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| Police defuse massive bomb targeting Colombian vice president |
| 2003-02-19 |
| Police in northeastern Cucuta city said they disarmed a huge explosive device inside a bus that was set to go off on Wednesday, when visiting Vice President Francisco Santos’ motorcade drove by. Police said the 40-kilogram bomb found on Tuesday was planted by the leftist National Liberation Army, adding that two presumed members of the guerrilla group in charge of triggering the bomb were under arrest. Despite the foiled assassination attempt, police said Santos was not canceling his official visit to Cucuta, some 600 kilometers northeast of Bogota. With an estimated 4,500 fighters, the ELN is Colombia’s second-largest leftist rebel group behind the 17,500-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Fatih! And where would the world be without the Irish? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |