Our Expert Panel on Disclosures From FARC Computer About Ecuador and Venezuela
By Andrew Cochran
(Edited to add Acrobat file of transcript.) On March 19, I moderated a Counterterrorism Foundation panel titled, "Compañeros de Armas ("Friends in Arms"): Chavez, FARC & South America" before a group of Congressional staff and other attendees on Capitol Hill in Washington. Panelists were Contributing Experts Douglas Farah of the NEFA Foundation and Jonathan Winer of Alston & Bird LLC, and Steven Monblatt, former counter-terrorism official at the OAS and State Department and now at the British-American Security Information Council. You can download the transcript in either a Word document or an Acrobat file. It begins with my introductions of the panelists and continuing through their remarks (edited for grammar and using the panelists' written remarks when available), and including the attendees' questions and the panelists' answers.
The experts presented information which was taken from the computer found when Colombian forces killed FARC commander Raul Reyes in a raid in Ecuador. Jonathan Winer discussed a number of the most disturbing details in his March 18 post, including FARC's plan to conduct 300 bombings of the Trans-Andean pipeline and the alliances between FARC, Ecuadorean President Correa and Venezuelan President Chavez; and FARC's direct involvement in a wide range of terrorist and criminal activities.
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