Lone Wolf
10-21-2009, 03:50 AM
INCIDENT REPORT: COLOMBIA - ARMED CONFLICT
LINE 1 - TIME OF REPORT: 1420 GMT 20 OCTOBER 2009
LINE 2 - UNIT / ORGANIZATION: FARC / Colombian Military
LINE 3 - TYPE OF INCIDENT: Armed Conflict
LINE 4 - TIME OF INCIDENT: 20 October 2009
LINE 5 -LOCATION: Cauca province, Colombia
LINE 6 - CASUALTIES: At least 16 dead, unknown injured.
LINE 7 - INFORMATION: Government troops killed at least 16 leftist FARC rebels in a month-long series of clashes in southwestern Colombia, while 40 guerrillas were captured Monday in the northern part of the country.
LINE 8 - ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS: Communications intercepts allowed troops to kill "between 16 and 20" fighters attached to the 6th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the source said.
The operation against the 6th Front was carried out by a force of 1,200 ground troops with air support. FARC guerrillas have specialized personnel to collect the dead during battles in order to prevent the army from recovering, counting and identifying them. As such, obtaining accurate information regarding casualties is difficult.
LINE 9 - ASSESSMENT: The FARC's 6th Front is said to be under the command of Miguel Angel Pascuas, a co-founder of the rebel group along with the late Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda.
Founded in 1964, the FARC has an estimated 9,000 fighters and operates across a large swath of this Andean nation.
President Alvaro Uribe' administration has made fighting the FARC a top priority and obtained billions in U.S. aid for counterinsurgency operations.
President Alvaro Uribe has weakened the FARC since he took office in 2002, but the left-wing rebel movement is still active in large areas of rural Colombia.
The Marxist FARC rebels have been waging a 44-year-long guerrilla war against the Colombian government, and is thought to have safe havens in both Venezuela and Ecuador.
Both Ecuador's Correa and Venezuela's Chavez are thought to support FARC materially as well.
LINE 1 - TIME OF REPORT: 1420 GMT 20 OCTOBER 2009
LINE 2 - UNIT / ORGANIZATION: FARC / Colombian Military
LINE 3 - TYPE OF INCIDENT: Armed Conflict
LINE 4 - TIME OF INCIDENT: 20 October 2009
LINE 5 -LOCATION: Cauca province, Colombia
LINE 6 - CASUALTIES: At least 16 dead, unknown injured.
LINE 7 - INFORMATION: Government troops killed at least 16 leftist FARC rebels in a month-long series of clashes in southwestern Colombia, while 40 guerrillas were captured Monday in the northern part of the country.
LINE 8 - ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS: Communications intercepts allowed troops to kill "between 16 and 20" fighters attached to the 6th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the source said.
The operation against the 6th Front was carried out by a force of 1,200 ground troops with air support. FARC guerrillas have specialized personnel to collect the dead during battles in order to prevent the army from recovering, counting and identifying them. As such, obtaining accurate information regarding casualties is difficult.
LINE 9 - ASSESSMENT: The FARC's 6th Front is said to be under the command of Miguel Angel Pascuas, a co-founder of the rebel group along with the late Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda.
Founded in 1964, the FARC has an estimated 9,000 fighters and operates across a large swath of this Andean nation.
President Alvaro Uribe' administration has made fighting the FARC a top priority and obtained billions in U.S. aid for counterinsurgency operations.
President Alvaro Uribe has weakened the FARC since he took office in 2002, but the left-wing rebel movement is still active in large areas of rural Colombia.
The Marxist FARC rebels have been waging a 44-year-long guerrilla war against the Colombian government, and is thought to have safe havens in both Venezuela and Ecuador.
Both Ecuador's Correa and Venezuela's Chavez are thought to support FARC materially as well.