No. 2 Colombian rebel killed, government says

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Colombian forces on Saturday killed the second in command of the country's main rebel group, a strike the government said was the most significant yet.

Luis Edgar Devia Silva, known as Raul Reyes, died in a joint operation conducted by Colombian national police and military forces, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said.

The fighting took place just across the Ecuadorean border, he said.

Reyes was among 17 killed, Santos said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/01/colombia.rebel/index.html

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Memo to self: never take a job as the No. 2 guy.

Isn't that like the "bingo free spot" for gov't forces?

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. I wonder . . . Do the Colombian rebel's have as many "No.2" guys as AlCiada does?

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Just askin'

[nealmhughes]

2. Evidently it is the ever self-perpetuating #3 in Al Qaeda that gets Star Trek Red Shirted.

A veritable human hydra that guy is . . . .

[Peace Patriot]

3. What the hell are they doing, operating "just across the Ecuadorean border"!

Did they get permission from the Ecuador government?

These lawless Colombian security forces, in league with rightwing paramilitaries, have been slaughtering union leaders, small peasant farmers, community organizers, political leftists, human rights workers and journalists--and have also been dressing up the bodies of innocent dead people as guerrillas in order to ratchet up their "score"--which earns them billions and billions of our taxpayer dollars in military aid, passing through Bushite fingers. I don't trust their press releases. I don't trust anything they say. They are vile, brutal fascists in the pay of the Bush Junta.

And this recent "score"--whoever it is--is no doubt intended to grab headlines away from the issue of a potential negotiated peace settlement of this FORTY-PLUS year civil war, due to the dauntless efforts of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, in getting the FARC (Colombia's leftist guerrillas) to release hostages. Four more were released this week. FARC has asked for a de-militarized zone, to negotiate more hostage releases, and begin peace talks. Colombia' fascist government, on the other hand, depends on war and death for their livelihood from Washington. They will keep on killing leftist guerrillas and innocents until the money dries up. They do not want peace.

And guess who is in league with them?

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

[Peace Patriot]

4. If you want a sane view of these matters--and a good laugh--I recommend...

...www.BoRev.net. (I'm mean, sometimes you just gotta laugh--amidst you tears.)

It's a great web site on Bushite policy in Latin America--very informative, besides being hilarious.

And for the serious-minded: www.venezuelanalysis.com.

And for those who want a shot in the arm of love for democracy: "The Revolution Will Not be Televised" (at YouTube, also available at www.axisoflogic.com).

[AlphaCentauri]

5. Uribe can't resist those freed hostages n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. Monkey see, monkey do. ChimpenFührer lets Turkey invade Iraq, so if CF says OK

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It must be OK.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. Ecuador's president protests Colombian incursion

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200803020910.htm

QUITO, Ecuador (AP): President Rafael Correa announced Saturday that Ecuador will send a diplomatic note to protest Colombia's military incursion into Ecuador.

Correa questioned whether Colombian President Alvaro Uribe had been honest with him when he first informed him of the raid.

``The (Colombian) president either was poorly informed or brazenly lied to the president of Ecuador,'' Correa said. ``We are going until the ultimate consequences for a clarification of these scandalous actions that are an aggression on our territory.''