| "Nope. Nope. Can't happen here." |
Nicaraguan police on Tuesday ruled out the presence of Al Qaeda in this Central American country. Police spokesman Marlon Montano told a press conference that there is no specific information that Al Qaeda has a presence in Nicaragua.
| "Not specific information, anyway..." |
Nevertheless, he said police have taken pertinent measures to prevent actions by any terrorist organization in Nicaragua, and the police intelligence office keeps contacts with its counterparts in the region in order to coordinate preventive actions. "We have heard of threats to the region by Al Qaeda, but we don't have official information about the existence of a terrorist presence in the region; nonetheless, we are working to collect more information," said Montano. He said that though there is no information about terrorist presence in Nicaragua or Central America, the police authorities do not rule out the possibility of international terrorism acting in the region or in Nicaragua. "We are convinced that international terrorism could pretend acting in the region, as they have done before in other regions. So it is our obligation to work to neutralize and prevent any actions in this sense," said Montano.
| "Or, at least we'll pretend we will, so as to confuse the international terrroists who may be pretending to act here. We draw our example from the fine pretend work done by the Spanish!" |
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