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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world-ar...8&nav_id=58599
BBC News April 18, 2009 Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" LA PAZ - Two members of a mercenary gang said to have plotted to kill Bolivian President Evo Morales were veterans of the Balkan wars of the 1990s, reports say. Three died and two were arrested in the eastern city of Santa Cruz after police fought a gun battle with the group. Bolivian police officials said two of the five fought for Croatian independence. The three others are said to be Irish, Romanian and Hungarian. They were said to be planning attacks on government and opposition figures. Chief among the suspected targets was Bolivian President Evo Morales, but Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera and Santa Cruz Governor Ruben Costas, a bitter opponent of Morales, were also targeted, police said. There has been no immediate explanation of why the alleged plotters would target government and opposition targets alike. Costas has questioned the government's information, accusing it of "mounting a show" aimed at discrediting the opposition. Revealing details of the alleged mercenary gang, police chief Victor Hugo Escobar said prosecutors were now seeking "clear and concrete information". The group, suspected by authorities of being behind a dynamite attack on the home of a Catholic cardinal earlier in the week, was tracked down on Thursday to a hotel in Santa Cruz, some 900km (620 miles) east of the capital, La Paz. The resulting shootout killed Magyarosi Arpak, a Romanian, and Irishman Michael Martin Dwyer, officials say. The police chief named Eduardo Rosa Flores, 49, a Bolivian-Hungarian man also killed in the gun battle, as the ringleader of the group. He fought in the war for Croatian independence in the 1990s where he commanded a paramilitary organization, reports said. The two men arrested were named as Mario Francisco Tasik Astorga, 58, another veteran of the Croatian war, and Elot Toazo, a Hungarian computer expert. Morales revealed the existence of the alleged plot as he travelled to Venezuela and Trinidad for regional summits. He said intelligence reports had warned of an assassination plot by a group comprising foreign attackers intending to "riddle us with bullets". Early reports from Bolivia's leftist government suggested the plotters were linked in some way to opposition movements in the country's lowlands supported by Costas. But news that Costas was himself thought to be a target brought a clarification from government officials. "The terrorist group has a strategy... not only against the president or vice-president, but other authorities as well," Deputy Interior Minister Marcos Farfan told Bolivian radio.
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Here are some intriguing, if speculative, tracks in the altiplano....
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"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...." "Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Túpac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war |
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"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...." "Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Túpac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war |
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"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...." "Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Túpac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war |
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"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...." "Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Túpac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war |
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Hmmmmm......
Click the link for photos and an easier read. Flores allegedly worked for the BBC at one stage.... http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0= Quote:
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Mmmm... Colombia is very close to Bolivia.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/...-from-Colombia Radio Netherlands May 7, 2009 Kosovan ex-PM expelled from Colombia Former Kosovan prime minister Agim Ceku has been forced to cut short a visit to Colombia because of a warrant issued for his arrest by Serbia. Mr Ceku was attending a conference in Colombia when he was expelled. The authorities were not willing to arrest him. Serbia wants to put Mr Ceku on trial for war crimes. He was the highest commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or UCK, which carried out a violent campaign against the Serbian security forces at the end of the 1990s. At the time Kosovo was a province of Serbia, but it has since declared its independence.
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Well-connected dogs of war, with substantial caches of weaponry, are turning up all over South America at the moment....
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"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...." "Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek." "They are in Love. Fuck the War." Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." The last words of the last Inka, Túpac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war |
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