Please see: Running With the "Rescue"
"The 15 hostages released on Wednesday by the Colombian army 'were in reality ransomed for a high price, and the whole operation afterwards was a set-up.'"
And if they are lying about this, then....
"Loss of hostages embarrasses, weakens Colombian rebel group" by Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times | July 6, 2008
BOGOTÁ - FARC is being squeezed for the money it needs to sustain its operations.
Now the FARC has lost its trophy hostages: former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three US defense contractors whom the rebels viewed as shields against government attacks.
But they got $20 MILLION in ransom!!!!!
The nature of the rescue mission - in which government agents posed as rebels and freed the hostages without firing a shot - was widely seen as a deep humiliation and public relations disaster for the FARC.
Colombia military officials said yesterday that they found explosives that were to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for the rescue mission, Reuters reported. The officials said about a ton of explosives was seized at a farm outside Bogotá that they suspected FARC planned to use in attacks over the next few days.
What BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA!!!!
Losers on the run, yet ready to bomb!
I'm NO LONGER FALLING FOR SHIT GOVERNMENT FOOLEYS!!!!
Security officials cautioned that the rebel group retains some sting.
Sigh! Pffffffftttt!
President Álvaro Uribe's strategy of aggressively taking the fight to the FARC, backed by a $5 billion US aid package, appears to have seriously degraded the rebels' ability to challenge the state.
The FARC no longer controls any significant towns and has been reduced to a series of bands operating in isolated redoubts with fragmented central command.
Is FARC and "Al-CIA-Duh" the SAME THING?
So WHICH CIA AGENT is RUNNING FARC?
Defectors also say that midlevel commanders live in fear of being turned in by fighters for hefty ransoms offered by the Colombian government. In one notorious case this year, a guerrilla killed his superior in return for a government payout, providing authorities with the slain leader's bloody hand as proof of his treachery.
The group's cash-flow woes seem to be a paradox considering its revenues from Colombia's booming cocaine trade, which the FARC long ago embraced along with kidnapping as means to finance its war.
WTF?
If you are going to lie, MSM, could you please NOT CONTRADICT YOUR LIES in the SAME ARTICLE?
But a crackdown on exchange houses used by the group to launder money has sapped available cash, according to a US intelligence source.
Oh, that explains everything.
In some cases, the FARC has been reduced to using chits instead of cash to pay cultivators of the coca leaf, the principal ingredient in cocaine, said a Colombian intelligence officer. Colombian officials say low-ranking guerrilla fighters are bearing the brunt of the cash shortage. Defectors and former hostages have described a lack of staples.
WTF do you make of that story, huh?
How come "terrorists" are always being beaten and defeated, but always a "threat" at any moment?!
Yeah, readers, I am tired of the bullshit; thanks for asking!
