ingrid betancourt rescue is propagandist bullshit

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BIG SURPRISE!

I wonder how ever in the heck on earth in the whole wide world that much cash could have reached the rebels undetected by authorities? Will wonders never cease? What timing!

It wouldn't be the first time Republicans played with the outcome of a hostage crisis for political gain:

It was clear that Khomeini was keeping the hostages to sell them to the highest bidder. Bush and Casey were not reticent about putting their own offer on the table.

Shortly after the GOP convention, Casey appears to have traveled to Europe for a meeting in Madrid in late July with Mehdi Karrubi, a leading Khomeini supporter, now the speaker of the Iranan Parliament. Jamshid Hashemi said that he and his late brother Cyrus were present at this meeting and at another one in Madrid during August which they say Casey also attended. The present government of Iran has declined to confirm, or deny this contact, saying that "the Islamic Government of Iran sees no benefit to involve itself in the matter."

Casey's whereabouts are officially unknown between July 26-27 and July 30. What is known is that as soon as Casey surfaced again in Washington on July 30, he reported back to vice presidential candidate George Bush in a dinner meeting held at the Alibi Club. It is certain from the evidence that there were negotiations with the Mullahs by the Reagan-Bush camp, and that Bush was heavily involved at every stage.

Well, and it looks like my new friend, nolocontendere already did some of the more work on this I was getting around to. [In my own dazed and confused way... my soul having been created below... out of ergocalciferol and it's flipping showing! Did manage to clean up nutopian today though....]

Digging, digging: Now we know how the Swiss would know....

NORWAY!

Oooooo, it really is starting to get away from them! As of about 9pm Pacific Time the AP even had to squeeze it in down at the bottom of a piece on the brilliant sting-job/rescue... pfeh. Doze lyin' Swiss! Cain't never trest der asses....

Fidel gets in his licks. I recommend you read his whole piece on the subject. It comes at the very bottom of today's "Reflections of Fidel" in Granma. I think it's particularly edifying to see him urging for truth in the media within this discussion.