Venezuelan pipeline bombed with C4 - did they check for taggants ?

dusmcj

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:26 PM
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Venezuelan pipeline bombed with C4 - did they check for taggants ?

Edited on Mon Dec-05-05 06:27 PM by dusmcj

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- An explosion that damaged an oil pipeline supplying Venezuela's largest refinery was caused by government foes attempting to disrupt congressional elections, officials said.

We hafta ask: they found C4 traces, did they check for taggants ? We _really_ wouldn't want to find out that it came from US government stocks. Something about advisors operating in the area, something like that... Dogs being wagged, trouble "handling" one problem so go create another... Nahh, couldn't happen.

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radio4progressives

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:27 PM
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1. nahhh.... nothin' like that... n/t

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ck4829

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:28 PM
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2. The Anti-Chavez Squads are terrorists

I read Venezuelan reports.

There is some stuff that the 'liberal' media won't report on.

They remind me of the Death Squads in the decades past.

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dusmcj

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:10 PM
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11. same players, same plan, see El Salvador, Nicaragua under the Gipper

John "316" Negroponte is the DNI.
Eliot Abrams is plying his wares at State as an advisor on near eastern affairs.
All the old Iran-Contra lackeys have been pardoned and reestablished.

10 years of experience running counterinsurgency all over Central America. Perfectly positioned to take care of anyone in the Middle East, or south of the Rio Grande.

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Just Me

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:31 PM
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3. Oh,...I would be extremely surprised if that were true.

N-O-T!!!!

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benburch

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:33 PM
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4. CIA munitions have no taggants.

Or they have the taggants that they WANT FOUND.

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Canuckistanian

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:33 PM
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5. I thought taggants were turned down

Didn't the bill to mandate them get shut down?

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O.M.B.inOhio

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:47 PM
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6. I don't KNOW it was th U.S., but ...

if you were in a position to inform on organized crime and your house burns down mysteriously, you'd take that as a threat. If you're the most vocal critic of a bully state in the hemisphere and your most valuable resource is attacked, what are you to think? I wonder how Chavez is reacting.

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dusmcj

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:01 PM
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8. something about a horse rode in on

seems appropriate

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Pavulon

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Mon Dec-05-05 06:49 PM
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7. Tinfoil

As the 3rd largest supplier of oil to the US Venezuela directly benefits in cash by temporarily interrupting the supply of oil.

The market reaction to this will be more expensive gas for the US.

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dusmcj

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:02 PM
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9. are you sure you're not a member of PNAC ?

you think like them

just kidding ;)

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Pavulon

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Mon Dec-05-05 07:04 PM
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10. You must understand the enemy...

Seriously I'm just bullshitting around like everyone else.

To early for real news on this so I am speculating, wildly.

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