Santos tells Colombian military to 'get tough' with rebels

Santos tells Colombian military to 'get tough' with rebels
(AFP) – 1 day ago

BOGOTA — President Juan Manuel Santos Friday vowed to step up a military crackdown on leftist rebels after they killed 14 police officers and three soldiers since he took office on August 7.

"The order I've given military and police commanders is to get tough, get tough, get tough!" Santos said after a cabinet meeting.

"We can't let our guard down. We must confront terrorism with everything we've got," he added, vowing to continue the crackdown on insurgents his predecessor Alvaro Uribe launched in 2002 and which he spearheaded as Uribe's defense minister from 2006-2009.

Santos, 59, spoke in southern Caquete department, where the latest rebel attack on Wednesday took the lives of 14 police officers when their patrol vehicle was blown up by a land mine.

The bombing was blamed on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's oldest and strongest rebel group that has offered talks with the government, which Uribe and now Santos have conditioned on an end to their violence.

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From Wikipedia, a definition:

False flag operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

Clearly the "pretext" could also be used as the excuse for a continuation of a materially profitable war against its own citizens by a regime.

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"The false WHAT?"

Looks like he gives himself away in the company of wise men. Probably makes him nervous.

That is a great one.