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Shining Path kills 13 Peruvian soldiers
telegraph.co.uk ^ | April 12, 2009 | Jeremy McDermott

Posted on 04/12/2009 2:33:00 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Peru's Shining Path have rebels killed 13 soldiers in two separate ambushes in the south-east of the country.

The defence minister, Antero Flores Araoz, said the rebels attacked a military patrol with grenades and dynamite killing a captain and 11 soldiers in one of the most deadliest attacks by the guerrillas in the past decade.

Both attacks took place in the Ayacucho region, 340 miles from the capital, Lima.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: deathtoll; leftists; peru; shiningpath; southamerica; terrorism; terrorists
"The attack with dynamite and grenades took place Thursday, and victims included a captain, a junior officer and 11 soldiers," Flores Araoz told a press conference, adding that the remote jungle area and communications problems accounted for the delay in announcing the attack.

The assault, one of the deadliest by the once-formidable Maoist guerrilla group in the past decade, also left one person missing and two more wounded.

"Most of the soldiers plunged over a cliff," the minister said, but the circumstances of the deaths and the fall off the mountainside were not immediately clear.

The ambush came only hours after one soldier was killed and four were wounded in another Shining Path attack on a military patrol in the same area of Ayacucho department, 550 kilometers (341 miles) southeast of the capital Lima. - AFP

1 posted on 04/12/2009 2:33:01 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The Left in Peru prosecuted Alberto Fujimori now their fellow travelors are killing soldiers again, it’s pathetically predictable.


2 posted on 04/12/2009 2:52:33 PM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the jungle! I wonder at the coincidence of the timing... wasn’t Fujimori just sentence for human rights violations in his fight against the SP?


3 posted on 04/12/2009 2:53:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Every country in Central and South America needs a Pinochet.

Mexico could use one, too.

By the next election, the US will need one.


4 posted on 04/12/2009 2:57:14 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"Most of the soldiers plunged over a cliff," the minister said, but the circumstances of the deaths and the fall off the mountainside were not immediately clear.

If you've ever seen Peruvian roads you can fully understand how they could plunge over a cliff without an attack.

5 posted on 04/12/2009 3:00:40 PM PDT by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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To: ChicagahAl
The US may very well need a Pinochet before the next election.
6 posted on 04/12/2009 3:32:41 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

They need to bring back Fujimori!


7 posted on 04/12/2009 3:39:54 PM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: Aaron0617
Lori Berenson is still locked up right?
8 posted on 04/12/2009 4:18:40 PM PDT by Aaron0617
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To: Tailgunner Joe

RIP.


9 posted on 04/12/2009 5:57:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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