The Colombian capital was tense, with downtown streets deserted and police on high alert, after a bomb hidden on a bicycle blew up, killing five and injuring 21 in Bogota. Another booby-trapped bicycle and a bomb hidden in a supermarket cart were discovered and defused by police before they exploded. The explosion occurred in a restaurant popular with police officers. No one had claimed responsibility for the blast Saturday but security forces attributed them to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Intelligence sources also blamed the FARC for destroying electricity towers near Bogota over the last week, and blowing up a valve on a dam that holds water for the capital last Sunday. "These are not revolutionary acts, they are against civilians. They are terrorist acts. And, I repeat, acts which the international community and Colombians reject," President Andres Pastrana fumed.
Political, religious or a combination of the two, terrorists are terrorists. |