"Body count mentalities" Colombia's "False Positives" Scandal, Declassified (National Security

[bobthedrummer]

Archive Electronic Briefing Book 266 posted January 7, 2009)

"The CIA and senior U.S. diplomats were aware as early as 1994 that U.S.-backed Colombian security forces engaged in 'death squad tactics', cooperated with drug-running paramilitary groups, and encouraged a 'body count syndrome', according to declassified documents published on the Web today by the National Security Archive."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB266/index.htm

Some of US had close encounters with domestic death squads utilized by the administration of Richard Milhous Nixon against American citizens and groups on various lists of political enemies.

Subsequent presidential administrations streamlined and refined these murderous political thugs-often financed by the black budget operations derived from places like Colombia.

It's always time to speak the truth and demand accountability for what they did to US.

[juno jones]

1. As always

thank you BtD!

[acmavm]

2. Well of course they were. That's why they like Uribe so much. He's

THEIR kind of guy.

[Judi Lynn]

3. So damned glad you posted this. Looking so very seriously forward to examining it.

1994, eh? Unbearable, isn't it?.

The information on this absolutely evil system should come out NOW, and not decades later in the U.S., instead of keeping it buried as they were able to pull off regarding Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, and all of Central America, and Mexico, as well. So much has been accomplished to beat down and intimidate people in Latin America into total submission, terrified silence, done with our own tax dollars, and the involvement of our own military, training these ghouls right at Ft. Benning, Ga., at the School of the Assassins, and through the initiatives of countless witless, hatred-dripping fools in elected positions in government: scumballs like Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, and their loathesome, amoral impersonations of human beings.

Shocked to see this info. coming out now, and as you know there's a MOUNTAIN of other info. behind it which should most clearly be opened, and available to the very people who vote for the politicians, and provide the material resources for them.

From your link, something to make one wonder, considering the fact the Washington Post's Simon Romero's big featur last year was arranged to make it look like this is something he just discovered:

A declassified U.S. Embassy cable describing a February 2000 false positives operation in which both the ACCU paramilitaries and the Colombian Army almost simultaneously claimed credit for having killed two long-demobilized guerrillas near Medellín. Ambassador Curtis Kamman called it “a clear case of Army-paramilitary complicity,” adding that it was “difficult to conclude anything other than that the paramilitary and Army members simply failed to get their stories straight in advance.”

[bemildred]

4. What's this? They don't want the peasants to have their political and human rights?

They think it sets a "bad precedent"? Who knew?

[slipslidingaway]

5. Thanks K&R n/t

[slipslidingaway]

6. kick n/t