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| flipzi | Oct 31 2011, 09:21 AM Post #211 |
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a demining was done. that means the EOD could have used metal detectors in that operation. |
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| asianobserve | Nov 5 2011, 03:48 PM Post #212 |
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Hitman, this is for you: FARC Leader Alfonso Cano Killed in Colombia By AP / VIVIAN SEQUERA Saturday, Nov. 05, 2011, Time (BOGOTA, Colombia) — The top leader of Colombia's main rebel group, the bookish ideologue Alfonso Cano, was killed Friday in combat hours after his nearby camp was bombed, authorities said. The death was a major victory for President Juan Manuel Santos and comes just over a year after the military killed the rebels' field marshal. It is anything but a fatal blow, however, to the nearly half-century-old peasant-based Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Cano, 63, was killed in a remote area of the southwestern state of Cauca along with four other rebels an hour before dusk about 200 yards (meters) from the bunker he apparently fled after the 8:30 a.m. bombing raid, said Adm. Roberto Garcia, the navy chief. He had shaven off his trademark beard and his thick glasses were not found with him, Garcia said. Officials said he was positively identified by fingerprint. Officials did not say whether Cano was armed when he died or how many bullet wounds he had or where. Garcia said five rebels also were captured. Santos called Cano's killing "the hardest blow to this organization in its entire history" and cheered "Viva Colombia!" Former President Andres Pastrana, who knew Cano from failed 1998-2002 peace negotiations he held with the rebels, told The Associated Press that the death "has to make the FARC think it's losing the war." Cano had been the top target of Colombian authorities since September 2010, when they killed the insurgency's military chief, Jorge Briceno, in a bombing raid. Troops found seven computers and 39 thumb drives in Cano's bunker as well as a stash of cash in currencies including U.S. dollars, euros and Colombian pesos, said Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon. Authorities released a photograph of the deceased rebel's head. His face did not appear disfigured. Cano's body was taken to Popayan, the Cauca state capital, where Santos and the entire military high command planned to fly Saturday. The death of Cano, whose real name was Guillermo Leon Saenz, does not by any means signal the imminent demise of Latin America's last remaining leftist rebel army, analysts said. The FARC, which is mostly financed by drug trafficking, is comprised largely of peasants from backwater areas who have few other opportunities in a country where land ownership is highly concentrated in the hands of a few. Pastrana's peace commissioner during the failed peace talks, Victor Ricardo, said Cano's doesn't mean the end of the rebels, who are believed to number about 9,000. "This is a blow to the FARC's morale," Ricardo told the AP. "But by no means can people imagine that this can bring an end to the FARC." The FARC has a disciplined military hierarchy and someone is always in line to advance, he said. Ricardo said the next leader could be the rebels known as Ivan Marquez or Timochenko. Both are members of the FARC secretariat. The rebels' leadership has suffered a series of withering blows beginning in March 2008, when the FARC's foreign minister, Raul Reyes, was killed in a bombing raid on a rebel camp across the border in Ecuador. That raid yielded authorities a treasure trove of information from computers and digital storage. That same month, the FARC's revered co-founder, Manuel Marulanda, died in a mountain hideout of a heart attack. He was believed to be 78. Cano, the rebels' chief ideologist, was named to suceed him. Several other top commanders were subsequently killed and rebel desertions, including of midlevel cadres, reached record levels. And in July 2008, commandos posing as international aid workers rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military countractors and 12 others in a bloodless ruse. That all happened when Santos was defense minister under Alvaro Uribe. The two built military success on billions of dollars of U.S. aid, including training and close intelligence-sharing. Santos took office in August 2010 and was bouyed by the death of Briceno, who was better known by his nickname Mono Jojoy. He also began tightening the noose on Cano. Several times reports emerged that Cano had nearly been caught. The FARC has nevertheless been regrouping in in recent months, and rural violence has been on an uptick. Ironically, Cano had in a New Year's message praised the president for an initiative that later became enacted as law to redress and return stolen land to some 4 million victims of Colombia's long-running conflict. Most of those had been victims of far-right militias known as paramilitaries that have fought against the FARC, which was formed in 1964. Cano released a number of video messages after Santos took office in which he urged the president to engage in dialogue with the rebels. But Santos insisted that Cano needed make a peace gesture, such as halting all kidnappings. The FARC has not done that, and its fighters were blamed for two attacks last month that killed more than 20 soldiers. The group also holds an unknown number of kidnap victims, apparently including four Chinese oil workers seized in June. Associated Press writers Cesar Garcia in Bogota and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8...l#ixzz1coaNbpIR |
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| asianobserve | Nov 5 2011, 03:52 PM Post #213 |
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This is what we call as decapitation strikes. This kind of operation, done in the jungle, has become an expertise of the Colombian military. And it is proving to be effective at both demoralizing the FARC rebels and disorganizing them. The AFP can learn a lot from the Colombians - No more "we know everything BS"! |
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| Hitman | Nov 5 2011, 09:22 PM Post #214 |
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lol,, we have been doing airstrikes against rebel positions and had many success already in the past and just recent airstrikes in Zamboanga, and Columbia is just doing this now? Our troops have killed and captured many rebel leaders in the past like Nur Misuari, Joe Ma Sison, Commander Dante and if you read our history in insurgency our forces have defeated the Huks way back in the 50s under late Pres Magsaysay. what have you been smoking dude. Our fight against insurgency have been won miilitarily many times already its the corrupt system that keeps them thriving. Im no longer interested in this topic, just send my congrats to your Columbian friends that finally they learned how to use airstrikes. lol. one of our veterans must be advising them. lol. Im no longer interested of discussing this issue. so you can say whatever. there are more other interesting issues |
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| asianobserve | Nov 6 2011, 09:18 AM Post #215 |
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Oh, and what have your "airstrikes" accomplished so far? I know, a lot of hot air BS claims from credit seeking ground commanders and generals. You see you're missing the Colombian model's point, their ops are not mainly random airstrikes, these are intelligence coups that we cannot match simply because we are not thorough in intelligence. In fact, we have almost nil intelligence! That's why your vaunted airstrikes against Salam group indeed up again in humiliation. The commander leading it does not have a clear and real time intelligence of developments on the ground during the ops. That group escaped intact with its leader alive (to fight another day), haven't you learned? The AFP commanders should be retrained and advised by more experienced and successful militaries. The same goes intelligence officers and special operations men. An infusion of fresh ideas and strategies must be had if we want to win the insurgency that constantly humiliates us. But in the process we must embrace humility and admit that we need new ideas. |
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| asianobserve | Nov 6 2011, 09:23 AM Post #216 |
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The victory against Huk was accomplished when we still have a professional, motivated and well trained military (This was a real victory that our previous military can claim). Understand that we were also closely advised by the US military then. And that was 60 years ago! Since then our military has degenerated into Asia's disgrace. We don't have the professionalism, motivation and well-trained officers of yore, our commanders and officers are nothing but quick-solution seekers who are simply unable to comprehend strategy. BTW, you claim about capturing Nur Misuari, Joema? Their insurgencies have only blossomed since their "captures" (where are they now? In prison?) because our military is unable to constantly and effectively apply pressure to the remaining leadership. |
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| spraret | Mar 1 2012, 07:32 PM Post #217 |
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Philippine Muslim rebel group suspends commanders for deadly clash
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapac...or-deadly-clash |
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