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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 18:09:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Dennis Grammenos <dgrammen-AT-prairienet.org>
Subject: M-I: Ex-Israeli Officers charged in Colombian Death-Squad Case


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Subject: Ex-Israeli Officers charged in Colombian Death-Squad Case

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RCN -- RADIO CADENA NACIONAL -- COLOMBIA
Wednesday, 25 February 1998
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	Former Israeli Officers Charged With Aiding Paramilitaries
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According to judicial sources, a Human Rights Public Prosecutor decided
today to charge four former officers of the Israeli Army on counts of
"instruction and training of paramilitary terrorists."         

The measure, adopted after concluding the fact-finding stage of a case
that investigates the actions of paramilitary groups financed drug
traffickers, also affects Luis Alfredo Rubio Rojas, the former mayor of
the town of Puerto Boyaca, in the center of the country.

The former Israeli officers were identified as Yair Klein, Terry
Malynk, Izedalka Abraham and Ishak Shosny Merariot. 

A sixth person identified as Carlos Arturo Alvarez, alias "Trampas", was
also charged in the same case.

According to the charges, the foreign former-officers were contracted
towards 1988 by the narcotics trafficker Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, 
"El Mexicano", who died in December 1990 during a police raid. 

In 1989 the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) sent to tens of
countries of the world a request of interdiction against Klein, who was
being accused of being a mercenary in the service of "El Mexicano."

In August of that year a television program exposed aspects of  the
activities of Klein and other mercenarios in a training-camp for
paramilitaries in Magdalena Medio, in the heart of Colombia. 

The following month, a British mercenary confessed that he and
eleven compatriots had been contracted along with the Israelis
by Rodriguez Gacha to integrate the "Movement Death to Kidnappers"
(MAS), an extreme right-wing organization. 

According to the Colombian authorities of that time, the Israeli
and British mercenaries were contracted to organize "death squads" and
to assassinate to the leaders of the guerrilla group "Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia" (FARC), against whom Rodriguez Gacha had declared a 
"war without mercy."

According to information, the [leaders of MAS] "were rich people of Puerto
Boyaca", whose mayor of then, Luis Alfredo Rubio Rojas, also was affected
by the accusation. 

The case against the Israelis will continue and it will be possible to be
judged in absentia, said the judicial source. 

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