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| 15 dead in Colombia booby trap... |
| 2003-02-14 |
| A squad of policemen, acting on a tip about a rebel assassination plot against President Alvaro Uribe, raided a house in this southern Colombian city before dawn Friday. In one thunderous explosion, the house and the policemen were no more. Three other houses in the working-class neighborhood adjoining the airport also were destroyed in the blast that killed 15 people, including eight policemen, an investigator with the attorney general's office and three children. The blast gouged a 15-foot-deep crater in the ground and turned a quiet neighborhood into one of destruction and desolation. Security officials said rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia planned to kill Uribe as he flew in to Neiva on Saturday. They were to do it either by detonating the huge bomb as his plane flew low overhead - the house was located on the flight path of approaching planes - or by firing mortar rounds at him from launching tubes that were believed to be at the house. Sounds like a set-up to kill the cops. Sounds like Colombian thugs' IRA training is paying off... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |