FBI INVESTIGATING ITS MULTINATIONALS CRIMES IN COLOMBIA OR IS IT PROVIDING COVER FOR ITS OWN GOVERNMENT CRIMES? http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/20413-fbi-in-colombia-investigating-paramilitary-links-to-multinationals-report.html  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has visited members of the demobilized AUC jailed in Colombia to offer them benefits in exchange for information about their former organization's ties to multinationals, particularly coal giant Drummond, newspaper El Tiempo reported Sunday.According to the newspaper, special agents Marc L. Varri and Manuel Ortega have been in Colombia for four months, questioning senior members of the AUC who are thought to have concrete evidence of payments made by U.S. multinationals to the paramilitary organization.Five out six paramilitaries are involved in the murder of three labor rights activists who were killed while working for Drummond, the coal company currently is facing a lawsuit by families of victims of paramilitary violence, allegedly ordered by Drummond's Colombia office."They are proposing we testify before a Washington prosecutor, Elisa Pottea, and in exchange they offer to arrange a 25% lowering of the sentence in Colombia, parole and the possibility to travel to the U.S. as protected witnesses with a visa for the whole family," one of the paramilitaries who says he received a visit from the FBI told El Tiempo."This is good news. Because of delays and permissions of [Colombia's prison authority] INPEC, we have not been able to get all these testimonies," Terry Collingsworth, the attorney of the paramilitary victims in the Drummond case, told the newspaper.According to El Tiempo, Drummond refused to comment on the matter and the newspaper is waiting for a response of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota about how FBI agents are able to offer lower sentences imposed by Colombian courts.

[NOW IM ALL FOR JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF PARAMILITARY VIOLENCE WICH CARRIED OUT CRIMES ON BEHALF OF US MULTINATIONALS...HOWEVER,ONE MUST ASK,ISNT IT IRONIC ,THOUGH, CONSIDERING THAT US GOV ITSELF FUNDED PLAN PATRIOTA WHERE IT TRAINED COLOMBIAS MILITARY (WITH PARAMILITARY GROUPS  PRESENT) IN META REGION OF OPERATIONS,EXACTLY WHERE NUMEROUS MASS GRAVES HAVE BEEN FOUND IN RECENT YEARS?ISNT IT IRONIC THAT A US BERKELEY STUDY FEW YEARS AGO ALSO EPXOSED HOW US WAS COVERING UP ITS CUMPLICITY IN CRIMES IN COLOMBIA BY EXTRADITING KNOWN PARAMILITARY LEADERS DOWN IN COLOMBIA TO HAMPER JUDICIAL INVESTIGATIONS IN COLOMBIA INTO SUCH CRIMES?ONE HAS TO POINT THIS OUT,OF COURSE,AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE,ADRIAAN ANSELMA(A ''DUTCH''FOREIGNER LIVING IN COLOMBIA WHOS OTHER JOB BESIDES YELLOW JOURNALISM,INCLUDED BEING A SINGER IN A HEAVY METAL BAND,WONT MENTION THIS,AND FOR OBVIOUS REASONS,HE WAS A LEADING CHEERLEADER FOR EX PRESIDENT AND TOP NARCOTRAFICKER ALVARO URIBE,WHO HIMSELF COMMANDED THESE PARAMILITARY DEATHSQUADS LIKE AUC.NOW IF URIBE COMMANDED AUC DEATH SQUADS AND US GOV FUNDED HIS GOV ,UNDER PLAN COLOMBIA,PLAN PATRIOTA,THEN ISNT AN FBI INVESTIGATION INTO JUST DRUMMOND AND CHIQUITA TIES TO AUC A FACADE?  SEE...PARAMILITARISM in COLOMBIA 1 URIBE BUSH AUC killers COLOMBIA Video http://vodpod.com/watch/1076916-paramilitarism-in-colombia-1-uribe-bush-auc-killers-colombia  La Macarena, the site of the grave, has been a very important site of U.S.-aided military operations since the mid-2000s. In this area, the U.S. government supported and advised the Colombian Army’s 2004-2006 “Plan Patriota” military offensive, http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/11/us-responsible-connecting-dots.html  A new study by Berkeley University finds that Colombian paramilitary bosses extradited to the U.S. are not encouraged to testify about human rights abuses they have committed, hindering Colombia's Justice and Peace process. The study urges the U.S. to establish better procedures and "break the cycle of impunity."Berkeley's International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) recommends in its "Truth behind bars" report, released today, that "efficient and effective" procedures be established to encourage the paramilitary leaders to reveal details of their crimes and accomplices. The study will be presented to members of U.S. Congress and officials from the State Justice Department next week.