Truemors
Chavez and Mugabe.
The files on the laptop of a slain terrorist are revealing startling details of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's support for FARC, cocaine traffickers, and terrorists. The data recovered includes details of bombing attacks and hidden uranium.
Chavez has repeatedly denied any links to, contacts with, or support for FARC or terrorists. But the information on Raul Reyes' laptop says something different.
A spectacular find may prove what many have long suspected. E-mails and other files found on a FARC laptop in the jungles of Ecuador show that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have close relations with the terror group.
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When police stormed a house near San José, the capital of Costa Rica, they knew exactly what they were looking for. Immediately, the officers headed for a backroom where they found an old safe packed with bundles of dollars -- wrapped like cocaine in plastic.
Many of the bills were stuck together; some were already so rotten that they could hardly be counted. But the police knew the sum anyway: $480,000 (€305,000). The cash had been mentioned by Raul Reyes -- the number-two man in the Colombian Marxist guerrilla organization known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) -- in an e-mail to Rodrigo Granda, known as the "chancellor" of the rebel group.
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30 Kilos of Uranium
Interpol specialists are currently analyzing the recovered data.Some of the information has been encrypted, but most of the files areeasily accessible. Reyes felt safe in his camp, less than twokilometers (1.25 miles) from the Colombian border. In roughly twoweeks, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble plans to announce theresults of the investigation. But one thing is already clear: thelaptops contain a political bombshell. They hold detailed informationon FARC's relations outside of Colombia, the group' finances, theirsmuggling routes and records for cocaine deliveries. There are alsodetails of bomb attacks carried out be the group.
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