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Judi Lynn

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Wed Sep 10, 2014, 01:35 AM Sep 2014

Chile steps up security after bomb hurts 14

Source: Associated Press

Chile steps up security after bomb hurts 14
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press | September 9, 2014 | Updated: September 9, 2014 10:39pm

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's president increased security measures and expanded powers to investigate on Tuesday, a day after a bomb injured 14 people in the capital in the worst attack of its kind in the country since democracy returned in 1990.

Officials said they were looking into whether anarchist groups believed responsible for a wave of bombings in Santiago were behind Monday's attack at a fast-food restaurant next to a busy subway station.

"Those who carry out these acts think they will frighten us, but we're not going to let a small group of terrorists and cowards scare the vast majority who want a peaceful country," President Michelle Bachelet said after she led a high-level security meeting.

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The latest blast occurred just ahead of the 41st anniversary of the Chilean military coup that ousted socialist President Salvador Allende and began the bloody 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Chileans remain divided over Pinochet's rule, and protests at the coup's anniversary often turn violent.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Chile-steps-up-security-after-bomb-hurts-14-5743905.php



CIA Admits Involvement in Chile
W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 20
By David Briscoe

The CIA is acknowledging for the first time the extent of its deep involvement in Chile, where it dealt with coup-plotters, false propagandists and assassins.

The agency planned to post a declassified report required by Congress on its Web site today that admits CIA support for the 1970 kidnapping of Chile’s top general for refusing to use the Army to prevent the country’s congress from confirming the election of socialist Salvador Allende as president. The kidnapping failed, but Gen. Rene Schneider was shot and died two days later, the day Allende’s election was confirmed.

The CIA admits prior knowledge of the plot that overthrew Allende three years later but denies direct involvement. The report says the agency had no idea that Allende would refuse safe passage with his palace under bombardment and apparently kill himself. He was found dead of gunshot wounds.

There is no evidence the CIA wanted Schneider killed for refusing to join the coup attempt in 1970, the report said, although the agency later paid $35,000 to the group that botched his capture.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82588
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The Second Article - From ABC . . FairWinds Sep 2014 #1
 

FairWinds

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1. The Second Article - From ABC . .
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 11:08 AM
Sep 2014

is way out of date, from during the Clinton administration.
It is also a pack of lies, as is most phony corporate "news"
from ABC and the CIA.
It's also interesting how Americans refuse to acknowledge
the existence of the "other 9/11".
There is some major cognitive dissonance going on there,
which only furthers our ideology of victimization.

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