Here's a story which didn't see the light of day here, oddly enough!

[Judi Lynn]

Thursday, December 02, 2010 19:15 GMT

US Gov't Document Links García to 1980s Death Squads
Lucy Komisar*

NEW YORK, 5 Dec (IPS) - There is irony in the recent announcement by Peru's President Alan García that he would publish the names of 1,800 'freed terrorists', so that people might recognise and report them if they were participating in anti-state conspiracies. His list includes people imprisoned on false charges or never convicted or sentenced.

One name that is not on the list is that of Alan García. However, according to a declassified U.S. government document, García, during his first administration from 1985-1990, gave instructions to terror squads organised by his political party to assassinate suspected leftists. Victims included trade unionists and other civil society leaders.

The one-page document, written in late 1987, said that the party, APRA, and top government officials were running a secret paramilitary organisation. It said they were responsible for the attempted bombing of the El Diario newspaper, linked to the violent Maoist guerrilla group Sendero Luminoso, sent people to train in North Korea and may have been involved in executions. It made it clear that it believed that García was giving the orders.

For example, the report said, 'Acting on García's instructions to retaliate for the October 2 assassination of an APRA leader, COSEPAP recently botched an attempted bombing of a pro-SL newspaper.' The attempted bombing happened on Oct. 2, 1987; though the report is undated, the reference to the bombing suggests it was written in October or November 1987.

More:
http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1196

[Judi Lynn]

1. For the couple of posters who still believe the subject line must contain the article's headline

in the forums outside LBN, please take the time to simply EXAMINE the other forums, the sooner, the better. You should be able to figure it out instantly, if you can concentrate long enough...

You are free to create your own subject line everywhere BUT L.B.N. That's why they go to the trouble to point it out to you ONLY in L.B.N.

[Name removed]

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[naaman fletcher]

3. did anyone say that it must?

Or just that it should for the sake of etiquette?

[Bacchus39]

4. since etiquette is out the window, I will exercise my freedom of creativity

as I see fit.

[Zorro]

5. What Bacchus said