International police agency Interpol says Colombian officials did not tamper with computers they allege are proof that Venezuela financed Farc rebels.

The hard drives were purportedly seized after a raid on a rebel camp in Ecuador at the beginning of March.

But Interpol head Ronald Noble said the team had not analysed the information contained on the drives.

Venezuela and Ecuador have both dismissed the accusations as a US-backed smear campaign.

They say that any contacts with the Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia (Farc) were solely made as part of a humanitarian effort to free hostages held by the left-wing guerrillas.

Colombian forces attacked the Farc camp located just across the border in Ecuador on 1 March.

Authenticity confirmed

The computers they seized contain files which, according to Bogota, show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was personally involved in financing and supplying arms to the rebels.



They also suggest that Ecuador maintained links with the Farc.

The Colombian authorities asked Interpol to check the files after Mr Chavez accused them of faking the documents.

Mr Noble said that deep forensic analyses showed Colombia did not modify, delete or create any files, although it did not always follow internationally accepted methods when handling the computers.

But he was quick to stress that the fact that the files had not been tampered with did not prove that the information contained within them was totally accurate.

Washington has confirmed it believes the files are genuine and that the implications for Venezuela, if it has supported the Farc - which is on the US and European lists of terrorist organisations - could be very serious.

But the files use codes and aliases throughout and nowhere is Mr Chavez mentioned by name.

Senior Farc commander Raul Reyes was among 25 people killed in the attack.

The raid provoked the worst regional tensions in recent years, with Ecuador breaking off diplomatic relations with Colombia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7403685.stm

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and your uncle sam financed Taliban, Alquida, MKO, Saddam etc etc..

What is for dinner?

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Persians are willing to lose every thing except their honor.
Anglo-Saxons are willing to lose their honor but nothing else.

Bring it on, Bring it on.

We didn't finance Al-Kaida, Ali, but we have supported all the others you mentioned for reasons that were beneficial to us at the time..

Can you call that hypocrisy? Yes, you can, but all the talking Venezuela could do wouldn't help them if they angered us sufficiently.

Is Hugo Chavez anything more the a gnat buzzing in our ears though? Not really.

Let crazy man talk.

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Quote: and your uncle sam financed Taliban, Alquida, MKO, Saddam etc etc..

Because that has everything to do with the article amirite??

"amirite"


Speak English Mutha Tucker, do you speak it? Ha punk?

God damn foreigners

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Persians are willing to lose every thing except their honor.
Anglo-Saxons are willing to lose their honor but nothing else.

Bring it on, Bring it on.

I lol'd IRL..

Ali, it was so nice of you to come down from your tree and grace us with your simian intellect. Here is a peanut, now go brush your tail....

As "simian" (and ineloquent, for instance a series of better examples would be the long list of guerrilla movements in Latin America that have been financed by the US) as Ali's response is...it does an interesting point. I recently watched the feigned outrage of members of the Senate (or was it Congress) in the US over allegations that Iran was meddling in internal Iraqi politics (via financing and equipping Shia militias). I was quite amused as I mentally made note of all the internal politics that the "West" has done the same in...it was extensive.

So the question before us is two fold...do countries have the right to meddle in other countries affairs? If not then isn't it a breach of international law worthy of sanctions? Or is this and the Senate hearing, merely domestic theatre to ensure a relatively uninformed populace can continue to feel justified that they are on the side of good?

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Yes,Chavez is a criminal person because FARC is only not a pseudo political rebel group,but a criminal mafia duing every kind of hard crime like marijuana,heroine,cocaine industry and commerce,like kidnaping,roberry etc inside a great Colombia territory and Cheves is a great partner and support of them like the new Ecuador pres.
Paredon to then all.
Viva Colombia libre!!!