Colombia To Aid U.S. In Taliban Fight

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Source: CBS

Colombia To Aid U.S. In Taliban Fight
CBS Exclusive: Battle-tested Colombian Commandoes Headed to Afghanistan after Defeating Terrorists in their own Country


(CBS) U.S. forces are about to get some much-needed help as they fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, reports CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan in an exclusive report. The Colombian commandos are U.S. trained and battle-tested from having defeated terrorists in their own country.

Ten years ago, they didn't even exist. Today, elite Colombian Special Operations troops are preparing to fight alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan, reports CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan.

For Colombia, it's a way to give something back to the U.S., and the American Green Berets who've spent the last decade training them.

General Freddy Padilla de Leon, Colombia's top military man, chose an interview with Logan to make the surprise announcement his men would join the fight in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/27/eveningnews/main5192173.shtml

[mitchtv]

1. mmmm

speedballs on the market coming soon

[Brother Buzz]

4. LOL!

DUzy material! :thumbsup:

[Truth Talks]

2. Perfect timing!

What a perfect time for Colombia's U.S.-backed military to discover Venezuelan rocket launchers in the posession of the rebels they've just defeated! Wade through all the BS here.

[Vidar]

3. You sure called that right. Welcome to DU.

[Arctic Dave]

5. Is the US calling in a marker?

Take about your puff pieces.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. how many tons of colombian cocaine enter the USA yesterday?

this commandos must be good

[troubledamerican]

7. how many Colombians dead in mass graves, killed by their president's death squads?

[jasi2006]

8. One renegade nation supporting another renegade nation. nt

[Joanne98]

9. This is bull shit!

[Peace Patriot]

10. Oh, great, they can trade notes on how to create "false positives" by dressing up

the bodies of innocent teenage boys, lured by the promise of jobs and murdered by Colombia's "special forces," to look like FARC guerillas--in order to up their body count and impress U.S. Senators--and the U.S. military can teach the Colombia military and its death squads how you don't even need people to kill people--just bomb 'em with drones, and let the chips (of flesh) fall where they may.

Then they can all start killing South American leftists in Venezuela, Ecuador and any other place that has lots of oil--or, like Honduras, is a "stepping stone" to the oil.

This oughta be a collaboration for the history books!

[subsuelo]

11. "Battle-tested" hmm what's that mean?

Ruthless?

Willing to terrorize?

No qualms about murdering civilians?

[formercia]

12. It's a 'code word.'

They know how to dig mass graves.

"As one top U.S. official said: "The more Afghanistan can look like Colombia, the better." "

Yah, sure....