FARC Commander gives up
After the devastating strikes on their leadership’s camp just over the border in Ecuador, the FARC has been going through some tough time. Intel gained from their laptops has led investigators around Latin America to caches of money, arms, and supporters.
The information captured there, which was verified by Interpol the other day, continues to pay off on the world stage. It details the FARC’s relations with Hugo Chavez, it led to the arrest of arms dealer Viktor Bout, and it even revealed the FARC’s preference for an Obama victory in the upcoming U.S. election.
Now there’s another dividend–FARC’s top surviving commander “Karina” will fight no more forever. She surrendered this week after 24 years of fighting our ally.
Sounds like a real sweetheart:
Asked about news reports of guerrilla operations she may have participated in, Karina admitted to nothing. “They accuse me of a lot of things I wasn’t part of,” she said.
But Miguel Antonio Paez told CNN en Espanol that he remembers well the woman who, with a band of guerrillas, stopped the bus he was on in 2004 in northwest Colombia, ordered him and the other passengers off and the bus be burned.
“The commander of that guerrilla group — a dark-haired woman, tall, with one eye missing — called herself Karina,” he said.
“She ordered me tied up. Here, I have the marks from the wires, and there, while I was tied up, she lopped off my penis and testicles and I remained castrated for all my life.”
The war will continue, but this is a major victory in Colombia’s decades-long counterinsurgency.
It’s also a victory for Plan Colombia, which both U.S. Senate liberals and the FARC have long opposed.
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Looks like Hugos’ cache of friends is diminishing. Can’t be a bad thing!
Owww that messed up about that karina did to that guy. Hope she get her.
Little heads up on the AM posts that involve weiner mistreatment is much appreciated.
nearly choked on my coffee.
Are liberals always on the wrong side of the issues? Rhetorical.
Good on them.
Now he’ll be available to serve on Obama’s cabinet.
Let me guess both Hugo and Obama are now claiming that the files, verified by Interpol, are all part of a vast right wing conspiracy that is meant to make the loveable Hugo and the master of change Obama look bad in the public eye.
Thanks for keeping this out front see-dubya.
That woman is pure evil which can only mean the
ACLU is sending a team of lawyers to her rescue.So, are Sean Penn, and Danny Glover, flying in to give her a big hug, and condolences from their buddy, and her benefactor, Hugo?
Can’t wait for her ugly mug to be plastered on t-shirts and sold to the useful idiots on the left for wear at their innumerable protests.
She just wants to rejoin society? Is that how it works now? Conduct warfare for 20+ years, than just say “olly olly oxen free”?
Surely not.
Bernadine Dohrn unavailable for comment.
Radio Relay, I was thinking the same thing. How long before her mug is on flags and banners at the May Day or anti-war “celebrations”.
Chalk up one for the good guys.
Hope she gets everything that’s coming to her.
Mrs. Obama, could ‘Karina’ be hitting on your husband???
I can only hope more information will be made public. The desire of the world’s most savage terrorist organizations to have the “empty suit” as our next President is very chilling. Almost as chilling as the treatment of innocent civilians at the hands of this “Karina” may she be dealt an appropriate level of justice for her crimes against the citizens of Columbia.
These successes at outing and defeating FARC, Chavez, and all their associates will inflame the Democrats. They will obstinately refuse to give any form of assistance or aid to Colombia until it becomes Communist.
Joemantler #9 — That was my exact thought! So she just wants to take her toys and “go home” now. Puh-leeze! Chalk one up for the good guys.
I don’t know about you guys, but I would give Miguel Antonio Paez a half hour with her in a soundproof room.
Maybe a few dental tools as well…
Theres a very slim chance that any of this information is going to sway Pelosi. Once a devout Leftist, always a devout Leftist. If Hugo proclaims that all information on the laptop is lies, she will believe him. Birds of a feather ! This latest arrest won’t change her mind.
Miguel Antonio Paez is now running a futile campaign in the democratic primaries as Hillary Clinton. Ouch!
#6 Truesoldier. Answer> Hugo will still smell like cherry blossoms and Bush is STILL Hitler. The Lefthanded beat goes on.
Bring on the man-hattin’, feminist code-pinks in 5…4…3…
If only Karina would lop off Nancy Pelosi’s testicles and penis.
Sean Penn could not be reached for comment.
Obama will rush down there to meet with her – advise her on how to become a college professor in Chicago.
Is she holding a fund raiser for Jesus Obama?
Not to worry, as gandolphxx points out, there are innumerable opportunites in higher education for terrorists.
Unless this poor guy, Miguel Antonio Paez, lists “labor leader” as an occupation, I don’t think the American Left is gonna have much use for him.
I hope this news about the FARC being weakened brings about the release of the American DoD contractors taken prisoner in Feb. 2003.
Few people even remember that the FARC has American held captive.
I pray they are home soon.
I’m glad they nabbed the FARCin’ Commander. She’s real hot btw.
I think NOW will hire her. She’s already proven she can do their kind of work, re: Mr Miguel Antonio Paez.
I was in Bogota over the weekend and the people there are feeling even safer and even more confident in their war against the narco-thugs. The transformation of the security situation in Colombia under Uribe has been nothing more than spectacular.
This is how you win a war on terror… dedication, determination and execution.
How long before Buraq Obama pronounces her “a respected figure in Colombian politics”?
When Uribe retires can we hire him to run Homeland Security? He can start with the ACLU and Code Stink.
With Obama as President, she would receive a white house reception for the purpose of “talks”, of course. I suspect that Chavez will come out and state that “this shows the U.S. is about to invade us any day now.” I’m glad to see some good news today.
When I lived in Colombia, a band of FARC G’s blockaded an army truck on the outskirts of Villavicencio. The truck was transporting raw recruits who were unarmed. The FARC, led by a woman stood at the back of the truck and fired automatic weapons into the mass of men and slaughtered them all. I am so ashamed of our gutless congress who essentially are doing the same thing figuratively speaking to the American and Colombian people.
It will be interesting to see the information on the computers. I would like to know who they are donating to. It would be interesting to see if some Democrats names come up.
But Obama’s ‘gringos’ were happy to pass on to FARC the good news that Obama would be voting against the Colombia free trade pact and would gladly cut off US military aid to help the FARClings. When is he going to come clean on this and admit what he has done?
There were 8000 email addresses in that FARC computer. I would really like to see them and find out how many Democrats in among them – Jim McGovern, Bill Delahunt, Joe Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, George Miller – the whole Chavista nesting ground in US Congress. I really hope it has the bribe amounts if any were paid, too. It’s good that FARC kept good records.
Or, it would be nice to see President Uribe save all this news up for a late October surprise this year to give Obama and his FARC-klatsching pals something to think about.
All that sucking up to FARC and they all thought they could get away with it.
What happened to Miguel Antonio Paez is probably listed as item 244 or 247 on President Uribe’s Web site here.
Some lovely photographs of the FARC doing what the FARC does best – it’s on President Uribe’s site.
Wow…. Velveeta I am impressed you actual can contribute value to a discussion!
Thanks BTW for the PDF link forwarded it to many who need to see the real side of the FARC.