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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-11 11:17 AM
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Ex-official: Nicaragua behind 1984 Costa Rica bomb
This information certainly doesn't fit the prevailing meme found in so many forum posts.

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A former Nicaraguan official said Friday that the country's Sandinista government was behind the bomb that killed three journalists and four rebels at a 1984 news conference in neighboring Costa Rica.

While the bombing had once been blamed on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, reports began surfacing in the 1990s that it had been part of a plot by the Sandinista government to kill Contra rebel leader Eden Pastora, who survived and still lives.

Luis Carrion, who served as assistant interior minister in the Sandinista government in the 1980s, told The Associated Press that his department arranged the bombing in attempt to kill Pastora, who was giving the conference.

"I can confirm it," Carrion said.

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More at: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-official-nicaragua-behind-1984-costa-rica-bomb-024803271.html
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