[Marxism] Evidence that the CIA Planned to Shoot Down Chavez Plane

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: vscampaign@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=11121

Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the
CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to
United Nations in New York

Details behind the sudden decision to cancel President Hugo
Chavez Frias' next-week trip to Washington D.C. and New York
(to deliver a speech to the United Nations) are being revealed by
security services who say they have "overwhelming evidence" of
a CIA-backed plan to "bring down" the Chavez Frias' airplane
during the scheduled flight to the United States from Caracas.
Sources in Venezuela's Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM)
have told VHeadline.com that "presented with overwhelming
evidence of Washington's planned attack on the Presidential
flight, it was decided that the President's personal security was
preeminent and that he should not go!"

State Security & Political (DISIP) police agents were involved in a
gun battle in Plaza Altamira Friday night as they moved to detain
a suspect now named as Jorge Rojas Riera, for the Friday
morning bombing at the Casa Militar barracks, across Avenida
Urdaneta from the Miraflores Presidential Palace.  It is reported
that President Hugo Chavez Frias was working at his desk when
the 1:00 a.m. blast went off but that his life had never been put in
danger as many gleeful wire-service reporters had immediately
cabled to their North American publishers.

Reports say that some 60 DISIP and National Guard (GN)
officers were able to take the suspect into custody but only after a
skirmish with opposition-controlled Chacao municipal police
officers and gunmen identified as former army officers who had
been dismissed the service after they participated in the April 11,
2002, coup d'etat.  Police say Rojas Riera was detained after
officers were forced to use an electronic stun gun to capture and
'cuff him.  Little is known of the detainee other than that he has
been identified having been employed at Plaza Altamira as a
"security agent" by opposition organizers ... meanwhile he has
told interrogators that he acted independently in the Friday
morning's grenade attack.

Rebel army officer Felix Moreno was reportedly wounded in an
exchange of gunfire. Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez says part of
the blame has to be laid on DISIP agents who did not identify
themselves ... he says they arrived to Plaza Altamira just before
midnight and were heavily armed but were not in uniform.  "there
was a lot of running-around and another gun-battle close to
Torre Britanica (south of Avenida Francisco Miranda) in which a
DISIP wagon was overturned.

Strong rumors are circulating today that the man arrested had
earlier sought political asylum at the Dominican Republic
embassy in Caracas but had been asked to return later.


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Carlos Rovira - "Carlito"


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