's second term in office, and that they would have paid for the cooperation of demobilized members of the leftist guerrilla group FARC, in particular that of a woman known as "Jessica".

The allegedly fake attacks, most of which were presented as foiled by the actions of Army, would have had the purpose of allowing the officers involved to show "positive" results in the fight against terrorism before the public and the government. Security measures had been tightened during the days prior to August the 7th, when Uribe initiated his second term in office. Four years before, during the inauguration ceremony of Uribe's first term in office, a number of handmade rockets were launched by FARC from houses in the city's center, causing minor material damage to the presidential palace and killing several people from a nearby neighborhood.

One of the incidents that have come under questioning happened on July 31, 2006 in the north of Bogotá, during which a truck-bomb killed a garbage collector and wounded ten soldiers who were driving past in a military truck. The Army's commander acknowledged on September 7 that two military officers are under investigation: "The recent attack with a car bomb, in which ten soldiers were wounded and a citizen died, and which had been attributed to outlawed groups, as well as the alleged confiscation of several explosives during the last two months, apparently do not to correspond to reality. These deceptions may have been carried out by unscrupulous people, including two army officials".

In addition to the case of the truck-bomb, doubts now surround a number of other related incidents, including the confiscation of several kilos of explosives, the discovery of a house-bomb and of three other car bombs in the latest weeks. In one of these cases, according to El Tiempo, witnesses said that the same man that abandoned a taxi bomb in the south of the capital was the same man who claimed the cash rewards for the tip-off.

More:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Colombian_army_officials_accused_of_allegedly_faking_terrorist_attacks

[rabs]

2. Colombian media speculating that it was the FARC

but .... how about the hard-core uribistas highly pissed off at new president Santos?

-- uribito provokes rupture in diplomatic relations with Venezuela days before leaving office.

-- Santos three days after being inaugurated restores relations in meeting with Hugo Chavez, uribito's arch enemy.

-- Santos, with only one day in office, an unexplained fire destroys very sensitive files in tribunals building in Bogota.

-- Santos' Foreign Minister Maria Angelica Holguin announces Wednesday that there will be NO international investigation of Colombian guerrillas in Venezuela, as demanded by uribito. Holguin cuts the floor from under alvarito's claims at the International Criminal Court and the OAS

-- Car bomb goes off in Bogota on Thursday. At 5:27 a.m., when few people are circulating. First time in years a car bomb had hit the capital.

So, is uribe sabotaging Santos?

-- Of course uribito has an alibi; he is in New York "investigating" the Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish ferry that left nine dead and several wounded.