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December 30, 2004
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Dear Colleague,

In September of 2002, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced, with
great fanfare, the indictment and extradition order against Colombian
paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso of the United Self Defense Forces of
Colombia (AUC, in its Spanish initials), on the State Department's list of
international terrorist organizations:

"Salvatore Mancuso caused the brutal murder of another Colombian drug
trafficker as retribution for failing to pay a drug debt," charged Ashcroft.
"Today, we see more clearly than ever the interdependence between the
terrorists that threaten American lives and the illegal drugs that threaten
American potential. As today's indictment reminds us, the lawlessness that
breeds terrorism is also a fertile ground for the drug trafficking that
supports terrorism. To surrender to either of these threats is to surrender
to both.

Earlier this month Mancuso - who, after the mysterious disappearance of
paramilitary leader Carlos Castaqo earlier this year, became the boss of
this narco-terrorist organization - turned himself in to Colombian
authorities, as Stewart Tuttle, head of the Political Affairs division of
the U.S. Embassy in Bogota looked on.

Sean Donahue reports:

"Tuttle and his superiors were strangely silent a week later when the
government of President Alvaro Uribe announced that it would not extradite
Mancuso to the U.S. to face cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges
as long as the death squad leader agreed to 'cease all illegal activities'
and encourage other paramilitaries to take part in the governments
demobilization process. While the U.S. hasnt formally dropped its
extradition request, neither the U.S. Embassy nor the U.S. State Department
has issued a public statement about Uribes decision to delay or cancel
Mancusos handover to U.S. authorities which is highly unusual to say the
least, given that Mancuso is the head of a terrorist organization and is
accused of conspiring to smuggle over seventeen tons of cocaine to the U.S.
and Europe..."

Read more at:

http://www.narconews.com/

Once again, the "war on drugs" is enforced selectively. Even when an accused
international terrorist is involved in cocaine trafficking, U.S. officials
(and their favorite Latin American president Alvaro Uribe of Colombia) let
the big fish slip through the net while devoting billions of dollars and
hundreds of thousands of prison cells to punishing the poor, the voiceless,
the little fish...

>From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
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