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BUSH
RENAMES, EXPANDS PLAN COLOMBIA -
ADDS $550 MILLION IN PREP FOR WAR
EQUADOR
MOVES 10,000 TROOPS TO COLOMBIAN BORDER
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BETWEEN DRUG WAR AND WALL STREET HEALTH BECOMING TRANSPARENT
FTW, March 15, 2001 - Less than a week after diplomats
from 25 Latin American and European countries,
as well as Japan, defied US interests by meeting
jointly with representatives of rebel groups at the invitation of
the Colombian government, and just days after two
sharp losses caused the Dow to plunge more
than 700 points, President Bush added $550 million to Plan
Colombia and acknowledged its regional dimensions by re-christening
it "The Andean Initiative."
Signaling the opening moves in a regional war,
Equador has simultaneously moved 10,000 troops to
the Colombian border in anticipation of increased
hostilities as US military personnel increase air operations
from the US base in the coastal city of Manta.
All of these events, occurring
in close proximity, add further credibility to FTW's long held
position that a Vietnam-style conflict in Colombia was essential to
prevent the total collapse of the American stock
market. FTW has previously documented how
an estimated $250 billion in illegal drug money
is laundered through the US economy annually and how a 1999 "solicitation"
by NYSE Chairman Richard Grasso for the FARC guerillas to invest
their drug profits in Wall Street was summarily rejected. The leftist
rebels chose instead to keep their money in Colombia.
Also irritating for the
American economy and markets is the fact that Colombian rebels, who
now control the southern third of Colombia,
occupy lands estimated to hold billions of
barrels of high grade crude oil sought after by, among others,
Occidental Petroleum. A
total US market collapse, if unchecked, would also threaten to destabilize
the US dollar which is the dominant reserve currency
around the world. That could have the effect
of setting off a worldwide depression similar to that of
1929-38.
As a rapidly coalescing European Union attempts
to find economic strength by distancing itself
from US influence (and instability) the US has countered
with increasing disregard for near unanimous global opposition to
its plans for war. That war will inevitably involve
US military personnel in combat operations.
The strongest confirmation that we have seen of
the inevitability of war is a report today
on www.narconews.com citing Village Voice media critic Cynthia
Cotts who noted on March 2 that "The New York Times plans to move
its Buenos Aires bureau to Bogota or Caracas sometime
soon. Other papers are following suit. The
Los Angeles Times plans to open a Bogota Bureau next week
and the Washington Post is moving its Caracas bureau chief there as
well... Even the Wall Street Journal recently established
an Andean Bureau in Caracas [Venezuela]."
The timeline of recent events tells the story better
than any long narrative. There can be no doubt
that major American media, which also trade their
stocks on Wall Street and has suffered serious losses, was aware of
these developments and has deliberately hidden them
from the American people.
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March 7 - While participating in an International
Financial Congress in Moscow focusing on the
US economic crisis, FTW Editor Mike Ruppert offered his
opinion that the US markets would crash, especially if the EU and the
world community found the common voice to oppose
American plans for war in Colombia. Referring
to a unanimous (with one abstention) vote by the EU in February
to oppose the $1.3 billion military aid package, Ruppert suggested
that the way to promote the Euro dollar and insulate
fragile economies like those in Russia and
Eastern Europe was to provide Colombia and South America with
the support necessary to oppose US war plans.
March 8 - As reported by Reuters on March 9, diplomats
from 25 countries from Europe and South America,
as well as Japan traveled to rebel held territory
in Colombia at the request of the Colombian government to engage
in dialogue supporting an end to hostilities. Such
a peace initiative, jointly sponsored by Colombian
President Andres Pastrana and the leftist rebels,
indicated a split with US backed moves to train and deploy Colombian
combat troops for an all out offensive against rebel
positions. This followed months of increasing
hostilities, aerial spraying of herbicides on civilian
food crops and firefights that have seen US civilian contractors
engaged in combat with rebel troops. Plans
for the meeting were unknown to FTW while in Moscow but they confirmed
that European and Asian intelligence services and
foreign ministries were equally aware of economic
vulnerability in the US and opportunities for European
growth and stability if war was successfully avoided.
March 12 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops
436 points, the fifth largest one day drop
in history. March 14 - As reported by Agence
France Press (AFP), Equador announces that it
has moved 10,000 combat troops to the Colombian border.
March 14 - The Dow drops another 317 points.
March 14 - The AP reports on expanding US military
operations at the air base at Manta, Equador
where American airmen "armed with M-16 assault rifles"
guard US Navy spy planes as dozens of new bars, motels and restaurants
open up around the $62 million expansion of runway and maintenance
facilities at the base. This in anticipation of the arrival of
many more American servicemen.
March 15 - Veteran journalist Al Giordano at www.narconews.com
catches a story, again by AFP, that has gone
completely unreported by the major US media
in spite of being front page news all over Latin America. The State
Department on March 12 held a briefing and issued
a statement from Secretary of State Colin
Powell indicating that the Bush Administration was adding $550
million to the Colombian military aid package, renamed as The Andean
Initiative, and intentionally widening the effort
which he now officially acknowledged as being
a "conflict."
AFP quoted Powell as saying, "The new
administration will try to regionalize the Colombian
conflict, so that the countries in the area
recognize that this is their problem as much as it is Colombia's."
This announcement, kept a secret from the American
people by our own press, brings the nations
of Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela and Panama deliberately
- and as we have been consistently predicting - directly into
the military operations zone. We
have been here before. It was called Vietnam.
[More details will appear in the March 31 issue
of "From The Wilderness" for paid
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