Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
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Key figures in Colombia's political and media establishment are lining up behind Uribe and his attack on Ecuadoran territory. Cardinal Pedro Rubiano, the archbishop of Bogota, justified the incursion, saying, "if it hadn't been done, we would not have discovered any of this diabolical plot" between the FARC and the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela.
Colombia's national Radio RCN reported that Raúl Reyes was located by Colombian intelligence when he used his satellite phone to personally call Hugo Chávez.
There have also been some voice of dissent within the political establishment. Ex-president Ernesto Samper urged Uribe to reconsider to bring charges against Chávez at The Hague, saying that Colombia's indepenent Assessor Commission on Foreign Relations had determined the move would meet with little success.
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Louise Arbour called on all sides in the conflict to refrain from extrajudicial executions. (La Jornada, Mexico, March 5)
Meanwhile, the FARC released four tourists it had taken hostage in January, turning them over to the Red Cross near Nuqui in Choco department. Two other who were taken with the four—Onshuus Nino Alf, a professor at Bogota's University of the Andes who holds both Colombian and Norwegian nationality, and student Jorge Torres—were not released. (AFP, March 6)
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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Colombian political figures react to crisis
Key figures in Colombia's political and media establishment are lining up behind Uribe and his attack on Ecuadoran territory. Cardinal Pedro Rubiano, the archbishop of Bogota, justified the incursion, saying, "if it hadn't been done, we would not have discovered any of this diabolical plot" between the FARC and the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela.
Colombia's national Radio RCN reported that Raúl Reyes was located by Colombian intelligence when he used his satellite phone to personally call Hugo Chávez.
There have also been some voice of dissent within the political establishment. Ex-president Ernesto Samper urged Uribe to reconsider to bring charges against Chávez at The Hague, saying that Colombia's indepenent Assessor Commission on Foreign Relations had determined the move would meet with little success.
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Louise Arbour called on all sides in the conflict to refrain from extrajudicial executions. (La Jornada, Mexico, March 5)
Meanwhile, the FARC released four tourists it had taken hostage in January, turning them over to the Red Cross near Nuqui in Choco department. Two other who were taken with the four—Onshuus Nino Alf, a professor at Bogota's University of the Andes who holds both Colombian and Norwegian nationality, and student Jorge Torres—were not released. (AFP, March 6)