US asks Colombia to extradite paramilitary warlord

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US asks Colombia to extradite paramilitary warlord
Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:58pm EDT

BOGOTA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have asked
Colombia to extradite a paramilitary chief wanted on drug
charges after the government said he violated a peace
deal with President Alvaro Uribe, the foreign ministry
said on Thursday.

Carlos Mario Jimenez, known as Macaco, was the first
outlawed militia commander to lose benefits offered for
disarming and ending illegal activities after years of
atrocities committed in the name of fighting left-wing
guerrillas.

Colombian authorities in August said Jimenez would face
extradition after charging the paramilitary chief had kept
on organizing drug trafficking from his jail cell in breach
of the accord that had offered short sentences for
surrender.

"The formal request was received from the U.S. embassy
for the extradition of Carlos Mario Jimenez," the foreign
ministry said in a statement.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/americasCrisis/idUSN25250014

[Judi Lynn]

1. You know they're getting desperate when they start throwing their own death squad leaders under the

bus! Good lord. What is the world coming to?

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"Macaco"
Where would that government BE without the death squads, after all!

Take this article on another former death squad leader, who has "confessed" and is serving a bit of time. Look how he's "doing time" in a Colombian prison:

He is being held in the maximum-security Itagui prison, outside Colombia's second city of Medellin, with some 50 militia bosses. Like many, he has an Internet-connected computer, cell phone, shared personal chef and extended visiting hours. Songbirds chirp outside.
Mancuso keeps busy running his own Web site, recently joined the Facebook online social-networking community and says he is writing a history of Colombia's recent conflict.
He is neither repentant nor apologetic about the blood shed in «the war we had to fight,» and complains of being demonized and marginalized by the very elites for whom he served as hatchetman. People he once served now deny knowing him, he said.
«Why don't they come out and admit it? Because they're afraid,» he said. «Afraid of what? That they'll be tried and thrown in jail.
(snip)

http://www.pr-inside.com/ap-interview-rise-and-fall-of-r267475.htm



death squad leader, "paramilitary" Salvatore Mancuso