Sun, Sep 26, 2004
Hugo Chavez's security services claim "overwhelming evidence"
of CIA-planned assassination
The Venezuelan media is reporting that President Hugo Chavez's
sudden decision to cancel a planned trip to Washington (DC) and New
York, where he was to deliver a speech to the United Nations, was
caused by the discovery of "overwhelming evidence" the US
government was planning to shoot down his aircraft enroute.
The Venezuelan security service, known by its Spanish-language
acronym "DIM" (Military Intelligence Directorate) is claiming that
they have evidence that the CIA was tasked with the assassination
and that the plan was in place to shoot the presidential aircraft
down sometime during the flight from Caracas to the United
States.
Sources inside DIM 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!"
The startling accusations follow a very violent weekend in which
the Casa Militar barracks, which is located across the avenue from
the Miraflores Presidential Palace, was attacked with grenades. The
explosions took place around 0100, and President Chavez was
reported to be working at his desk at the time, but was unhurt.
In addition, some 60 military and police were involved in a gun
battle with a person suspected of being involved in the attack. The
suspect, identified by his last names, Rojas Rivera, was eventually
detained and placed in custody, but not after exchanging gunfire
along with other persons identified by local authorities as "former
army officers" who had allegedly been dismissed from military
service for being involved in the failed 2002 coup against
Chavez.
FMI: www.venezuela.gov.ve (Spanish
language government web site)
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