(With thanks to RickB at Ten Percent for his multi-MOA linked post on the same subject.)
The Colombia/terrorist state story has taken yet another disturbing twist. It has emerged that Mario Uribe Escobar, President Uribe's cousin, has been arrested due to alleged links to right-wing paramilitaries. From the BBC:
A cousin and key ally of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been arrested over alleged ties to paramilitary groups.
Mario Uribe Escobar, who stepped down as a senator last October, denies accusations of criminal conspiracy.
He went to the Costa Rican embassy in Bogota seeking asylum, but his request was turned down.
As he left the embassy, he was taken into custody and driven away in a police jeep.
Mario Uribe is one of the most prominent figures arrested over alleged paramilitary links.
A jailed former paramilitary leader, Salvatore Mancuso, has alleged that he met Mario Uribe several times and was asked by him to support his senate campaign in 2002.
This is merely the latest revelation in a long series of revelations regarding the Colombian government's links to terror (far more than any so-called terrorist state proclaimed by Bu$h). A Colombian government that the UK and the US continue to fund and arm, despite continuous human rights abuses (watch this slideshow for more). It is time for the West to cease arming this nation that is clearly a failed state in the hands of a group of terrorists who have no qualms about murdering thousands of citizens to protect their position in power. It is time that a true terrorist state was confronted for it's crimes against humanity. With the US in it's corner, what are the chances of that?
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