Was FARC Paid Millions For Hostages?
Rumor has it that this heroic Columbian rescue was a fraud, at least according to these stories. Apparently $20 million of your tax dollars was paid and liberals are claiming that this was some sort of “world leader” performance for John McCain since he did happen to be in the neighborhood on that very day. Hmmmmm.Since I don’t like McCain and won’t be voting for his old ass all I can say is we better not have paid money for hostages to make this mutherfucker look good on the proverbial “world stage.”
Anywho…You make the call.
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The claims by the fascist government in Columbia, the Bush regime, the “Keating Five” McCain campaign, and the corporate media that the FARC hostages were released through trickery and this all just happened to take place in time for McCain’s visit to that country were fishy from the start. Any decent bullshit detector should have been going off the charts.
It turns out the whole story was a bunch of bullshit.
FARC was paid millions of dollars to release the hostages. (The Australian 7/4/08)
LEADERS of the Colombian FARC rebel movement were paid millions of dollars to free Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages, Swiss radio has said, quoting “a reliable source”.
The 15 hostages released Wednesday by the Colombian army “were in reality ransomed for a high price, and the whole operation afterwards was a set-up,” the radio’s French-language channel said.Saying the US, which had three of its citizens among those freed, was behind the deal, it put the price of the ransom at some 20 million dollars.
The radio said its source was “close to the events, reliable and tested many times in recent years.’
The Bush regime and its corrupt cronies in Columbia staged the whole thing to help McCain’s campaign, and it sounds like they used our taxdollars to pay off FARC.
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Below is from Daily Kos
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Leaders of the Colombian FARC rebel movement were paid millions of dollars to free Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages, Swiss radio said on Friday, quoting ‘a reliable source’.
The 15 hostages released on Wednesday by the Colombian army ‘were in reality ransomed for a high price, and the whole operation afterwards was a set-up,’ the radio’s French-language channel said.
Saying the United States, which had three of its citizens among those freed, was behind the deal, it put the price of the ransom at some $20 million.
The UK’s Daily Mail also mentions this.
UPDATE: Per Davefromqueens — the London Times sez BushCo paid the ransom!
Also: Colombia Defense Minister Denies Paying Ransom
Another left leaning blog Lucky White Girl suggests that the French were the ones to pony up the ransom, as they cared more about freeing Ingrid Betancourt than the Bush Junta cared about freeing American citizens. The marked apparent improvement in Betancourt’s health since the last video may be an indication that the French had been getting food and medicine to her for months before the ‘rescue’.
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This was from Hot Air on Thursday
Sphere: Related ContentLike so many conspiracy theorists these days, he doesn’t have the balls to level the accusation squarely, preferring instead to “just ask questions.” It falls to Buchanan to flesh out the theory before rejecting it. Wade through some nutroots blogs and you’ll find breathless reportage noting that McCain did, apparently, know in advance — around 12 hours in advance, per the NYT, after he got to Colombia.
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