Analysis: Interpol confirms authenticity of seized Raúl Reyes’s laptops and hardware
Featured articlesBy equinoXio
Sunday 18 May 2008 22:36 COT
From left to right, general Óscar Naranjo, director of the Colombian National Police, Ronald Kenneth Noble, INTERPOL’s Secretary General, and María del Pilar Hurtado, director of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), on Bogotá, 15 May (Photo credit: teleSUR)
As we did on Wednesday with the extradition of 14 paramilitary chiefs to the United States, equinoXio presents two articles which analyse, from different points of view, the implications of the forensic report revealed by INTERPOL on Thursday, confirming the "authenticity" of three seized Toshiba laptops at a guerrilla camp on 1 March, after FARC’s second in command Luis Édgar Devia, aka Raúl Reyes, was killed by Colombian security forces in Ecuadorian soil. These laptops contain documents which allegedly link Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and other Colombian and foreign politicians with the guerilla group, considered "terrorist" by Colombian and American governments and the European Union.
From the centre-left:
Marsares, editor of equinoXio:
Uribe keeps squeezing Raúl Reyes
From the centre-right:
Jaime Restrepo, editor of Atrabilioso:
Raúl Reyes’s laptops belonged to Raúl Reyes
Tags: Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombia, Colombia's Attorney General's Office, Colombian National Police, Colombian politics, Ecuador, FARC, FARC-politics, guerrilla, Hugo Chávez, Interpol, Luis Édgar Devia, Raúl Reyes, Raúl Reyes laptops, Rafael Correa, Ronald Kenneth Noble, terrorism, Toshiba
wednesday 21 may 2008, 9:28 COT
What interpol doesn’t say:
Uribe’s most common names have been removed from the laptop, the list includes:
- mafioso
- chainsaw killer (motosierra)
- drugdealer (narcotraficante)
- the butcher of El Aro
- criminal
Reyes’ laptop for sure must have kept all the evidence of Uribe’s massacres when he was governor of Antioquia and many photographs of Uribe with the cartel.
The good news is that interpol now has all this evidence and it is keeping it for the moment they no longer need their killer or in case their killer fails to deliver on his promises and produce (snow).