FARC's 'Human Rights' Friends

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... one detail stands out: undercover special forces simply told FARC that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious NGO to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission. ... it seems to have been a walk in the park to get them to believe that a 'humanitarian' NGO was providing resources to help it ferry hostages to a new location...[snip]

I am reminded of President Álvaro Uribe's 2003 statement that some "human rights" organizations in his country were fronts for terrorists. Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd got his back up over Mr. Uribe's statement, and piously lectured the Colombian president about "the importance of democratic values."

But as the helicopter story suggests, Mr. Uribe seems to have been right. How else to explain the fact that the FARC swallowed the line without batting an eye?

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