Narco News Commentary: Remember the "necklace bomb"?

Last year, the Colombian and international press was in an uproar over the
video-taped violence in which a Colombian woman lost her life and a police officer lost his arms as a "necklace bomb" exploded on the victim's collar.

Colombian President Andrés Pastrana immediately blamed the FARC - the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - and this message shot around the world
in parroting press reports. Later, it was proved that the FARC was not involved, that the necklace bomb had been set by common criminals in an attempt to extort money from the victim. Still later, Narco News translated the memoirs of the former national police chief in Colombia, José Serrano, as he recounted the pressures by Pastrana (and, presumably, the United States government that he serves) to heap false blame for this tragedy on the guerrilla.

As the clock ticks toward the October 9th deadline for cancelling or extending the peace talks in Colombia, the mass media - eager for a war to cover - is up to the same old tricks. This time, the fingerprints of British and U.S. spy agencies and their media networks are all over the story, in which three Irish republicans were arrested in Colombia and charged with giving "terrorist" and "bomb-making" lessons to the Colombian rebels.

This two-for-one propaganda campaign serves a dual purpose: scuttling the peace
processes in Colombia and in Northern Ireland. It's the same script, driven by the same powers, in different parts of the world.

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