Posted on 08/17/2006 5:58:10 PM PDT by HAL9000
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP)--Bolivia's former president says Washington is refusing to clarify that he had nothing to do with the secret removal of anti-aircraft missiles to U.S. soil - an incident that has him facing treason charges under Bolivia's new leftist government."They ought not to be leaving us hanging," said Eduardo Rodriguez, a former Supreme Court chief who stepped in as caretaker president last year after two Bolivian leaders were ousted by street protests.
He organized December elections won by the radical leftist Evo Morales, a remarkably strife-free process for such a polarized nation.
Twenty-eight Chinese-made shoulder-fired missiles - Bolivia's lone anti-aircraft defenses - were spirited out of the country in early October by senior Bolivian military officials and Americans led by then-U.S. military attache Col. William P. Rushing III, according to documents provided to The Associated Press by Rodriguez.
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