Colombia claims founder of FARC is dead. - disinfo alert.

The same constantly updated list placed Osama Bin Laden, "the Emir" at 202nd most wanted criminal in the world.

That information is supposedly updated with honest collaboration between member states, indeed just as more and more people think Osama is dead he goes down the list, and Tirofijo to the contrary went up the list one month after now the narcostate of Colombia say he died either of a heart attack or result of Colombian military action. Someone's telling porkies.
 http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/05/22/sucgc_art_luz-verde-al-codigo_872773.shtml

Meanwhile in the real world where we write about how others live; 8 years after he was nearly stabbed to death by far right terrorists William Parra a journalist with TeleSUR has denounced the witch-hunt in Colombia which has seen him and ten other civilians charged with "FARC politics".

 http://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/index.php?ckl=28223-NN

Venezuela's minister of Justice has rejected the use of Raul Reyes computers as evidence against Colombian civilians of collusion with FARC or of the Venezuelan or Ecuadorian states for that matter. You get your hands on a hard drive, you can do what you want with it. can't you?

Uribe's supporters are moving to hold a referendum to change the constitution so he may run for a third term as president or second re-election. Oddly enough the first dictator of cuadillo of Colombia was named Uribe too. In fact he was a double Uribe. Which you might think might appeal to far right terrorist elements and three cocaine cartles who back the current Uribe, a sort of sentimental streak which runs through fascistic minds.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Uribe_Uribe But you'd miss that the first Uribe was a "liberal" party member. The left wing party which is currently being attacked for which in fact the above mentioned Senator Piedad Cordoba was elected for. Which you might think means Colombians have elections like the good people of Crewe. Which would almost prompt me to ask you to drop a red pill so that the BBC's man in Bogota Jeremy Mc Dermott could get his "maybe this is news" stories filed quicker than one and four minutes after I tell ye there is a DIS INFO alert.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7418820.stm

But you need to know what to do with these things. You turn them around. Many of you now know stuff you didn't know before. And perhaps you'll read the next articles in the series and here what these people who want peace actually say for themselves. Hopefully some will see in this situation a very real and proximate danger of regional conflict and one which strategically could suit US overt armed intervention and attention whilst many people just worry about Iran. You'll be coming off that red pill soon. Relax, it all goes together even if it may not be pithily explained so. We work up to the Mormon army of agent smiths very slowly. A little titbit or factoid which might tickle the trivial bent of mind when in the next article of this series on Senator Piedad Cordoba we look at which agencies are actually working in the triangle of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Like you didn't think Sarkozy stuck his snout in just for the positive public opinion did you?

ANNCOL is "the news agency of the new Colombia" which conduits reliably for the general secretaryship of the FARC. Together with "TeleSUR" it verified the 23/6/05 Raul Reyes proposals of a peace process. Of course FARC have a website too. Like so does the City of London plod and Interpol, but nobody really goes there for information. When Colombia assassinated Raul Reyes they flew out his body from Ecuador in helicopters. In this sort of game - no body no death. These people just slip down the most wanted list of Interpol like Osama (as mentioned above).

Unless there is confirmation from FARC of the death I reckon this thread is closed and all that is needed to help people see the multiple emotions, victims, issues and sides to both the conflict and thus its resolution - is to get them out of the knee jerk murdering FARC thought bubble. Remember Spain has been the largest arms supplier to all sides in the conflictive region under both Aznar and Zapatero. The illustration from Spain's state news agency says it all really. Which is why I've left it.

Or do you follow a quaint notional idea that a third world state up to the gills in ________ can simply stop having a terror problem if leaders of rebels are killed and critics of the regime are imprisoned?
I propose commandante Zwarqwuark as the new brains and hard man behind the baddies. At least with terrorists you get around to having names sooner or later. Pablo Escobar was an exception rather than a rule. We know his name because he got into sponsoring a football club and then his little romp into community affairs when he offered to clear the national debt if they'd just leave him alone in the jungle with the sort of girls and boys who liked being called bitch. Or maybe they just do it for a living. shocking stuff. You can see why the Daily Mail and Telegraph want the nice clean living squeeky chap in the photo.

Matilda Matilda told such lies.
children will still sell roses
so they can sniff glue.


BASTA!
this story needs to end.

I couldn't resist leaving the links to the edit history pages of Wikipedia's English & Spanish versions of today's disinformation romp.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manuel_Marulanda&action=history
 http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manuel_Marulanda_V%C3%A9lez&action=history

... is a dead terrorist.

Thanks to all those readers, analysts, commentators and interested parties who took part in the game outlined in the penultimate comment "Who do you want to be leader of FARC".

Appropriately enough FARC have decided to say they've made the decision themselves. They did so not as is habitual through the Stockholm based news agency named in the third last comment but in video form as aired today on TeleSUR the continental wide broadcasting network set up by a variety of states under the initial sponsorship of Hugo Chavez.

you may read about it here  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399527.html

In a small way the medium and manner of the communique is worthy of attention. Because in these types of games with huge consequences it is the little details that really are worthy of attention. Colombia claimed that their source for the dis-info they launched yesterday with two different death dates for "Tirofijo" and two different causes of death (heart attack or as result of their bombing of the fireproof jungle) came from "a source which had never let them down before". Quite. Gurgle. Ribbid. It is an often overlooked curiousity of history that both G.Herbert Bush and M. Sergeyevich Gorbachev learnt about the fall of the Berlin Wall from television pre-broadcast news briefings rather than the intention of their respective intelligence services or diplomatic stations on site.

We now live in an age where Brazil found its first coca plantations when an internet chatroom frequented by adolescents discussed anamolous images of rainforest found on Google Earth. We have gone beyond the stage when TV news briefings provided states with some of the best intelligence.

The fact that FARC chose to release their vid directly to TeleSUR not only belied the fact that Colombia considers the telly network to be a source which has never let it down before but also a shift in the wider continental context within which that organisation wishes to cast its own future as the last terrorist organisation of nominally political motivation in activity.

Just as TeleSUR's own staff are now being caught up in Colombia's attempts to criminalise comment on FARC as "Farco-politics" (see the second comment to the article above) it appears that the public opinion of the continent's telly viewers will play the greatest role yet in providing objectives to those with doctorates in spin. Colombia like many other states before will now have to come to terms with the influence a trans-national commercial TV network has on its own propaganda.

Never get a doctorate in spin. You go dizzy.
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399527.html

If you help the state of Colombia find the grave of FARC's founder
they will give you 5 billion pesos
or 1.7 million Euros
or 1,287,920 sterling pounds.

I suppose you could ask them for a submarine full of cocaine instead which would make your reward more transportable. You'd have to ask them though. After all as you well know (surely) one and a quarter billion quid doesn't fit in a hold-all sports bag. "You'd need a bank account to transfer it to" cry the experienced. Meanwhile in an issue explored at this thread -  http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399608.html Colombia is now claiming that FARC were planning to attack Madrid, Spain.

 http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/FARC/planeaban/atentar/Madrid/informacion/hallada/ordenador/Raul/Reyes/elpepuint/20080528elpepuint_7/Tes