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Judi Lynn

(160,644 posts) Wed Mar 28, 2012, 01:08 AM Mar 2012

Suspected death squad cars found at Argentine base

Source: Reuters

Suspected death squad cars found at Argentine base
Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:45pm EDT
By Luis Andres Henao

BUENOS AIRES, March 27 (Reuters) - Argentine investigators have unearthed 43 Ford Falcon cars that death squads may have used to abduct dissidents during the country's 1976-1983 "Dirty War," court documents published on Tuesday showed.

The Falcons conjure spine-chilling memories in Argentina because they were used to haul suspected leftists off for questioning during the military dictatorship, when up to 30,000 people were killed.

The rusty, dust-covered cars dating back more than 30 years were found in a warehouse at the Puerto Belgrano naval base, located near the city of Bahia Blanca in Buenos Aires province.

They will be searched for traces of blood, hair or any other evidence that might link them to the Dirty War, as part of a federal court investigation of crimes against humanity, court papers published by the official judicial news agency showed.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/27/argentina-dictatorship-falcon-idUSL2E8QR0OQ20120327?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews&rpc=401

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Photo of French nuns Léonie Duquet and Alice Domon,
tortured, dropped from airplane by the Argen. military.

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U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meets with Argentine foreign minister, Admiral Cesar
Augusto Guzzetti, at a later meeting on October 7, 1976 (Photo courtesy of Clarín.com (Argentina)[/font][/center]

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Suspected death squad cars found at Argentine base (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2012 OP

That was the last thing you wanted to hear pulling up in front of your house Common Sense Party Mar 2012 #1

Documented in the book, "Shock Doctrine" Grins Mar 2012 #2

Wow, who left those sitting around? gratuitous Mar 2012 #3

Kissinger, Pinochet, Guzzetti, CONDOR...los amigos de Bush. Octafish Mar 2012 #4

I drove past the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires a few years ago. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2012 #5

Common Sense Party

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1. That was the last thing you wanted to hear pulling up in front of your house

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 02:45 AM

Mar 2012

in the late '70s, was the engine of a Ford Falcon.

All the neighbors knew what was happening when they'd see those cars.

I'm very surprised it took them this long to find these cars--especially all stored in one place.

Grins

(7,239 posts)

2. Documented in the book, "Shock Doctrine"

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 01:40 PM

Mar 2012

Naomi Klein's book, Shock Doctrine, has chapters on these cars, all donated by Ford Motor Company. Ford also provided space in their factories where those picked up were taken to be tortured/killed.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

3. Wow, who left those sitting around?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 03:55 PM

Mar 2012

Murder will out, it is said. Will the wheels of justice grind fine enough to bring Nobel laureate Kissinger to the dock?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

4. Kissinger, Pinochet, Guzzetti, CONDOR...los amigos de Bush.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 01:50 PM

Mar 2012

They ordered and enabled the assassinations of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and American Ronnie Karpen Moffit... and Poppy didn not stop them, along with many other acts of terrorism.

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

5. I drove past the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires a few years ago.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 02:57 PM

Mar 2012

Another infamous torture center. Creeped me out.

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