He's killed Friday..........a full Venezuelan government assessment available on Friday.......hmmmmmmmmm, sounds like the investigation was completed prior to the killing.
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press Writer
Fri Nov 19,12:53 PM ET
CARACAS, Venezuela -
"A prosecutor pressing charges against backers of Venezuela's failed 2002 coup was killed by explosions that ripped through his SUV as he was driving through the capital, officials said Friday.
Witnesses said two explosions rocked Danilo Anderson's vehicle just before midnight Thursday as it drove through the western Caracas neighborhood of Chaguaramos. Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and other top officials rushed to the scene.
Anderson was preparing a case on charges of civil rebellion against hundreds of Venezuelans who signed a document supporting Pedro Carmona when he was named interim leader during the coup that ousted President Hugo Chavez for two days. Chavez was returned to power amid a popular uprising denouncing the coup and a split among the South American armed forces over whether it should have been carried out.
City security official Alberto Carias identified the badly charred body as Anderson after visiting the morgue.
Carias called the prosecutor a "hero" and said his attack was "a provocation," urging supporters of Chavez not to respond with violence. "Violence doesn't solve anything."
Attorney General Isiais Rodriguez called the attack "a terrorist act."
Chavez canceled a visit to the weekend Ibero-American Summit in San Jose, Costa Rica, due to the attack, Justice Minister Jesse Chacon told the state news agency Venpress..." (End excerpt. Link follows)