Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:42:15 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: AUC & Taliban: U.S. Policy Backfires
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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:33:52 -0500
From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <narconews@hotmail.com>
Subject: AUC & Taliban: U.S. Policy Backfires


September 16, 2001
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleagues,

Journalist Kim Alphandry, who has traveled and studied extensively in
Pakistan, Turkey, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, has just filed this report,
special to The Narco News Bulletin:

AUC and TALIBAN:

U.S. Policy Backfires from Colombia to Afghanistan

http://www.narconews.com/

Excerpt:

"The Taliban, thus, began as a U.S.-backed paramilitary organization, using
the same strategy as was used in Colombia with the formation of the United
Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). As in South America, the explosive
mixture of paramilitary groups and the massive profits to be made in
narco-trafficking under drug prohibition has grown into a force beyond
control of its makers. Even as the U.S. government today opposes the Taliban
in Afghanistan, it is creating another one in Colombia."

from somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@hotmail.com

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