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

[andrew c pollack <andypollack@xxxxxxxx>]

for those who don't click the link: this is from LAST YEAR. (NY Transfer
pointed out the error earlier today.) Which is not to say it won't be
tried again...
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:55:14 -0400 Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> 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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