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Newshawk: Beth
Pubdate: Sun, 18 Jun 2006
Source: Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, NJ)
Copyright: 2006 Associated Press
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Website: http://www.thnt.com/hnt/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/825
Author: The Associated Press
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)
COLOMBIANS' FAITH SHAKEN BY SOLDIERS KILLING DRUG POLICE
JAMUNDI, Colombia -- On a dirt road dotted with country homes near
the western city of Cali, three trucks carrying an elite squad of
anti-narcotics police pulled up to the gates of a psychiatric center
for a planned raid about an hour before dusk.
Within minutes, all 10 officers in the U.S.-trained unit were dead in
a ferocious attack that stunned Colombians and severely embarrassed
President Alvaro Uribe just as he was savoring a crushing re-election victory.
That's because the alleged killers were no typical outlaws. The
gunmen firing from roadside ditches and from behind bushes were a
platoon of 28 soldiers who unleashed a barrage of some 150 bullets
and seven grenades, according to a ballistics investigator.
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MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman
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