The FARC in Europe
Police in Spain arrested a Spanish woman accused of helping the FARC coordinate meetings and funnel money through Europe (primarily Switzerland and Sweden). Her name came out of Raúl Reyes' files. Interestingly, she will be facing Judge Baltasar Garzón, who is famous for going after Augusto Pinochet.
I assume that more information about the FARC's European ties will be forthcoming, and more arrests will be made. However, I am not sure how much having these contacts disrupted will hurt them, since their primary sources of revenue come from within Colombia. Nonetheless, the Colombian government is clearly reaping the benefits of the information from the laptops and flash drives. Now they have this woman's computer and, as Boz pointed out a few days ago, the government seized another FARC member's laptop as well.
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Is it just me, or does it seem like Colombia is doing better hunting down the FARC than the US is hunting down Al Qaeda?
Maybe Al Qaeda isn't putting info on laptops.
Considering Colombia's military and intelligence has been after this prey for 40+ years...and the prey resides largely inside Colombia....
Garzon is one of my heroes. Not just for Pinochet, buit also for his consistency. He had no problem issuing indictments for ETA members or for those behind GAL, the government sponsored death squads attacking ETA members. The world would do well with more judges like him.
Anonymous GS said...
Considering Colombia's military and intelligence has been after this prey for 40+ years...and the prey resides largely inside Colombia....
8:22 PM
To begin with the "hunting grounds" are enormous. And the "prey" in this case has never been easy to deal with - . Not when they were a bunch of hillbilly Stalinists in the uber-violent Colombian backwoods, nor when they mutated into a self-financed army - and worlds largest kidnapping and extortion ring.
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