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| Latin America |
| Two car bombs used in Bogota blast... |
| 2003-02-10 |
| Colombian investigators believe two carbombs may have been used in the attack on an exclusive social club that killed at least 33 people and injured 168 others. The bombing was Bogata's worst urban attack in decades. It unleashed a fire that gutted much of the nine storey building and hurled debris in a several block radius. I was right. They were trying for the same effect as the Islamists got in Bali... Yesterday rescuers continued sifting through the rubble and the building shell in a search for possible survivors and human remains. Rescuers worked meticulously and carefully, fearing that whole floors of the building could collapse due to structural damage. Authorities have blamed the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the blast. The 17,000-strong rebel force, engaged in a four decade war with the Colombian state, has recently stepped up its urban attacks. Called in the IRA for technical advice, too... Late yesterday President Alvaro Uribe called on Colombians for national unity against the attackers. "Colombia cries but does not surrender," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |