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| Two U.S. Soldiers Detained in Colombia |
| 2005-05-04 |
| Dumbasses. Colombian police arrested two U.S. soldiers for alleged involvement in a plot to traffic thousands of rounds of ammunition â€" possibly to outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups, authorities said Wednesday. The two soldiers were detained during a raid Tuesday on a house in a gated community in Carmen de Apicala, southwest of the capital and near Colombia's sprawling Tolemaida air base, where many U.S. soldiers are stationed. National Police chief Gen. Jorge Daniel Castro said the two U.S. Army soldiers, whose names and ranks were not disclosed, were arrested at the house where a large cache of ammunition was discovered and that three Colombians were also involved. The Colombian attorney general's office said the arrested American soldiers had been in contact with a former Colombian police sergeant linked to paramilitary groups. The former policeman was also arrested, a spokeswoman for the attorney general said. The cache was composed of 32,000 rounds of ammunition sent to Colombia by the United States under its Plan Colombia aid program, aimed at crushing a leftist insurgency and the drug trafficking that fuels it, the attorney general's spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity. Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #1 What. The. F***. |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2005-05-04 18:46 |