- Details behind the sudden decision to cancel President
Hugo Chavez Frias' next-week trip to Washington D.C. and New York (to deliver
a speech to the United Nations) are being revealed by security services
who say they have "overwhelming evidence" of a CIA-backed plan
to "bring down" the Chavez Frias' airplane during the scheduled
flight to the United States from Caracas. Sources in Venezuela's Military
Intelligence Directorate (DIM) have told VHeadline.com that "presented
with overwhelming evidence of Washington's planned attack on the Presidential
flight, it was decided that the President's personal security was preeminent
and that he should not go!"
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- State Security & Political (DISIP) police agents
were involved in a gun battle in Plaza Altamira Friday night as they moved
to detain a suspect now named as Jorge Rojas Riera, for the Friday morning
bombing at the Casa Militar barracks, across Avenida Urdaneta from the
Miraflores Presidential Palace. It is reported that President Hugo Chavez
Frias was working at his desk when the 1:00 a.m. blast went off but that
his life had never been put in danger as many gleeful wire-service reporters
had immediately cabled to their North American publishers.
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- Reports say that some 60 DISIP and National Guard (GN)
officers were able to take the suspect into custody but only after a skirmish
with opposition-controlled Chacao municipal police officers and gunmen
identified as former army officers who had been dismissed the service after
they participated in the April 11, 2002, coup d'etat. Police say Rojas
Riera was detained after officers were forced to use an electronic stun
gun to capture and 'cuff him. Little is known of the detainee other than
that he has been identified having been employed at Plaza Altamira as a
"security agent" by opposition organizers ... meanwhile he has
told interrogators that he acted independently in the Friday morning's
grenade attack.
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- Rebel army officer Felix Moreno was reportedly wounded
in an exchange of gunfire. Chacao Mayor Leopoldo Lopez says part of the
blame has to be laid on DISIP agents who did not identify themselves ...
he says they arrived to Plaza Altamira just before midnight and were heavily
armed but were not in uniform. "there was a lot of running-around
and another gun-battle close to Torre Britanica (south of Avenida Francisco
Miranda) in which a DISIP wagon was overturned.
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- Strong rumors are circulating today that the man arrested
had earlier sought political asylum at the Dominican Republic embassy in
Caracas but had been asked to return later.
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