The Colombian publication El Tiempo has published the text of further documents provided by the government of Colombia and described as taken from the FARC computers of the late Raul Reyes seized by Colombia after its raid on Reyes' camp in Ecuador May 1. They describe FARC's efforts to assassinate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
The documents include an e-mail from April 15, 2002, which states that FARC failed in an attempt against President Uribe in Barranquilla in an incident in which FARC detonated a bomb near Uribe's motorcade. A second e-mail, dated April 22, 2002, states that the assassination attempt involved the use of three gas cylinders containing explosives which blew up five meters from Uribe's car, but were obstructed by a passing bus. The e-mail says that FARC had also set up a tape recorder to explode at Uribe's planned press conference containing cyanide-laced shrapnel, designed to explode five minutes after the play button was pressed. But in light of the failed first attempt, the FARC assassin instead vacated the scene early and did not proceed with the tape recorder bomb. |