- Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence
the CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United
Nations in New York
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- 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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- <http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=11205>http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=11205
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- Arrogant U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Charles S. Shapiro
says its not a crime to kill a President...
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- Vheadline,com, 09/28/03
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- In an Associated Press (AP) dispatch the United States
government has said it will open up an investigation into allegations made
by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias relative to conspiracy to assassinate
him. Chavez Frias has said that "terrorist groups" in southern
Florida have allied with Miami-based anti-Castro radicals.
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- Amazingly US Ambassador to Venezuela, Charles S. Shapiro
says "it is not necessarily a crime ... but we are in the full process
of collecting information and we must follow all legal procedures ... if
there is anyone to blame, our government knows what to do!"
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- With typical Washington cover-up rhetoric, Shapiro shakily
admits that he has received information that "some Venezuelans have
been receiving military training in the United States." He further
admits that the information was also published in a Miami newspaper a year
ago ... but remains remarkably silent as to why no action was taken by
proper authorities Stateside. "We're not going to take action against
anybody ... we haven't been able to make any headway!"
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- President Chavez Frias was forced to cancel his scheduled
trip to the United Nations in New York on September 24 after intelligence
agencies revealed a CIA-backed plot against the President's plane en route
to the General Assembly. Chavez asked the United States to investigate
his allegations, at the same time reiterating earlier requests that President
George W. Bush should stop interfering in Venezuela's affairs.
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- "They are conspiring against Venezuela in the United
States," Chavez Frias said in a national television broadcast ...
"the peoples of this continent need to know that their (USA) terrorists
are preparing an attack against Venezuela!"
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- http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/1647313.php
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