Posted on 11/27/2004 1:35:27 PM PST by Kitten Festival
There is so much information floating around that it is really hard to make sense of it all. But I will give it a try, because there are a lot of confusion and complex facts surrounding the murder of Danilo Anderson and its aftermath. Writing them helps understand things.
The Murder:
The bomb that blew up Anderson’s car was made out of 250 grams of C-4, reportedly the smallest size in which that explosive is available. Even if C-4 is not commonly available, it is mostly used by the military; sufficient amounts of it are missing from Venezuelan military facilities that anyone could have made the bomb. The police have been contradictory about where the device was placed. The first report talked about two devices or two timers which has never been mentioned again. After that, various police spokesmen have talked variously about a bomb on the outside of the chassis of the car and a bomb underneath the driver’s seat. In either case, the bombing was carried out with “military” precision, Anderson was killed and the car burned.
People are making a big deal out of Anderson’s cell phone surviving intact, but there may be any explanations for this. I think it was weirder that a high Government official had been murdered and a bunch of other Government officials showed up without any bodyguards, standing around publicly in an area where ten minutes earlier a bomb had exploded. There could have been other devices around. Are they that stupid?
The whole style smells like a military operation, not a police operation, but sometimes police members come out of the military anyway. However, as we will see below all of the “suspects” to date have been more police related than military and are connected by their love of guns.
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Who's Anderson?
Anderson's this creepy sleazy Caracas prosecutor whose job was prosecuting and jailing Hugo Chavez's political opponents. He got blown up in a car bomb last week and now Chavez is blaming the opposition. But the preponderance of evidence suggests that Chavez did it. He's that slimey.
Looks like whoever did the deed has help from the media to diffuse the suspicion.
The CIA thing is totally bogus. It's what the chavistas claim to make themselves feel better.
But it was definitely someone with access to C4 which signals someone in the military. Maybe prochavez or maybe antichavez. I don't think the cops have that kind of explosives access. But the military does. The Colombian guerrillas also have that access, but if they wanted to send a message to Chavez, they would have killed one of his children or something like that, not this particular guy.
With the preponderance of evidence pointing to the chavista military, it's clear they've got a problem in that department. The democratic opposition has been totally crushed. The oligarchs who own the media are being destroyed. All that's left is the military and that's rapidly beginning to boil. I would love to see a military revolt take this Thug ruling Venezuela away from the levers of power.
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