Buried! (Trees And Things)

port1080: Re: OVER THE LINE!

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:02:17 EST

The cover story given to the FARC captors was that a humanitarian helicopter was being provided to transport the hostages for use in a propaganda video -- and they had no trouble accepting this as a valid operation. Eh, I find it hard to get work

gerrymander: Re: OVER THE LINE!

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:19:46 EST

I didn't see much mention as posing as humanitarian workers at the meet up site, other than to act as if the helicopters were owned by some charity group, so I don't think that is an issue.

To my mind, that's more than bad enough -- but not the w

gerrymander: Re: Clarification?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:05:54 EST

"well sourced" isn't all that meaningful to me if you don't tell me your sources, sorry random Swiss radio station

This was my take, too. The reports of the operation had quite a number of Colombians and Americans at all levels of the operation n

pO157: OVER THE LINE!

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:45:55 EST

Is anybody else bothered by the fact that they supposedly posed as journalists? I didn't see much mention as posing as humanitarian workers at the meet up site, other than to act as if the helicopters were owned by some charity group, so I don't think that

port1080: Clarification?

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:07:27 EST

IF this article is true (and it's not clear to me that it is - "well sourced" isn't all that meaningful to me if you don't tell me your sources, sorry random Swiss radio station), one thing that's not made completely clear is whether the money went to FARC