The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.
Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
Colombia Soldiers Killing Civilians For Insurgent Quotas. (And how this relates to John McCain)
This is John McCain's great American ally Columbia. Remember how he taunted Barack Obama at one of the debates because Obama wanted guarantees that the Columbian government would crack down on the killings of labor leaders before he would vote to release billions of dollars to the South American nation?
John McCain came back with implications that Obama was a dumb school kid for having such concerns. (The right is still pissed that they can't shoot labor leaders here.)
Well, it turns out that another practice common in Columbia is hiring unemployed, or barely employed people, taking them to a war zone, killing them and then collecting bonuses and perks for killing 'insurgents'.
A variation on that is killing farmers in the restless areas and planting 'evidence' of anti-government activity on them.
Excerpt (registration requirement free) IHT report "Colombia killings cast doubt on war against insurgents":
On Wednesday, President Álvaro Uribe's government announced that it had fired 25 officers and soldiers - including three generals and four colonels - in connection with the deaths of Oviedo and 10 other young men from Soacha, whose bodies were discovered in unmarked graves in a distant combat zone. The purge came after an initial shakeup last Friday, when the army command relieved three colonels.
At a news conference Wednesday, Uribe said that an internal military investigation appeared to have uncovered "crimes that in some regions had the goal of killing innocents, to make it seem as if criminals were being confronted."
The wave of killings has heightened focus on the U.S. Embassy here, which is responsible for vetting Colombian military units for human rights abuses before they can receive aid. A study of civilian killings by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and Amnesty International, two rights groups, found that 47 percent of the cases reported in 2007 involved Colombian units financed by the United States.
More at source.
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