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God, I hope that psyops project gets exposed! I think it was a Rumsfeld "Office of Special Plans" operation, because of Rumsfeld's injection of himself into the Colombia/Venezuela effort to get FARC hostages released. Uribe asked Chavez to help (circa 2007). Chavez agreed. He contacted the FARC to negotiate hostage releases. Therein lies a long, complicated tale of probable Uribe treachery. But when the first two hostages were scheduled to be released, to Chavez, Uribe suddenly withdrew his request (using a flimsy excuse) simultaneous with a Rumsfeld op-ed in the Washington Post (12/1/07), entitled "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez," in which, in the first paragraph, Rumsfeld stated that Chavez's help with hostage releases was "not welcome in Colombia" (though it had been days before.)
Why was Rumsfeld suddenly interested in this negotiation, a year after he had resigned from the Pentagon?
Fast forward, to three months later. Chavez had gottn a total of 6 hostages released, despite the Colombian military firing on the first hostages. And, despite pleas from around the world to continue, including from the remaining hostages' families and the president of France, Chavez had to stop these hostage release efforts, as too dangerous for the hostages. The effort shifted to Ecuador. The FARC's hostage release negotiator, Raul Reyes, set up a temporary camp, just inside Ecuador's border, to release high profile hostage, Ingrid Betancourt (a French/Colombian citizen) and others. Her family had been alerted. French, Swiss and Spanish envoys had entered Ecuador and were on the way to Reyes' camp, to receive Betancourt, when they were given a warning "(Everybody in the camp is going to be killed"), and that night, the U.S./Colombia dropped ten 500 lb U.S. "smart bombs" on Reyes' camp, and raided over the border to shoot any survivors in the back, as they fled for their lives. Everyone had been asleep (as later assessed by the Ecuadoran military). On the raid over the border, the Colombian military allegedly seized Reyes' laptop (later, laptopS), in tact, from the bombed out site, and ever since that time, the "miracle laptops" have provided the Colombian government with a bottomless source of lies with which to slander their "enemies," both domestic and foreign.
The laptops had been so mishandled that Interpol declared that they could not be used in a court of law. (--something that I hope that this harassed journalist's lawyer knows--I imagine he does). NO ONE but the Colombian government and military (and perhaps their U.S. military "advisors"?) has ever seen the contents of the laptops. Interpol did not do so (and indeed did not hire ANY Spanish translators in their investigation of the computers, specifically to avoid reviewing the contents). This saga has gone on and on, but the upshot of it is that the laptops are a debunked and discredited source. Yet they keep arising again, like vampires, to be used again to slander and harass all sorts of people--people in faraway lands who support leftist causes in Colombia; and the presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador, who have both been the victims of "miracle laptop" slander.
The great irony of the slander against Chavez concerning his contacts with the FARC is that Uribe had ASKED him to contact the FARC. This latter has a Rumsfeldian sulfur smell--the smell of pure evil. Was the whole thing a Rumsfeld-designed plot, all along, to draw Chavez in, with the lure of getting hostages released and maybe brokering peace in Colombia's 40+ year civil war, then to hand him a diplomatic disaster with dead hostages (the Colombian military firing on them), and, finally, to concoct a case that he is a 'terrorist-lover' based on those very contacts? Or was it a matter of a genuine request by Uribe, that Rumsfeld, or those being tutored by Rumfeld's OSP, seized upon, opportunistically, to, a) end all talk of peace, with the bombing/raid; and b) create an endless supply of anti-Chavez and anti-left allegations of "terrorism" (that all-purpose excuse for harassing, arresting, torturing and slaughtering lots of people)?
I don't know for sure. Maybe it was clever minds in Uribe's own entourage of spies, "list" creators, dirty tricksters, drug lords and assassins. Maybe the Colombian military used some that $7 BILLION in military aid, larded upon them by the U.S., to develop their own "tech teams." Maybe it was Blackwater (recently "fined" by the State Department for allegedly unauthorized "trainings" of Colombians for use in Iraq and Afghanistan). I just hope that the mystery of the "miracle laptopS" gets investigated and fully exposed. It is way, WAY bad that this crap is being used to reach into another country, and threaten and harass a journalist.
In Colombia, it is common practice for the government's hit squads to issue death threats against government opponents, and for the death threats, often, to be carried out--against journalists, trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers and community activists of various kinds, and peasant farmers (to steal their lands) and peasant farmer organizers (to kill their ideas and terrorize the survivors). But it is especially bad that they think they can do this to someone in Venezuela--to threaten, intimidate and try to silence yet another voice against their evil rule.
This is not the first time they have used the "miracle laptopS" this way, and I fear it will not be the last. But attacking a journalist is especially destructive of the common good. It seeks to replace real information with brainwashing, lying, psyops and disinformation. Lacking real information, society becomes a loony bin--as we have seen happen in both the U.S. and Colombia (and, recently, in Honduras)--an "Alice in Wonderland" world where everything is upside down, inside out and backwards. THAT is a Rumsfeldian world.
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