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 Colombia Claims FARC Planned to Make Dirty BombPosted on Mar 4, 2008Defending their position after the killing of members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Ecuador heightened tension among Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela over the weekend, Colombian officials said the slain FARC members had been plotting to make a dirty bomb.
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By Mac McKinney, March 5, 2008 at 2:40 pm #
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This is what the international Right-Wing does, lie, murder, then lie again to justify murder, demonize, terrorize, again and again. Columbia is carrying out honed US/Israeli tactics of fabricating evidence to destroy its enemies and victims with. Do not believe a damned thing that comes out of their mouths.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, March 5, 2008 at 8:37 am #
Exxon vs Mobil
Report thisBy P. T., March 5, 2008 at 1:05 am #
The Colombian government “security” forces and their paramilitary allies are up to their necks in the drug trade.
Report thisBy ApprxAm, March 4, 2008 at 11:51 pm #
“we firmly oppose any act of aggression that could destabilize the region,”. 2002 Antebellum Iraq? No, yesterday regarding Colombia v. Chavez. He seemed to be familiar with the phrase and expects the moral high ground. Oh my Prius, Toyota save us!
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, March 4, 2008 at 8:01 pm #
They wouldn’t be giving up the profitable cocaine trade which they are accustomed. They are nothing but bandits.
Report thisBy Maani, March 4, 2008 at 6:06 pm #
Joe:
My thoughts exactly. Just as OBL and Al Qaeda have become the all-purpose bogeymen in the “war on terror” - trotted out each time something “bad” happens or is planned (“carried out by Al Qaeda,” “lnked to Al Qaeda,” even “inspired by Al Qaeda” - a TRULY tenuous connection) - it seems like the dirty bomb is (or is going to become) the all-purpose bogey to create fear and panic in the general population - who, as you suggest, are unaware of what a dirty bomb actually is (and isn’t) or does (or doesn’t) do.
And because of their ignorance, the people will BUY it, and react accordingly.
Sad.
Peace.
Report thisBy P. T., March 4, 2008 at 6:03 pm #
Bush tipped off the Colombian government.
Report thisBy Joe Franks, March 4, 2008 at 5:15 pm #
This is hilarious: Washington’s servants in Bogotá attempting to copy their master’s propaganda; meanwhile the media dutifully spreads the propaganda, thereby literally making an otherwise harmless dirty bomb dangerous.
Dirty bombs cannot actually cause widespread harm due to radioactivity; they can only harm a population by inciting panic. By failing to point out the negligible risk of actual physical harm from a dirty bomb, the media actually gives them some potency as a weapon - if only as a panic-inducing weapon.
What a sorry state of affairs.
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