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Colombia: FARC planner and financier of ‘Club El Nogal’ bombing killed by police

The man behind one of Colombia’s worst terrorist attacks on a civilian business was shot and killed by police on Sunday in the southern jungle province of Caquetá.

According to Reuters reports, Herman Triana, known as “James Patamala,” was wanted for planning and financing the bombing of “Club El Nogal” in Bogota, the only attack of its kind directed straight at the capital city's business elite.

Triana was a member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC—a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group that has been fighting an insurgency against the Colombian government for 45 years.

The attack involved the use of a vehicle loaded with 200 kilograms of explosives. It was driven into the parking garage below the club and later remotely detonated, resulting in 36 deaths and at least 200 injured. The club had about 600 patrons in it at the time.

Although the FARC did not publicly claim responsibility for the attack, Colombian authorities said they had enough evidence to implicate the group.

The FARC has suffered a series of organizational setbacks in the last two years. It has lost three members of its seven-member Secretariat to murder, death by natural causes, and police action. It is also experiencing an unprecedented desertion rate.

However, FARC activity against the Colombian government, military and civilian populace has not ceased. According to their “Plan Rebirth,” they intend to avoid direct confrontations with the Colombian military, and focus more on stand-off attacks.

http://www.examiner.com/x-17196-South-America-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10...

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Sunday that police had killed Hermes Triana, one of the top leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest rebel group in the country.

National Police launched an operation in Puerto Rico, a rural town in the southwestern province of Caqueta, where Triana, known as Pata Mala (Bad Paw), had been hiding, Uribe said.

Triana was the leader of the FARC's Teofilo Forero (TF) mobile column that carried out the 2003 El Nogal Club bombing in northern Bogota, one of the worst attacks in the city that killed 36 and injured 200.

The FARC guerrillas managed to park a car containing 200 kg of explosives in the club's garage and detonated the car bomb. There were approximately 600 people in the building at the time of the explosion.

The TF headquartered in Caqueta then killed councilors in the town of Rivera and a local deputy Jaime Lozada in 2005.

Director of the Colombian police, General Oscar Naranjo said an informant facilitated the raid on Triana. Two members of the police troops were injured in the operation.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6793939.html

By tasco66 on Oct 31, 2009, 05:40 in Politics & the war.

tasco66 says on Oct 31, 2009, 05:41:

Can't wait for the lefties to come out and defend the dead terrorist.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

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suizo says on Oct 31, 2009, 08:07:

congrats

Crackheads suck!

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RobMiami says on Oct 31, 2009, 09:01:

when KFC stops you is it extra crispy?

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jimbo67856 says on Oct 31, 2009, 09:16:

Sounds like a bolder version of "guerrilla marketing."

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ---- Thomas Jefferson

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Sam Salmon says on Oct 31, 2009, 11:09:

Dead is Good-Kill Them All!

' a la orden!'

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romy says on Oct 31, 2009, 11:19:

"Can't wait for the lefties to come out and defend the dead terrorist"

I don't know about the so called 'lefties' but I have a hard time defending anyone that has killed anyone...

a few notes though:
1. I wonder how they came up with "jungle province of Caqueta"? this author demonstrates her condescending view of Colombia very well.
2. Logically speaking, why would a terrorist group not claim responsibility for one of their strikes? anyone have any insights?

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tannedincali (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 31, 2009, 17:08:

that's great news

Take the red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes

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tannedincali (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 31, 2009, 17:14:

"2. Logically speaking, why would a terrorist group not claim responsibility for one of their strikes? anyone have any insights?"

Don't be naive, why you think criminals always deny their crimes??

Take the red pill and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes

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romy says on Nov 1, 2009, 08:16:

a terrorist is different than common delinquency...

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johnny2009 says on Nov 1, 2009, 11:07:

I am not sure this is good news at all. Would have been far better to have given him a trial and sentenced him, then killed him. that would have been far more civilised. And put to bed for good the El Nogal mystery.

As it stands, this is just adds to the convenience of Club El Nogal and the way it changed the nature of Colombian terrorism, or supposed terrorism. So far as I can tell, any evidence at Club Nogal is flimsy, and as romy quite righly points out, Colombia seems to be the only country in the world where terrorists go to the effort of plotting attacks then fail to claim them for their cause.

Unless someone is able to set me straight, I still cannot see how denying Club El Nogal has advantages for las FARC, it certainly does have advantages though for the government as it now means that any firecracker in a litter bin can be blamed on Las FARC on the basis of El Nogal's denial.

The government seem to have gone to great lengths to brush this under the carpet, the mysterious files on Reyes' laptop saying what a jolly good wheeze El Nogal was, and now the police have conveniently killed the only "suspect"

Isn't that all nice and handy?

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billyb says on Nov 1, 2009, 14:38:

They deny it because they realized they went too far. Colombia, unlike the Islamic extremists, don't have a culture of death (violent as it may be), a culture were people that blow themselves and dozens of innocents up in a bus are lionized and posters of their 'heroic' deeds are posted for all to admire. The FARC, in their delusion caused by their isolation in the jungles and the mountains, thought something like El Nogal would work the same in Colombia as it would in Gaza, quickly found out how wrong they were, so when the people were, and rightfully so, outraged they resorted to what they do best, and that is to lie and deny.

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

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manINred says on Nov 1, 2009, 15:02:

Islamist terrorist groups have a completely different set of ideologies from Colombian guerrilla groups.

The Islamist groups also enjoy more widespread support than the FARC or ELN. Look at Hizbullah, they are now Lebanon's second leading party! The good thing is, at least in legitimizing, they are forced to be less extremist.

Would the same thing happen with the FARC? Doubtful.

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romy says on Nov 1, 2009, 15:23:

billyb, so the FARC being infiltrated in the government, the judicial branch, Polo democratico and Piedad Cordoba amongst others mentioned is a bunch of bullshit since they are "in their delusion caused by their isolation in the jungles and the mountains"? Funny how these stories can be made up.
If the purpose of a farc strike is to terrorize then they may be called terrorists and they would have no problem in recognizing El Nogal as theirs, otherwise their intentions are different.

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makopp5 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 1, 2009, 15:36:

romy
the farc never saiys that they have done something. Just look when they killed the kidnapped diputados de Cali, first they said that there was a unknow group, which killed them and finally they recognized internally that they killed them, FARC are TERRORISTS. They terrorise the poblation with their acts.
http://semana.com/noticias-nacion/historia-espias/130770.aspx
Here some usfull informationa about terrorists and chavez

¿Qué tiene que ver la masacre de estos humildes vendedores de maní con todo este delicado escenario geopolítico y militar? Una de las dos hipótesis más fuertes que hay sobre la masacre es que la habrían cometido el ELN, que se mueve como pez en el agua en Táchira, según el gobernador César Pérez Vivas, con la tolerancia de las Fuerzas Armadas. La otra es que habrían sido las Fuerzas Bolivarianas de Liberación, una guerrilla prochavista que se mueve en la frontera con el supuesto objetivo de contener la entrada de paramilitares. Pero en cualquier caso, diversas fuentes consultadas por SEMANA en la zona fronteriza y en Caracas coinciden en que ni el secuestro ni la matanza se pudieron haber hecho sin complacencia de las Fuerzas Armadas venezolanas. La operación ocurrió a dos kilómetros del aeropuerto militar de Santo Domingo, en un área donde hay por lo menos dos bases fijas de la Guardia Nacional.

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billyb says on Nov 1, 2009, 16:30:

What is your point romy?

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

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makopp5 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 1, 2009, 17:28:

billy
he wants to say that farc are not terrorists and that they do not done teh attack on El nogal. For this reasons I suspect, that he is a terrorist supporter and he is going to Cali and its surroundings where is the strongest farc-presence,

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romy says on Nov 1, 2009, 21:34:

that it's too easy to make up stories when you control the media.

makopp you are losing your usefulness and becoming merely an idiot...

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Dolfi says on Nov 2, 2009, 01:16:

"Una de las dos hipótesis más fuertes que hay sobre la masacre es que...."

Still no hard facts about this incident.

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 2, 2009, 14:22:

They have attributed just about every farc terrorist attack in the last ten years to this guy, from Gaviria's sister to the El Nogal bombing and everything in between. I don't doubt the farc was involved in most, if not all of those attacks, but I find it hard to believe that this guy was behind them all

I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

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jb_fastpitch says on Nov 2, 2009, 18:14:

Is there any doubt that this guy was a Marxist?

Choose Liberty, there is no such thing as equality.

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viajero123 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 2, 2009, 18:33:

Yes, jb_fastpitch, many of the things Farc and Farc militants do have nothing to do with Marxism.

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Dolfi says on Nov 4, 2009, 00:45:

jb_fastpitch, is there any doubt that you ara a reactionary?

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jb_fastpitch says on Nov 4, 2009, 12:40:

Correct, I react negatively to ideologies that suppress liberty.

Choose Liberty, there is no such thing as equality.

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gatogris says on Nov 4, 2009, 13:01:

The evidence implicating the TF was humintel from a jailhouse snitch type (a guy looking for a deal) and a trace on one of the two detonators used. Not the most ironclad stuff, but also not without some basis.

Wouldn't hold up in court, but good enough to leak to the media, especially when it serves your interests.

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romy says on Nov 4, 2009, 13:06:

yet when jailbirds implicate Uribe and co. it's just a criminal looking for spotlight. funny the double standard

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makopp5 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 4, 2009, 13:28:

romy
where is there a double standard?

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Nov 5, 2009, 13:33:

I have to agree with Romy on this one. Whenever a jailhouse snitch points at Uribe or his cronies, they do everything they can to discredit him. When the stoolie implicates a political enemy(farc or otherwise), the government is quick to back up the accusation.

Regardless, I'm sure this farc piece of shit was guilty of plenty. It's a good thing they killed him. If they'd have arrested him, he'd be out of jail in two months. Hell, they might have made him a peace ambassador like old one eye(Karina).

I'm so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

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billyb says on Nov 5, 2009, 13:52:

"I have to agree with Romy on this one. Whenever a jailhouse snitch points at Uribe or his cronies, they do everything they can to discredit him. When the stoolie implicates a political enemy(farc or otherwise), the government is quick to back up the accusation."

That is true, but everybody does that. Uribe's enemies do the same. When someone attacks him, they don't need any proof to take it as gospel, but let it be something bad (is there any other?) about the FARC or Chavez, then they demand irrefutable proof (like that can be easily obtained in the jungles and mountains) to even consider that it could 'possibly" be true (romy comes to mind here). As far as the individual is concerned, he may not be guilty of ALL the things he is accused of, but if he is guilty of just a single thing, then I have no problem with him being plugged>

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

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romy says on Nov 6, 2009, 08:05:

"but if he is guilty of just a single thing, then I have no problem with him being plugged"
same with Uribe?

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billyb says on Nov 6, 2009, 22:20:

I'm with you romy, but can you refresh me on what he is guilty of, just give me something you would be comfortable of accusing Gaviria with, and I am in your camp.

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

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