[A-List] Colombia Didnât Bomb Ecuador After All

[Leighm <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tipped by BoRev: 
http://www.borev.net/2008/03/holy_crap_colombia_maybe_didnt.html

IPS News interviewed âA high-level Ecuadorian military officer,â who 
says that we did it:

   The military officer said the bombing raid in Ecuadorian air space 
was actually led by "U.S. pilots, possibly from DynCorp," a U.S.-based 
private military contractor that has contracts under Plan Colombia.

(That HAD been my first thought regarding the air operation. //leighm)

Excerpt:

"On Mar. 13, Ecuadorean Foreign Minister MarÃa Isabel Salvador said she 
had had "a conversation with (U.S.) Ambassador Linda Jewell who ensured 
us that the planes (at the base) were not involved in any way" in the 
bombing of the FARC camp.

But the military source said that "the technology used, first to locate 
the target, in other words the camp, and later to attack it, was from 
the United States."

Sandoval declared that "equipment that the Latin American armed forces 
do not have" was used in the Mar. 1 bombing.

"They dropped around five 'smart bombs'," the kind used by the United 
States in the First Gulf War (1991), "with impressive precision and a 
margin of error of just one meter, at night, from planes traveling at 
high speeds," said the minister.

The military source said that "an attack with smart bombs requires 
pilots who have experience in such operations, which means U.S. pilots.

That's why I think they did the job and later told the Colombians 'now 
go in and find the bodies,' which is when Colombian helicopters and 
troops showed up" at the site of the raid."

In full @ Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/audits/80499/?page=entire