‘Human Rights’ friends of the Columbian terrorists

Posted on July 7, 2008

As we learn more about the Colombian military’s daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands out: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a helicopter, undercover special forces simply told the comandantes that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious nongovernmental organization sympathetic to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission.

It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location.

I am reminded of President Alvaro Uribe’s 2003 statement that some “human rights” organizations in his country were fronts for terrorists. Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd got his back up over Mr. Uribe’s statement, and piously lectured the Colombian president about “the importance of democratic values.”

But as the helicopter story suggests, Mr. Uribe seems to have been right. How else to explain the fact that the FARC swallowed the line without batting an eye?

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Leftist French media give Columbia no credit for rescuing Frenchwoman: “It turns out that Alvaro Uribe is not - at least not directly - responsible for the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt (the other 14 freed hostages seem to have been forgotten in France), according to Fanny Hess. International pressure on the Colombian president is. In the meantime, Beret Vert reports that Ingrid (who compares Colombia’s army to Israel’s) is herself being compared to Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King on French TV, while Uribe is barely mentioned.”

And the BBC is no better. They call the rescue of the hostages a release, as if the guerillas did it out of the goodness of their hearts.

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2 Responses to “‘Human Rights’ friends of the Columbian terrorists”

Tazz on July 7th, 2008 11:05 am

Gateway pundit added this interesting twistNew information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was doing this while at the same time she refused to bring a free trade agreement with Colombia up for a vote in the US House. In fact, Pelosi took extraordinary steps to block this trade agreement with America’s closest ally in South America.http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/dem-shocker-speaker-pelosi-was-sending.html
The Machine on July 7th, 2008 5:39 pm

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