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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 03:41 PM Jul 2018

Uribe lashes out at UK spy agency in post-resignation Twitter rampage


by Mathew Di Salvo July 25, 2018

Colombia’s former president Alvaro Uribe accused British intelligence service MI6 of conspiring against him on Wednesday after he resigned from the Senate over an ongoing witness tampering investigation.

Uribe said on Twitter that wiretaps of him that would prove he influenced witnesses were “made by British agency MI5,” according to “various complaints.” He later corrected himself, saying it was actually MI6.

According to Uribe, the UK government’s foreign intelligence service is friends with outgoing president Juan Manuel Santos and that “foreign authorities are in a ploy” against him.

The claims were part of a barrage of tweets sent out by the ex-president after he resigned from the Senate on Tuesday in an apparent panic reaction to a Supreme Court decision to interrogate him about the alleged witness tampering.

Arguably the most powerful person in Colombia, Uribe — who served as president from 2002-2010 — is currently being investigated for intimidating witnesses in a case which ties him to paramilitary death squads.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/uribe-lashes-out-at-uk-spy-agency-in-post-resignation-twitter-rampage/
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Uribe lashes out at UK spy agency in post-resignation Twitter rampage (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2018 OP
seems those autocrats are always running afoul of the deep state, tsk, tsk. Thomas Hurt Jul 2018 #1
It IS sad! Don't know how they find the strength to go on. - sigh - n/t Judi Lynn Jul 2018 #3
Colombia ex-president alleges MI6 plot as death squad investigation closes in Judi Lynn Jul 2018 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Judi Lynn Jul 2018 #4

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
2. Colombia ex-president alleges MI6 plot as death squad investigation closes in
Wed Jul 25, 2018, 04:22 PM
Jul 2018

Conservative hardliner Álvaro Uribe has stepped down as a senator as he faces charges of bribing and intimidating witnesses
Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá
@joeparkdan
Wed 25 Jul 2018 15.45 EDT

Colombia’s powerful former president Álvaro Uribe has announced that he will resign from his senate seat in order to focus on battling a widening supreme court investigation into him.

Uribe, a hardliner who led a brutal campaign against leftist rebels from 2002 to 2010, has long dodged accusations of involvement in paramilitary massacres that occurred during and before his tenure.

He could, however, come unstuck in the face of new charges of bribing and intimidating witnesses related to those death squad cases.

On Wednesday, Uribe accused the British intelligence agency MI6 of colluding with his former defence minister and eventual successor as president, Juan Manuel Santos, to supply recordings that implicate him in crimes.

“There are repeated allegations that the recordings were made by the British agency MI6, friends of Juan Manuel Santos,” he tweeted. “Foreign authorities in a ruse against me.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/25/colombia-alvaro-uribe-mi6-death-squads-charges

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142118801

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