You hit it. That necklace bomb had different fingerprints on it. 1. The FARC takes credit for its violent actions. 2. It has never used a necklace bomb or anything like it. This is just not in their modus operandi. Yes, they kill, they kidnap, but they have their ways. But this is a curve ball aimed at international cameras. Interesting that cameras were there. 3. The FARC, even when it messes up -- like with the murder of three presumed US human rights workers including a Native American leader in the past year -- takes public responsibility for its screw ups, and, as in that case, holds its own judicial hearings and punishes war crimes that it considers unjustified. Even to the point of executing its errant members. 4. The FARC is smarter than doing something like that which only serves to create the media backlash. They've learned a lot in 40 years. They're very very bright. Reporters who want to cover the guerrilla must learn to think like the guerrilla. It's like Mario Menéndez said to an academic who wanted to interview him for a book about the guerrilla in Latin America. "You can't possibly write a good book. You've never spent a night on the mountain." I've spent not as many as Mario, but more than a few, and very interesting times "on the mountain." The authentic guerrilla movements -- there are some notable phonies out there -- but the real ones like the FARC or the EZLN are very strategically intelligent. What benefit do they get out of a necklace bomb spectacle? None. Violence is not out of the realm, but stupidity is. Let's not forget that the FARC is drawing the Wrath of Washington precisely because it might win. They didn't get to this point by being idiots. They are very very shrewd. 5. Pastrana's rapid response. Canned, planned on air and land. He's desparate. He wants that DC money. He's not in control. Here's a tip: Washington might cut him loose and install General Serrano. For this, I must consider that he might have done this on his own, without instructions from headquarters. This could be the start of an internal struggle between Pastrana and Serrano, which, given that Serrano is documentably corrupt, could get very very interesting. Al Giordano http://www.narconews.com/ --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Daniel Hopsicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you all see the pictures in the paper today of the Colombian woman > necklaced' and blown to bits by a bomb, supposedly by Marxist guerrillas? > > I will bet EVERY PENNY--there aren't that many--that I have this this is a LIE... > a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident designed to create the conditions for war and > American intervention in that country. > > There was "Gulf of Tonkin One," a lie that created the Vietnam War. > > There was Gulf of Tonkin Two, the phony Nicaraguan Sandinista drug sting > which Barry Seal participated in, designed to give the Reagan Adminstration a > pretext to go to war with those drug scum commie bastards. > > And now this. > > If there was ONE "real" journalist in America, he or she would immediately FLY > to Colombia to investigate and expose this hoax. > > What are the chances? > > > Daniel Hopsicker > The Drug Money Times > http://www.MadCowProd.com > "All the news that's ripped from print!" > > Scandal in contemporary U.S. life is an institutionalized sociological > phenomenon. It is not due primarily to psychopathological variables, > but is due to the institutionalization of elite wrongdoing which has > occcurred since 1963." > > "Many of the scandals that have occurred in the U.S. since 1963 are > fundamentally interrelated: that is, the same people and institutions > have been involved." --Prof.David Simon, "Elite Deviance 6th edition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Air purifiers, bedding, household cleaning & more! gazoontite.com! http://click.egroups.com/1/4195/5/_/475667/_/958628381/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
