False positives recruiter 'received $500 per victim' (U.S. ally, Colombia)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

False positives recruiter 'received $500 per victim'
Monday, 05 December 2011 15:22
Aylish O'Driscoll

A 'false positives' recruiter testified on Monday to receiving $500 from the Colombian Army for each young man he recruited, who were then murdered and registered by the army as enemy guerrillas, reported Sante Fe Radio.

Speaking before a judge in Bogota today, Alexander Carretero Diaz testified to being hired by the army to recruit young men in the town of Soacha, south of Bogota, receiving payment of $500 for each successful recruit, plus travel and food expenses.

The young men were then murdered and registered by the army as enemy guerrillas killed in combat, to inflate the army's kill count of enemy units.

Diaz described recruiting 26-year-old Farid Leonardo Porras in Soacha in early 2008, before transporting him to Santander, northern Colombia, where he was reported as killed in combat soon after. According to Diaz, "I heard a while later that he had been killed, but I never knew by whom, or when, or why."

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20890-false-positives-recruiter-received-500-per-victim.html

[cliffordu]

1. I fully expect this to become a worldwide tactic.

Terra Terra Terra.

[Citizen Worker]

2. Colombia, another close US ally and run by a despot, but he's our despot and he follows orders from

D.C.

[DeSwiss]

3. ''Your tax/narco dollars at work......''

- K&R

[tclambert]

4. At $500 per "enemy" killed, our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could have killed billions!

Why is our military so cost inefficient? We're spending upwards of $100K per fake enemy killed. What a ripoff!

[No Elephants]

5. $500 for the life of each young, healthy man.

I'm not sure I want to be in this world.