AWG ONLY This appears to me to be evidence that FARC may be adopting the IED ambush method. AWG ONLY
UNRESTRICTED http://199.181.132.144/International/wireStory?id=608023 Mar 23, 2005 — BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian rebels detonated a roadside bomb on Wednesday, killing 10 marines in a truck, the navy said. The marines were traveling in the country's southern jungles near the borders with Peru and Ecuador when they were attacked by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, navy commander Adm. Mauricio Soto told a news conference. The Marxist rebel army known as FARC emerged from a long period of relative inactivity this year and killed more than 50 government troops in February. It was an embarrassment for the armed forces, which had been saying the rebels were on the retreat after four decades of guerrilla war. President Alvaro Uribe, set to run for re-election next year, owes his 70-percent approval rating to tough policies against the FARC including more aggressive military action. The FARC has its origins in a communist peasant militia but has grown to number 17,000 thanks to funding from kidnapping and cocaine. Polls show rebels have little support in Colombia's cities but are able to move around fairly easily in impoverished rural areas effectively abandoned by the state. Copyright 2005 Reuters News Service. UNRESTRICTED ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
