Posted on 03/06/2008 10:13:53 AM PST by StJacques
Telephone Call from Chavez to "Reyes" Allowed Colombians to Locate FARC Camp
Elpais.com.co-EFE
A telephone call that the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, would have made to the guerrilla leader "Raul Reyes,"1 permitted location of the encampment, according to reports from Colombian intelligence, RCN Radio divulged today.
The telephone call took place Wednesday the 27th of February, the day in which four Colombian Congressmen (Gloria Polanco, Luis Eladio Pérez, Orlando Beltrán, Jorge Eduardo Gechem), kidnapped for almost seven years, were liberated.2
"Chavez, emotionally moved by the liberation of the kidnapped prisoners, called Reyes (alias of Luis Edgar Devia) and told him that everything had gone well," RCN broadcast while citing "high Colombian military sources."
Intelligence services traced the call and detected that Reyes was in Colombian territory near the border with Ecuador, he [then] crossed it "and soon afterwards the bombing came," Friday night and early Saturday morning, when the rebel leader and some twenty other guerrillas were taken down.
According to RCN, "the same intelligence official -- who expressly requested anonymity -- said that there is no end to the irony that it has been a call of President Chavez which permitted us to take Reyes down."
Of equal importance, the source revealed that the supreme chief, founder, and leader of the FARC, Manuel Marulanda Vélez, more commonly known as Tirofijo,3 "has taken refuge in Venezuela."
The intelligence services also "have established that (Tirofijo) is ill" and "he has taken refuge on a Venezuelan farm, not near the border, [but] on the other side of the border with the (Colombian) Department of Norte de Santander."
The RCN sources also broadcast that "Chavez ordered the transfer of battalions to the border to protect Tirofijo in order to avoid doing with him in Venezuelan territory what they did with Reyes in Ecuador."
They added that "if they are mobilizing troops (in Venezuela and sending them to the border) it is for protecting Tirofijo," the source said.
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Translator's Notes:
1 "Raul Reyes" was the alias of Luis Edgar Devia, previously 2nd in command of the FARC until killed by Colombian troops at his FARC encampment in Ecuador this past Monday.
2 The FARC currently hold dozens of high-profile hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three American defense contractors, who they are using as bargaining chips to secure the release of FARC prisoners jailed in Colombia. They also hold an untold number of lower-profile hostages that may go into the hundreds.
3 "Tirofijo" is a nickname that roughly translates to "steady shot." Marulanda has been the leader of the FARC from its inception in 1964.
Well I wasn’t taking about taking Chavez. I meant the CIA grab of a pair of drug dealers in Venezuela about that time. I think we could get a good midnight raid on the camp and pick up the 70 year old FARC head and leave Chavez crying in his soup.
But I would be more than happy to see us bust a full scale move on Chavez (although I think his people may be getting ready to dump his idiotic ***).
Right, I think we're on the same page there. My point was, with Chavez muscling up to protect FARC, it might be a little crunchier this time. Might have to do it by a bright orange glare, if you know what I mean.
Hate to hurt all those nice, professional Venezuelan military people just to grab a couple of scumbags, so maybe you're right -- wait a bit and see if Chavez gradually wears out his welcome. Although it took 20 years and a world war for the Italians to get tired enough of Mussolini to turn him upside down with his girlfriend.
BTW - Even dead and upside down it was apparent what an attractive woman she must have been. I take it that they must have put most of their vehement flogging of the dead energy into jellyfying Mr. Mussolini.
This former private secretary in a black uniform recollected that Mussolini would receive eight or ten (or more) lady visitors who always said the same thing, viz., that they needed to see the Duce about an urgent matter that they couldn't discuss freely. Which meant they were drawn like moths to the flame of power, as Henry Kissinger once remarked. The secretary would excuse himself, go tell the Duce, and he would order the woman to be admitted, after which he would roger her royally -- the purpose of her visit -- and politely see her out a side door. He knocked off at least ten women a day like this -- even nuns -- proving the scientific observations about alpha males' sexual appetites to be correct for Homo sapiens sapiens hastatus rogerissimus as well.
By now at least 5% of the population of Rome is related to Alessandra Mussolini in some degree.
So the one hung on the board was just the least lucky to have been caught alone with him at the time?
I got 1.1 million. See what you get.
No doubt she was a looker. Mussolini got plenty of looks.
Must have been the uniform. And the strutting. Strutting and plumage and pulling up trees will do it for you every time, I've heard.
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