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Latin
America:
US
Fumigation
Plane
Shot
Down
in
Colombia
10/7/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/406/shootdown.shtml
Leftist rebels in northeast
Colombia shot a drug fumigation plane out of the sky September 30, killing
the pilot, according to wire service reports. The downing occurred
near the town of Tarra, some 290 miles northeast of Bogota, Col. Henry
Gamboa, head of the Colombian Counter Narcotics Police eradication unit,
told reporters. The plane came under heavy gunfire as it was spraying
pesticides on coca fields. "There were several bullet holes in the
plane," Gamboa said.
Since 2000, the US government
has funded an aerial eradication program designed to destroy the country's
coca crop, from which cocaine is made. Much of that effort has been
outsourced to private mercenary companies. A spokesman for Dyncorp,
the company that holds a major eradication contract, said the plane was
owned by the State Department, but declined to say whether the dead pilot
was a Dyncorp employee.
Leftist rebels have shot
down fumigation planes in the past, killing several pilots. They
also continue to hold three US mercenaries who were captured when their
plane crash-landed near a rebel stronghold in 2003. In that incident,
a fourth American and a Colombian soldier aboard the plane were shot and
killed at the crash site.
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Issue #406
-- 10/7/05
Feature:
Prohibition
and
Terror
--
The
Afghan
Connection
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Feature:
Afghan
Opium
Farmers
Caught
in
the
Squeeze
|
Feature:
Afghan
Opium
Conundrum
--
What
to
do
with
Warlords,
Politicians
Involved
in
the
Drug
Trade?
|
Feature:
Questions
and
Answers,
Give
and
Take
--
Afghans
Take
on
the
Senlis
Council
and
Its
Licensing
Proposal
|
Editorial:
The
Consequences
of
Prohibition
(was
"What
is
It
About
Opium?")
|
Weekly:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Latin
America:
Bolivian
Coca
Leader
and
Presidential
Contender
Evo
Morales
Visits
European
Parliament
as
Elections
Thrown
Into
Doubt
|
Latin
America:
US
Fumigation
Plane
Shot
Down
in
Colombia
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