The Police Commandos are in large part the brainchild of another US counter-insurgency veteran, Steven Casteel, a former top DEA man who has been acting as the senior advisor in the Ministry of the Interior. Casteel was involved in the hunt for Colombia’s notorious cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, during which the DEA collaborated with a paramilitary organization known as Los Pepes, which later transformed itself into the AUC, an umbrella organization covering all of Colombia’s paramilitary death squads. (http://cocaine.org/colombia/pablo-escobar.html ; http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/040105isac.htm ).
Bush would like to revive the AUC. How can people possibly think this is a war against terror the United States is fighting when we so actively support terror?
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Bush is considering how to support the government of Colombia's efforts to demobilize the AUC with taxpayer money even though Colin Powell declared the AUC a terrorist organization on September 10, 2001, and in spite of the fact that Castaño, former leader of the AUC, now in Israel is wanted for extradition to the US on charges of cocaine trafficking.
The US has covertly supported the overthrow of Hugo Chavez to that end it is expected that Colombia will send troops at US insistence, possibly alongside US marines or Special Forces, or AUC units replete with Colombian soldiers.
Bush wants Chavez out, the AUC is one of the means mentioned to take Chavez out and Bush would like the AUC, terrorist organization par excellence, to be supported by US taxpayers. #msg-3967170
Now in a very curious announcement it appears the AUC who last week adamantly opposed the idea of joining the Colombian army will not join the army in battles against the nation's left-wing rebels according to an AUC proposal, but instead the paramilitary negotiators suggested they perform patrol duties and intelligence gathering.
Since the AUC was originally targeted by the US to assist in the downfall of Chavez the patrol duties and intelligence gathering will most probably be directed against Chavez and Venezuela.
Its no wonder Venezuela is loading up on military hardware. #msg-4374949
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