Voice recognition technology IDs Colombian drug kingpin in Brazil who had plastic surgery

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A reputed leader of Colombia's biggest drug cartel, his features radically altered by plastic surgery, was identified by Brazilian and American anti-drug agents using advanced voice recognition technology, the suspect's lawyer said Friday. Brazilian police had difficulty making a positive identification of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia while they investigated a money laundering scheme he orchestrated in hiding in Brazil, but got a break after taping him on the telephone and passing that information to agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, said the lawyer, Sergio Alambert. The recording was compared in the United States to other tapes of Abadia's voice, leading to a match that allowed Brazilian police to identify him so he could be arrested, Alambert told The Associated Press. Richard Mei, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, declined comment on the voice recognition techniques used but said the DEA assisted in various aspects of the Brazilian investigation into Ramirez Abadia. After the positive ID was made, Ramirez Abadia was arrested Tuesday in a luxurious home on the outskirts of Sao Paulo with a gym, sauna, plasma TVs, a swimming pool and nearly US$1 million (¤720,000) in stashed cash. Authorities found another US$1 million buried in the garden of another home near Sao Paulo on Thursday, the lawyer said.

American officials say they will soon file papers to extradite Ramirez Abadia to face racketeering charges, and Colombian authorities have hinted they may also seek custody of the alleged drug lord. But Ramirez Abadia told Alambert he fears he would be killed in Colombia, and wants to serve his time in the United States.

“ This Discrimination & Illegal Profiling, Illegal Harassment against Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia' Civil Rights by these Radical, Pro-Gun, Anti-Undocumented Workers Bigots , (probably under Dick Cheney's Secret Directives!) should be IMMEDIATELY Halted & All Charges Dropped as this action has been a Gross attack against his Constitutionally Guaranteed Right Of PRIVACY!

Any Information Illegally gathered by BUSH's (And That Criminal Cheney!) ILLEGAL SPYING & Wire Tapping Program of AMERICAN CITIZENS Without the Legal Court Applied & Approved Permission (in Triplicate ) should be Immediate thrown out as it is an affront against Mr. Abadia's Civil Rights!

See: " Bush Stomps on U.S. Citizens Rights; Tyrant Above Law “ or --- “ACLU Asks Federal Court to Block Illegal Spying Program, Citing “Concrete Harm” to Americans”

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/24435prs20060309.html -

This Sad Injustice should be Corrected Immediately! As was the case of the Illegal Arrest of Jose Lachira Carranza who-although later may have gotten into some small legal entanglements ,

See: “ Gaps in legal system kept suspect in three killings on the streets “ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879787/posts

THIS ABOVE is what the American Criminal’s Unity Association will be saying as soon as they team-up with their Supporters: the Media and other Socialist Organizations .

Because Police officers and Law Enforcement Personnel & agencies in the past are SCARED!!

They have been so Harassed and Intimidated in the past already! And have had their OWN Lives, Families and THEIR own Jobs Threatened by the Socialist, Politically Correct, Liberal JUDGES & Court Systems!

And have been attacked by American CITIZEN “ Constitutional Rights” Orgs like the A.C.L.U. ( the American Criminal Legal Union ) and S.C.U.M. (Socially Conscious Un-American Media) groups along with other POLITICALLY CORRECT, TAX-PAYER Funded Groups.

And then I am sure that Al “Hedgehog” Sharpton, La-Raza Type groups and Other Bottom-Feeding,Soulless, Greedy, Unscrupulous LAWYERS Will be Tripping over each other to come to this Drug Pusher & Murderers defense!

(Maybe John Edwards can take some time out from his busy campaigning schedule to help defend him!…for a small “Campaign Donation” fee that is!

Evil Never Sleeps!-They just hold Publicity seeking “Sleep-Overs” in the Senate Chambers!

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