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Goss Plan to Strengthen CIA Is Ready
By Walter PincusWashington
Post Staff WriterWednesday, February 16, 2005; Page A02
CIA Director Porter J. Goss plans to deliver to President Bush today his plans for increasing by 50 percent the number of clandestine operations officers and analysts to expand U.S. intelligence on terrorist networks and to counter the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, according to senior intelligence officials. [read more]
E-mails indicate link between FARC leader, Cubas' kidnappers
BY TYLER BRIDGES Posted Feb. 21, 2005
Knight Ridder Newspapers
The coded e-mails are part of strong evidence that a top Colombian FARC rebel who lived in Venezuela advised the leftists here who kidnapped the daughter of former President Raul Cubas, officials of Paraguay, Colombia and the United States told The Miami Herald.
The link has prompted strong concerns because it is the first known case of the FARC exporting to other parts of Latin America its vast expertise in kidnapping for ransom - a crime that it has turned into a virtual industry in Colombia to fill its war coffers. [read more]
Russia dismisses US concerns over arms sales to Venezuela
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has shrugged off Washington's warnings against Russian arms sales to Venezuela, saying the deal was a bilateral issue in line with international law.
The US State Department said last Thursday it is "extremely troubled" by Russian arms deliveries to Venezuela that reportedly include 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and aircraft, signalling concern that some of the weapons might be turned over to leftist rebels in neighbouring Colombia [read more]
By Walter PincusWashington
Post Staff WriterWednesday, February 16, 2005; Page A02
CIA Director Porter J. Goss plans to deliver to President Bush today his plans for increasing by 50 percent the number of clandestine operations officers and analysts to expand U.S. intelligence on terrorist networks and to counter the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, according to senior intelligence officials. [read more]
E-mails indicate link between FARC leader, Cubas' kidnappers
BY TYLER BRIDGES Posted Feb. 21, 2005
Knight Ridder Newspapers
The coded e-mails are part of strong evidence that a top Colombian FARC rebel who lived in Venezuela advised the leftists here who kidnapped the daughter of former President Raul Cubas, officials of Paraguay, Colombia and the United States told The Miami Herald.
The link has prompted strong concerns because it is the first known case of the FARC exporting to other parts of Latin America its vast expertise in kidnapping for ransom - a crime that it has turned into a virtual industry in Colombia to fill its war coffers. [read more]
Russia dismisses US concerns over arms sales to Venezuela
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has shrugged off Washington's warnings against Russian arms sales to Venezuela, saying the deal was a bilateral issue in line with international law.
The US State Department said last Thursday it is "extremely troubled" by Russian arms deliveries to Venezuela that reportedly include 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and aircraft, signalling concern that some of the weapons might be turned over to leftist rebels in neighbouring Colombia [read more]
posted by Rosemary Welch @ 2/21/2005 05:05:00 AM
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