NEWSWEAK: Declassified 1991 Report Links Colombian President to Medellin Cartel

Prnewswire ^ | 8/1/04

[Brian Mosely]

NEWSWEEK: Declassified 1991 Report From Defense Department Links Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez to Medellin Cartel

Sunday August 1, 11:11 am ET

NEW YORK, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly declassified Defense Department intelligence report dated September 1991, that lists more than 100 people believed to be associated with Colombia's notorious Medellin drug cartel includes the name of current Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, a Washington ally, Newsweek reports in the current issue.

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The report describes Uribe as "a Colombian politician and senator dedicated to collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high government levels. Uribe was linked to a business involved in narcotics activities in the U.S. ...Uribe has worked for the Medellin cartel and is a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar Gaviria." In a two-page written statement, the office of the Colombian president denied that Uribe had links of any kind to a business in the U.S., as described in the 1991 report. (The list was obtained by the National Security Archive, an independent U.S. research group.) But the statement did not address the allegations that Uribe had worked for the Medellin cartel and was Escobar's close friend.

[steplock]

Isn't he ANOTHER of jimmy (da commie bastard nut) carter's loving buddies?