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| Five Colombian soldiers killed in clash with leftist rebels |
| 2008-05-04 |
| Colombia's military says five soldiers have been killed in the country's northeast in combat with leftist rebels. The local commander, Gen. Paulino Coronado, says the five were killed Friday in a rural area of Tibu, a hotly contested coca-growing region near the Venezuelan border. Coronado said Saturday his troops mounted the offensive in Tibu against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in February. Colombia's military command says the FARC blew a hole in the Cano Limon oil pipeline in the area on Wednesday, spilling 4,000 barrels of crude into the Tibu River. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 the FARC blew a hole in the Cano Limon oil pipeline in the area on Wednesday, spilling 4,000 barrels of crude into the Tibu River. Of course the international media were all over this deliberate environmental catastrophe. Wait, they weren't? Why could that have been? |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-05-04 00:29 |