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Date: March 27, 2007 5:57:36 PM PDT
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Subject: Fwd: Colombian Army Linked to Terrorists Backed by CIA
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From: "Jim S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 26, 2007 8:30:57 PM PDT
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Subject: C.I.A. Claims Colombian Army, Terrorists Linked
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http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/
16971008.htm
*C.I.A. Claims Colombian Army, Terrorists Linked*
By Paul Richter and Greg Miller
Los Angeles Times
Posted on Sun, Mar. 25, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The C.I.A. has obtained new intelligence that the
head of
Colombia's American-backed army collaborated extensively with right-
wing militias
that the U.S. considers terrorist organizations, including a
militia headed by
one of the country’s leading drug traffickers.
Disclosure of the allegation about army chief Gen. Mario Montoya
comes at a time
when the high level of U.S. support for Colombia’s government is
under scrutiny
from Democrats in Congress.
The disclosure could heighten pressure to reduce or redirect that
aid because
Montoya has been a favorite of the Pentagon and an important U.S.
partner in the
U.S.-funded counterinsurgency strategy called Plan Colombia. The
$700 million a
year Colombia receives makes it the third-largest beneficiary of
U.S. foreign
assistance.
Montoya has a long and close association with Colombia's president,
Alvaro Uribe,
and would be the highest-ranking Colombian officer implicated in a
growing
political scandal in Colombia over links between the outlawed
militias and top
officials. The scandal has implicated the country's former foreign
minister, at
least one state governor, legislators and the head of the national
police and has
shaken Uribe's government.
President Bush called Uribe a "personal friend" during a visit to
Bogota, the
Colombian capital, two weeks ago, and his government is one of the
Bush
administration’s closest allies in Latin America.
The intelligence about Montoya is contained in a report circulated
within the
C.I.A. It says that Montoya and a paramilitary group jointly
planned and
conducted a military operation in 2002 to eliminate Marxist
guerrillas from poor
areas around Medellin, a city in northwestern Colombia that has
been a center of
the drug trade.
At least 14 people were killed during the operation, and opponents
of Uribe
charge that dozens more disappeared in its aftermath.
The intelligence report, reviewed by the Los Angeles Times,
includes information
from another Western intelligence service and indicates that U.S.
officials have
received similar reports from other reliable sources.
In addition to his close cooperation with U.S. officials on Plan
Colombia,
Montoya has served as an instructor at the U.S.-sponsored military
training
center formerly called the School of the Americas.
The Colombian general was praised by Marine Gen. Peter Pace, now
chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, when Pace directed the regional military
command for Latin
America, and Montoya has been organizing a new Colombian
counternarcotics task
force with American funds.
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