'FARC asked Gaddafi for $100 million to buy missiles'

[Bacchus39]

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/15045-farc-requested-100-million-from-gaddafi-to-buy-missiles.html

'FARC asked Gaddafi for $100 million to buy missiles' Monday, 21 March 2011 16:11 Tom Heyden


The FARC appear to have asked the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi for a $100 million loan in order to buy missiles, while also corresponding with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega over the coordination of Libyan support in the region.

The Europa Press Agency published a report Monday, sourcing information from the seized computers of slain FARC commander "Raul Reyes," who was killed by the Colombian army in Ecuador on March 1, 2008.

A letter from the FARC addressed to "Comrade Colonel Muammar Gaddafi," dated September 4, 2000, reportedly thanked the Libyan leader for his treatment of FARC leaders in his country, while simultaneously requesting a five-year loan of $100 million to buy surface-to-air missiles.

Although it is unknown whether either money or weapons were ever actually delivered, the news agency reports that there was another letter found on the computer that was destined to be delivered "by hand" to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

[joshcryer]

1. The ties between FARC and a certain someone are leaking out there...