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10-06-2003, 01:55 AM
At least 16 US companies, including Lockheed-Martin, DynCorp, California Microwave Systems (a division of Northrop-Grumman), Matcom and Arinc, are paid by the US State Department to perform different tasks in Colombia’s war, according to a fact-sheet published last month by the government-friendly Bogotá daily El Tiempo. The activities range from providing bodyguards for Colombian top officials to directing air strikes.
British troops – including members of the elite SAS unit – participate in the brutal counterinsurgency war in Colombia. A recent investigation by the British daily Guardian identified an increasing British military assistance to Colombia in key areas such as SAS training of Colombian jungle commandos, a surge in the supply of military hardware and intelligence equipment, and military advice to the Colombian army's new counter-guerrilla mountain units. No British casualties have however been confirmed since June 1989, when former SAS-instructor Peter McAleese – who had been contracted by Colombian army officers and the Gacha drug cartel to attack a FARC guerrilla headquarter – was fatally wounded in a helicopter crash.
http://www.anncol.com/July_2003/2407_us_casualties.htm (Leftist Site)
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In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture released Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, Keith Stansell, right, sits next to a Marxist (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/farc/cms.htm) rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at an undisclosed location in southern Colombia. U.S. military contractors (http://www.africaaviation.com/aannews-jan03/aannews-mar03/aannews-Apr/news027.htm) Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, who are being held captive by Colombian rebels, were reportedly on an intelligence mission for Pentagon contractor California Microwave Systems (http://sensor1.northgrum.com/calmw/) when their single-engine plane crash-landed on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jorge Enrique Botero)
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In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture released Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, U.S. military contractor Marc Gonsalves, sits inside a shack at an undisclosed place in southern Colombia, guarded by a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). U.S. military contractors Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, who are being held captive by Colombian rebels, were reportedly on an intelligence mission for Pentagon contractor California Microwave Systems when their single-engine plane crash-landed on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jorge Enrique Botero)
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In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture released Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, Tom Howes sits inside a shack at an undisclosed place in southern Colombia, guarded by two rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). U.S. military contractors Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, who are being held captive by Colombian rebels, were reportedly on an intelligence mission for Pentagon contractor California Microwave Systems when their single-engine plane crash-landed on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jorge Enrique Botero)
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U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Bonnette, left, of the Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne division, talks by radio as an unidentified soldier sits next to him during a night patrol mission in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, late Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Bonnette of the Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne division, uses his night vision equipment to observe a territory during a night patrol mission in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, late Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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The outgoing US Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating speaks during a news conference at the Jufair Base in Manama, Bahrain, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. Keating, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said Sunday that coalition naval strength in the Arabian Gulf will constantly fluctuate but remain strong enough to deal with any regional hostilities. (AP Photo/Ali Fraidoon)
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Indonesian military armored vehicles are deployed in the compound of the 9th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit venue Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 in Bali, Indonesia, where leaders of 10-member ASEAN nations, joined by China, India, Japan and South Korea (news - web sites), start a two-day meeting from Tuesday. Security around the resort island was tight, with about 7,000 police and soldiers guarding against a repeat of last year's terrorist attacks, the deadliest since the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/AchmadIbrahim)
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US troops carry external fuel tanks for jet fighter aircraft at the US-led coalition's Bagram Air Base north of Kabul(AFP/Shah Marai)
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US troops patrol in a village near the US-led coalition's Bagram Air Base north of Kabul(AFP/Shah Marai)
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A Chechen woman carries her child past a Russian solder sitting on an APC near a polling station in the village of Kurchaloi in Chechnya (news - web sites). Polling stations were open for inhabitants to vote in the Presidential elections in the war ravaged republic.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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British troops – including members of the elite SAS unit – participate in the brutal counterinsurgency war in Colombia. A recent investigation by the British daily Guardian identified an increasing British military assistance to Colombia in key areas such as SAS training of Colombian jungle commandos, a surge in the supply of military hardware and intelligence equipment, and military advice to the Colombian army's new counter-guerrilla mountain units. No British casualties have however been confirmed since June 1989, when former SAS-instructor Peter McAleese – who had been contracted by Colombian army officers and the Gacha drug cartel to attack a FARC guerrilla headquarter – was fatally wounded in a helicopter crash.
http://www.anncol.com/July_2003/2407_us_casualties.htm (Leftist Site)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=436584
In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture released Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, Keith Stansell, right, sits next to a Marxist (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/farc/cms.htm) rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at an undisclosed location in southern Colombia. U.S. military contractors (http://www.africaaviation.com/aannews-jan03/aannews-mar03/aannews-Apr/news027.htm) Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, who are being held captive by Colombian rebels, were reportedly on an intelligence mission for Pentagon contractor California Microwave Systems (http://sensor1.northgrum.com/calmw/) when their single-engine plane crash-landed on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jorge Enrique Botero)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=436582
In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture released Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, U.S. military contractor Marc Gonsalves, sits inside a shack at an undisclosed place in southern Colombia, guarded by a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). U.S. military contractors Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, who are being held captive by Colombian rebels, were reportedly on an intelligence mission for Pentagon contractor California Microwave Systems when their single-engine plane crash-landed on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jorge Enrique Botero)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=436583
In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture released Friday, Sept. 12, 2003, Tom Howes sits inside a shack at an undisclosed place in southern Colombia, guarded by two rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). U.S. military contractors Tom Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, who are being held captive by Colombian rebels, were reportedly on an intelligence mission for Pentagon contractor California Microwave Systems when their single-engine plane crash-landed on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Jorge Enrique Botero)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=436492
U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Bonnette, left, of the Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne division, talks by radio as an unidentified soldier sits next to him during a night patrol mission in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, late Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=436493
U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Bonnette of the Bravo company, 2-502 infantry regiment, 101st Airborne division, uses his night vision equipment to observe a territory during a night patrol mission in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, late Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=436413
The outgoing US Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating speaks during a news conference at the Jufair Base in Manama, Bahrain, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. Keating, the commander of the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet said Sunday that coalition naval strength in the Arabian Gulf will constantly fluctuate but remain strong enough to deal with any regional hostilities. (AP Photo/Ali Fraidoon)
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20031006/capt.bal10110060047.indonesia_asean_summit_bal101.jpg
Indonesian military armored vehicles are deployed in the compound of the 9th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit venue Monday, Oct. 6, 2003 in Bali, Indonesia, where leaders of 10-member ASEAN nations, joined by China, India, Japan and South Korea (news - web sites), start a two-day meeting from Tuesday. Security around the resort island was tight, with about 7,000 police and soldiers guarding against a repeat of last year's terrorist attacks, the deadliest since the carnage of Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/AchmadIbrahim)
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US troops carry external fuel tanks for jet fighter aircraft at the US-led coalition's Bagram Air Base north of Kabul(AFP/Shah Marai)
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US troops patrol in a village near the US-led coalition's Bagram Air Base north of Kabul(AFP/Shah Marai)
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A Chechen woman carries her child past a Russian solder sitting on an APC near a polling station in the village of Kurchaloi in Chechnya (news - web sites). Polling stations were open for inhabitants to vote in the Presidential elections in the war ravaged republic.(AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
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