Interpol Confirms Authenticity Of Raul Reyes's Computer Files
BAD NEWS FOR HUGO CHAVEZ AND US DEMOCRATS--
Instapundit reported the news from El Universal:
The information found in the computers of the deceased leader of the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), Raúl Reyes, was not manipulated by Colombian authorities, according to an Interpol's report to be released next May 15, as disclosed by Bogota El Tiempo daily newspaper.The Colombian National Ministry of Defense reported last month that authorities had seized 60 pounds of uranium that belonged to FARC after computers were captured.
Seized uranium belonging to FARC terrorists. (RCN-TV and Miami Herald)
But, the fact that the information has now been confirmed as authentic is horrible news for Colombia's FARC supporting neighbors and US Democrats.
Here is a partial list of what Colombian investigators found on the FARC terror leader's computer:
-- FARC connections with Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa
-- Records of $300 million offerings from Hugo Chavez
-- Thank you notes from Hugo Chavez dating back to 1992
-- Uranium purchasing records
-- Admit to killing the sister of former President Cesar Gaviria
-- Admit to planting a 2003 car bomb killing 36 at a Bogota upper crust club
-- Directions on how to make a Dirty Bomb
-- Information that led to the discovery of 60 pounds of uranium
-- Letter to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi asking for cash to buy surface-to-air missiles
-- Meetings with "gringos" about Barack Obama
-- Information on Russian illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout who was later captured
-- FARC funding Correa's campaign
-- Cuban links to FARC
-- Links to US Democrats
-- $480,000 of FARC cash in Costa Rican safe house
-- $100,000 to President Correa's campaign for election
...And, more.
Previously:
Top FARC Dog Raul Reyes Killed By Colombian Forces
Chavez Warns of War... Says Colombia Is "Israel of South America!"
TENSIONS RISING-- Documents Link Ecuador's President to FARC
EXPLOSIVE NEWS-- Chavez Paid $300 Million to FARC!
Colombia: FARC Has Uranium-- Working On Dirty Bomb!
France Comes Clean... Admits Holding Talks With Dead FARC Terrorist Reyes
CAPTURED FARC COMPUTERS NAME BARACK OBAMA
FARC Retaliates-- Bombs Oil Pipeline in Colombia
Colombia Crisis Continues-- Chavez Busted in Pack of Lies
CHAVEZ PHONE CALL EXPOSED RAUL REYES!! ...Video of Ambush
Uribe Humiliates Ecuadorean Leader For FARC Ties at Summit
Captured FARC Documents Link Democrats to Terror Group
FARC Cash Seized in Costa Rica Linked to Iran & Venezuela
Busted!... Democratic Point Man on Colombia Caught Dealing With FARC
COLOMBIA SEIZES FARC TERRORIST URANIUM STASH!
Ecuadorean President Correa Took $100,000 From FARC to Fund Campaign
posted by Gateway Pundit at 5/05/2008 12:11:00 PM
23 Comments:
The WSJ opinion piece about James McGovern (D - for dumba** - Massachusetts) is incredible. Someone explain to me how this is not sedition and why he shouldn't be prosecuted for such?
Publicize these documents now!
1 minor nit-picky point: The screencap says 30 kilograms of uranium were found, which is actually 66 pounds.
Either way--that's a boatload of uranium
Thanks lcvrwc- I rounded it out at 60 pounds.
That might be trouble, if the US media bothers to mention it. But of course, they won't. And Republicans are too wimpy to make a big deal of it, either.
Nothing to see here... Nothing to see here... Just a distraction from the important issues of the day - like universal health care and fixing our broken souls.
Chimpy W. McBushitler is probably behind this!!!!
President Obama will save the day with some really, really, really stern talk...
Great post, Jim!
St Wendeler @ Another Rovian Conspiracy
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thanks GP..
already passed it on..
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From the WSJ article...
The Reyes hard drive reveals an ardent effort to do business directly with the FARC by Congressman James McGovern (D., Mass.), a leading opponent of the free-trade deal. Mr. McGovern has been working with an American go-between, who has been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia's elected and popular government.
Now you know why Nancy Pelosi has been doing all the things that she can to piss off Columbia. Now you know why the Democrats have met with just about every major terrorist organization in the past 18 months.
The why is that the Democrats are working in conjunction with these terrorist organizations to facilitate and enable them to attack the United States.
They are committing treason.
Terrific post, Jim!!
See here, people. There is no Uranium. Got that? Good. Uranium is a just a scare tactic to get BushHitleriburton elected again. Besides, if Uranium does exist, it has many, many peaceful purposes and is generally found inside suitcases, duffel bags, vegetable crates, etc.
The important thing is for you to understand that there are no dangerous weapons or materials, and we have no enemies, just friends we haven't made yet thanks to George Bush.
Oh, before I forget, there are no national security implications of having a porous border and holstile regimes that lay to our South. No immigrant is illegal, even if they are driving a bus full of Uranium. Which doesn't exist, but if it does... well you get the picture.
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flashback 3/13/06
excerpt:
[Retired Venezuelan Vice Adm. Jose Rafael Huizi-Clavier said the mining arrangements negotiated last month with Iran are broad and unspecific and could easily include uranium.]
further complications.. 3/29/08
excerpt:
[The recent disclosures that the Uranium cache, destined for the FARC, and seized by Colombian law enforcement authorities, appears to have originated in Venezuela begs the question: where else did the covertly - mined Uranium ore go? The answer will not surprise readers who are closely following Iran's illegal nuclear weapons development programme, but the identity of the facilitators is very troubling, because it may signal that another global terrorist organisation, Al - Qaida, was also a recipient of Venezuelan Uranium. Read on.]
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That pineapple-head Chavez is right when he says that Columbia is the "Israel" of South America!
Columbia, like Israel, is the only friend the US has in a sea of enemies.
Smart move to have Interpol check out those HardDrives!
I asume that people which are currently checking news around the world have a minimum level of culture. If so I am COLOMBIAN, not COLUMBIAN. COLOMBIA is a country in south america. COLUMBIA is somewhere in the USA. Please just as a matter of respect to foreighn countries please atleast spell the countries name correctly.
P.D. Uribe we are all behind you, please continue to hunt down this criminals like rats that they are =)
FYI
'Interpol's Report Confirms that the Supposed FARC Computers Were Manipulated
May 16th 2008, by Carlos Martínez & Pascual Serrano
Last March 1, the Colombian Army attacked a FARC camp in Ecuadoran territory. The army supposedly captured three laptops, three flash drives and two external hard disks. And it must be said "supposedly" because said evidence was not obtained under established police or judicial procedures, but rather through military aggression in a foreign country, making any evidence obtained thereby illegal and unusable in any judicial procedure.
In order to give validity to this "evidence," the Colombian authorities asked Interpol to produce a report certifying the "authenticity" of the archives contained in the equipment. Yesterday, March 15, the report was made public; a reading of which, calls attention to the following conclusions:
First, a reference is made to "data classified as ULTRA SECRETO" (Page 20 of the report) when part of the data was already published in the El País newspaper.
The most important is that the report itself acknowledges in its "Finding 2b" (Page 30) that the Colombian authorities manipulated the computers and storage devices and that "Access to the data contained in the eight FARC computer exhibits...did not conform to internationally recognized principles for handling electronic evidence by law enforcement."
etc
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3448
Brian
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Brian @ 5:35 PM..
seems everyone else disagrees with Venezuelanalysis..
Colombian Newspaper Reports INTERPOL Found No Tampering with FARC Computers
excerpt:
[According to the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, computer forensics experts from INTERPOL have found that the personal computers found by Colombia in its March 1 cross-border raids of a FARC camp in Ecuador retain their integrity and have not been changed since the raid.
Initial findings by the Australian, Spanish and Singapore experts from INTERPOL reportedly have found that the computers' archival register, which show the time and date of each entry, show no changes to the computer following the raids. According to the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo, the INTERPOL experts will on May 15 release an inventory of the texts, photos, videos, and other types of content in the computer belonging to Raul Reyes, the FARC leader killed in the raid.]
Interpol confirms authenticity of captured FARC data
excerpt:
[Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble announced in Bogota that the global police group had not found any sign that the data had been disturbed, altered or corrupted after the computers were seized in a March 1 raid by Colombian soldiers on a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombian camp inside Ecuador.
"Based on our careful and comprehensive forensic examination of each of the eight seized FARC computer exhibits, and on consideration of all the evidence reviewed by our experts, Interpol concludes that there was no tampering with any data on the computer exhibits following their seizure," Noble said.]
Interpol confirms authenticity of captured FARC data
Interpol: Colombia did not doctor FARC files
excerpt:
[Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble presented the findings of the two-month investigation Thursday, saying that "there was no tampering with or altering of any of the data contained in the user files by any of the Colombian law-enforcement authorities following their seizure on March 1."]
Interpol says Colombia FARC documents authentic
excerpt:
[It took Interpol two weeks running 10 computers simultaneously 24 hours a day to break into the encrypted files, the agency said. It did not reveal what was discovered on the files.]
Interpol confirms authenticity of captured FARC data
excerpt:
[Based on the computer files, Colombia has accused Chavez of funneling 300 million dollars to the rebels, and the FARC of seeking to buy 50 kilograms of uranium for weapons use.
Bogota said FARC's top commander Manuel Marulanda, in one document, mentions having helped Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa -- a populist, leftist leader like Chavez -- win the 2006 election.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that the documents showed that senior officials in Venezuela proposed helping the rebels obtain surface-to-air missiles to pursue their war against the Colombian government.
And last week, the Wall Street Journal also reported that 100 documents it reviewed from the computer trove describe meetings between guerrilla commanders and top Venezuelan officials including Chavez himself.
They show Venezuela offering to help FARC obtain "rockets" and "bazookas" from foreign suppliers and to use a Venezuelan seaport to receive them, the paper said.
According to Interpol, the computers contained 37,872 written documents, 452 spreadsheets, 210,888 images, 22,481 web pages, 10,537 multimedia files, 983 encrypted files, and almost 8,000 email addresses.]
oh btw.. isn't Chavez more or less in control of Venezuela's newspapers, media outlets, propaganda, etc??
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All that proves is the media is not doing its homework. And as we know, the western media has been demonising Chavez for years.
The interpol sec general is an american, and guess where he used to work?
Brian
more here:
'Attached is a letter I wrote to the Financial Times of London about
the pristine Colombian laptops.
Matt
Dear Sir:
I must take exception to your article entitled "Interpol Says
Captured FARC Documents are Genuine" that appeared on May 16.
Interpol's report is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/58ags5
Throughout their report they state that they draw no conclusions as
the authenticity of the material examined nor to whether the
documents were forged or authentic. They only stated that no user
files had been altered after March 1, 2008.
Additionally, the report raises several questions. On page 30 of the
report they note that thousands of systems files had been created,
modified and deleted after March 1st. It is not presently known who
altered thousands of these systems files after they came into
Colombian custody on March 1. Nor do we know why thousands of these
systems files were altered and deleted.
Interpol does recommend later in their report that police forces
around the world should be better educated on correct protocols for
proper handling in the chain of custody for future investigations of
this nature. What made that recommendation somehow appropriate here?
Additionally, page 43 of the report shows several photographs of the
laptops and hard drives in question. All of them are in pristine
condition, an apparent contradiction to months in the jungle and
surviving a bombing raid so lethal as to kill numerous FARC
commanders and numerous nearby civilians. It is only logical to
assume that local fires were caused by this attack.
One assumes that if these laptops and hard drives contained such a
treasure trove of information Mr. Reyes and other key FARC operatives
would have kept them very close at hand. How they managed to survive
such an attack in pristine condition deserves an explanation.
Matt Dubuque
San Francisco, CA
The Case of the Pristine Colombian Laptops
Posted by: "Matthew Dubuque" mdubuque@yahoo.com mdubuque
Sat May 17, 2008 1:31 am (PDT)
I recommend that everyone read the actual Interpol report. We need to
have knowledgeable people review it carefully rather than making
extensive comments without reading more than second hand accounts.
This is a pretext for war and it needs to be carefully rebutted.
The Interpol report is at:
http://tinyurl.com/58ags5
Page 43 of this report shows fotos of the alleged "recovered" laptops
and hard drives. They are all in immaculate and pristine condition,
shiny and new, which contradicts the assertion they had been used so
long as to acquire nearly 700 gigs of information.
Examine the fotos for yourself in Appendix one to the report.
Additionally, these computers and drives look so shiny and new that it
is extremely difficult to conclude they had been in the sweltering
equatorial jungles of Ecuador for very long.
Additionally an extreme amount of lethality was used in this attack
that used thousands of pounds of high explosives.
There is no trace of smoke damage, fire damage or burning from this
armed attack which caused a large fire and killed several civilians
as "collateral damage".
Why are these computers in such pristine condition after such a massive
attack and likely firebombing?
If these computers contained information as sensitive as was alleged,
it is most likely they would have been very close to key commanders.
Surely then not all of them would have survived in such perfect
condition, especially exposed thumbdrives.
Matt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x4331
Brian
'oh btw.. isn't Chavez more or less in control of Venezuela's newspapers, media outlets, propaganda, etc??'
No, most of those are controlled by the white oligarchs, the same oneds who took part in the 2002 coup. The military coup leaders thanked RCTV.
Brian
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Brian @ 10:18 PM..
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
whatever, just whatever..
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Brain..
i'll stick with the Interpol finding vs out of context speculative analysis, but thank you anyways..
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if you insist on sticking with interpol, make sure you read ALL of their report.
'Now we would have to ask how the Colombian police found that key information so quickly amongst the more than 39,000 word files and several million documents contained on the computers that the INTERPOL report says it would take 1,000 years to read'
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3461
Brian
'But Interpol admitted that lacking evidence doesn't prove "there was no tampering." In fact, some files had future date stamps and other indications of data alteration. It questions their authenticity, and Interpol (deep in its report) acknowledged that Columbia likely manipulated the contents - with an explanation needing close reading to understand. It delegitimizes Colombian claims and would get an international court to dismiss them out of hand. Reporters doing their job should as well. Data accuracy can't be verified or worse - they may be entirely fraudulent, and made-in-Washington mischief may be behind it.
Interpol's report continued saying "between 1 and 3 March, direct access to the seized computer exhibits....did not follow internationally recognized principles in the handling of electronic evidence under ordinary circumstance." Its experts "verified that this....had no effect" on file contents, but other report evidence contradicts that statement. Interpol, in fact, stated that "Direct access may complicate validating this evidence for purposes of its introduction in a judicial proceeding because law enforcement is then required to demonstrate or prove that the direct access did not have a material impact on the purpose for which the evidence is intended."
In short, hard drive data prove nothing and may, in fact, be fake. With US involvement clear, it wouldn't be the first time, and Washington is rich in talent to do it.
Independent computer experts are also troubled. They believe that failure to follow standard evidence handling procedures seriously jeopardizes its reliability. With care, forensic specialists or computer professionals can add, delete or alter hard drive material without leaving a footprint. '
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3459
Brian
aoggc said:
'Uribe we are all behind you,'
then you are behind a narco-terrorist, and mass murderer. But then americans hev a long history of consorting with dictators, tyrants and terrorists...Or have people forgotten the US support for the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan!
heres a fuller list of the sorts US has consorted with:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html
Brian
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