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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-23-08 11:43 PM
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Photos Allegedly From FARC PC Undermine Colombian Credibility
Edited on Fri May-23-08 11:59 PM by struggle4progress
May 23rd 2008, by Daniel Denvir - NACLA

A series of photos allegedly found on the laptops of Raúl Reyes, the FARC leader killed when the Colombian government bombed and raided a FARC encampment across the Ecuadoran border, appear to have actually been taken by Colombian intelligence agents — or by allied police or intelligence agents — in Quito, Ecuador. The photos were supplied to the Bogota daily El Tiempo by an anonymous Colombian intelligence source on Monday March 3, just two days after the raid on the encampment ...

The photos, taken down about a week after they were uploaded, briefly formed part of a broad and systematic media campaign on the part of the Colombian government to link the Ecuadoran and Venezuelan governments to the FARC. The campaign has been waged through a combination of public denunciations and anonymous leaks to news outlets in Colombia, the United States, and Spain.

The photos were taken inside and outside of Quito’s Casa de Cultura arts and convention center during the international conference of the Continental Bolivarian Coordinating Committee (CCB) the week before the attack. The CCB is a small left-wing organization with ties to the FARC and chapters throughout Latin America.

The photos, which now appear to be intelligence photos, were included in a Web gallery on El Tiempo’s Web site of photos purportedly found on Reyes’s laptop. When I came across the photos my first question was “Why would the FARC take intelligence photos of their supposed allies?” ...

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3483
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 01:36 AM
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1. Good grief! One can only shake one's head in disgust. This is amazing.
Edited on Sat May-24-08 01:51 AM by Judi Lynn
No surprise here, is it? Exactly as dirty as you'd think they are.

As I understand it, as they stuffed their material into the laptop, they didn't remove some of their surveillance, is that it? So it came out accidently, if you believed they found the photos there, looking as if Reyes was following around people he already knew, taking photos of them for identification? Now that's original. Now that would take up a lot of their time, and be perfectly useless as well, since they already knew who all the people were anyway.

So there's no explanation. I'll bet! Assholes.

If you see another word on this please let us know. This is priceless. Buffoons. They'll simply deny everything but people do know what they did, regardless.
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