FARC Terrorism

[SeanAshi]

The terrorist orginzation FARC who had 3 Americans in their custody in Colombia, what is their status? And why the hell is the government still dragging ass and doing nothing?

[Vance]

This is FARCed up.

[Sayeret]

Description
Established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, the FARC is Colombia’s oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency. The FARC is governed by a secretariat, led by septuagenarian Manuel Marulanda (a.k.a. “Tirofijo”) and six others, including senior military commander Jorge Briceno (a.k.a. “Mono Jojoy”). Organized along military lines and includes several urban fronts. In February 2002, the group’s slow-moving peace negotiation process with the Pastrana administration was terminated by Bogota following the group’s plane hijacking and kidnapping of a Colombian Senator from the aircraft. On 7 August, the FARC launched a large-scale mortar attack on the Presidential Palace where President Alvaro Uribe was being inaugurated. High-level foreign delegations—including from the United States—attending the inauguration were not injured, but 21 residents of a poor neighborhood nearby were killed by stray rounds in the attack.

Activities
Bombings, murder, mortar attacks, kidnapping, extortion, hijacking, as well as guerrilla and conventional military action against Colombian political, military, and economic targets. In March 1999, the FARC executed three US Indian rights activists on Venezuelan territory after it kidnapped them in Colombia. Foreign citizens often are targets of FARC kidnapping for ransom. Has well-documented ties to full range of narcotics trafficking activities, including taxation, cultivation, and distribution.

Strength
Approximately 9,000 to 12,000 armed combatants and several thousand more
supporters, mostly in rural areas.

Location/Area of Operation
Colombia with some activities—extortion, kidnapping, logistics, and R&R—in Venezuela, Panama, and Ecuador.

External Aid
Cuba provides some medical care and political consultation. A trial is currently underway in Bogota to determine whether three members of the Irish Republican Army—arrested in Colombia in 2001 upon exiting the FARC-controlled demilitarized zone (despeje)—provided advanced explosives training to the FARC.

Some information about FARC. I'll try to find more.

Okaey I just found a good site, go to this one.

http://cfrterrorism.org/groups/farc.html

[jizzmonkey]

tiro-fijo is dead, rumor has it "el Mono" or JOJOY runs the show now.

[Hawaii_Light]

ah, the good old FARC, way better then that PLA and all those other colombian guerrila groups :lol: .


I did a huge report on them a year ago, it was quite intreasting, to bad it was on my old laptop.

are you talking about those guys that were working as surveyors, and their plane crashed right in the middle of mass troop movement?, i remeber a video of them poped up awhile ago talking about there familys

:(

[Khabbi]

Is FARC terrorists ? , I thought they were para military or something like that ?

Still wankers though :bash:

[Vance]

Is FARC terrorists ? , I thought they were para military or something like that ?

Still wankers though :bash:
Bloody ones at that.

[Sayeret]

Is FARC terrorists ? , I thought they were para military or something like that ?

They might be called a paramilitary because they are such a big group and are heavily armed. I remeber watching a documentry on it and they showed about a hundred FARC guys carrying assault rifles and heavy grenade launchers. They are a terrorist group though because they attack small villages and kidnapp people.

[jizzmonkey]

Is FARC terrorists ? , I thought they were para military or something like that ?

They might be called a paramilitary because they are such a big group and are heavily armed. I remeber watching a documentry on it and they showed about a hundred FARC guys carrying assault rifles and heavy grenade launchers. They are a terrorist group though because they attack small villages and kidnapp people.

I dont think they were considered "terrorist" until they started kidnappings and extortion, not to mention the involvment in the drug trade, they used to be just like the ELN, M-19 (now a days a political group) or even the UP ( union patriotica), the real paramilitary group now id the AUC (auto-defensas Colombianas) mostley ex-military with drug trade activity and little regard for innocent lifes ( the whole kill them all attitude)

[Hawaii_Light]

AUC (auto-defensas Colombianas) mostley ex-military with drug trade activity and little regard for innocent lifes ( the whole kill them all attitude)


yet there allies with the government :lol:

[jizzmonkey]

AUC (auto-defensas Colombianas) mostley ex-military with drug trade activity and little regard for innocent lifes ( the whole kill them all attitude)


yet there allies with the government :lol:

well .... not officially, but under the table I'm sure some deals are made.

[MARINO]

FAEC is just a terrorist group, a narcoguerrilla, they earn money with drus traffic, they kidnap and kill people, jus ****ing terrorists.

[SeanAshi]

the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, the FARC is Colombia’s oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency.Wanna piss Communist off? Put them in a room with some National Socialism advocate. :fork:

[SeanAshi]

Escobar's most lasting legacy is in the poor neighborhoods where he

recruited young assassins who placed bombs in public places and killed

dozens of politicians, police officers, judges and journalists. The terror

campaign, was waged to pressure the government against extraditing drug
traffickers to the United States.

The murder rate has halved since Escobar's days. Still, some 3,000 homicides

occur every year, making Medellin one of the deadliest places in the

Americas. Three car bombings this year, blamed by officials on a gang that

once worked with the Medellin cartel, killed eight people and brought back

memories of Escobar's terror.

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the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, the FARC is Colombia’s oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped Marxist insurgency.Wanna piss Communist off? Put them in a room with some National Socialism advocate. :fork:

put them in a room with any political persuasion in the spectrum.