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| Uribe points to evidence of ETA-FARC link |
| 2010-05-18 |
| Álvaro Uribe, the President of Colombia, said on Monday that "there have always been many pieces of evidence" of a possible cooperation between the Basque terrorist organization ETA and the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). In an interview with state-run TV station Televisión Española (TVE), Uribe said that eight or 10 years ago, when he was a presidential candidate, there were two attacks in which "the Colombian police told me that the explosives used by FARC were similar to those used by ETA or the Irish Republican Army (IRA)," Efe reported. "That is to say, there have been many pieces of evidence" of a possible cooperation between ETA and the FARC. "That's all I can say," the president stated. Regarding the investigations carried out by the Spanish justice into the alleged cooperation of the Venezuelan government with an alleged alliance between ETA and FARC to launch attacks in Spain against Colombian political leaders, including Uribe, the president said that cooperation among countries against terrorism was very important. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 A few years ago it was the IRA. FARC and their patron Chavez have linked up with some really nasty sorts. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-05-18 19:21 |