http://www.borev.net/2008/05/thats_so_alvaro_2.html

I guess their extradition was reallllly important to Uribe

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hM4rv8Dux6KYb9_tv6ZtHiwlHvjQD90KS8K81

Colombia extradites 14 jailed warlords to US
By FRANK BAJAK – 18 hours ago

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia extradited 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States on Tuesday on charges related to drug trafficking, saying they violated the peace pact under which they demobilized.

Those extradited in the surprise pre-dawn operation were among the top leaders of Colombia's illegal right-wing militias — including Salvatore Mancuso, who has commanded their umbrella group, Interior Minister Carlos Holguin said.

Colombian prosecutors blame the warlords for some of their nation's worst atrocities and they were extradited because "they were committing crimes and reorganizing criminal structures" from prison, Holguin told Caracol radio.

But it appears that the United States will not prosecute them for any human rights violations, although U.S. Drug Czar John Walters told the Associated Press that some of the drug charges involve violent acts.

Under a 2003 peace pact, the militia leaders were supposed to confess to all their crimes, surrender ill-gotten riches and halt illegal activities in exchange for reduced jail terms and protection from extradition.

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for his favorite right-wing shill among the darkies down South, eh? This is so typical and so unacceptable. The US government proves, every day, just what a fascist, anti-human nation we are. Wherever there is an opportunity to do wrong, to foment evil, to harm the common people the US will elbow its way to the front in order to get to work! We are ruled by evil men...