Sunday 22 December 2013

US 'helped kill Colombia rebel leaders'

Report alleges George W. Bush launched secret CIA programme that included "substantial eavesdropping help" from the NSA.

 A secret CIA programme helped Colombia kill at least two dozen FARC  leaders, The Washington Post has reported.

Washington's covert help in targeting Latin America's oldest insurgency, funded through a multibillion-dollar black budget, also includes "substantial eavesdropping help" from the National Security Agency, the newspaper said on Sunday.
The secret CIA programme - separate from the $9bn US aid package dubbed Plan Colombia, which launched in 2000 - was alleged to have been initially authorised by president George W. Bush around the same time
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It was thanks to US intelligence that the FARC number two, Raul Reyes, was found and killed in 2008, the report said.


US 'helped kill Colombia rebel leaders' - Americas - Al Jazeera English

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