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65-year-old war1ord cut an odd figure In his dark business suit white dress shirt and red striped tie And when It was time for Raman Isaza to address a session of the Colombian Congress last week the paramllltary supremo asked a lawmaker to deliver his prepared remarks But the significance of the occasion was In no way diminished Isaza who Is wanted for drug trafficking In Colombla and two felloW paramilitary leaders accused of murder In their native land had been allowed to YISlt the capital dty of Bogota on a 48-hour safe-conduct pass Issued by the government al President Alvaro Ur1be Only a week pr1or to their appearance-where they asked for Immunity from prosecution and extradlUon In exchange for pacifying their milltlas-a force of 50 U S -tralned anti-narcotics pollcemen had raided a cocaine lab allegedly belonging to Isaza and seized BSD kllos of the drug But that In no way dampened the enthusiasm of some pro-Uribe lawmakers ewer the paramilitary leaders' unpnsc edented vtstt This country Is bleedlng to death • said Congresswoman Eleanora Pineda What It wants rs peace • But at what price That's a questk n that some COiombians and not a few U S offldals are asking themselves as the Urtbe government completes 11 S second year In office Untll the falrty recent past the Colombian president had been recaMng rave reviews within the Bush administration as the exterminating angel of the Washington-financed war on drugs It wasn't always so ror years Uribe was dogged by accusations of llnlcs to dNg traffldalrs-1 charge he's denied In the pest-and his name surfac ed In a 1991 U S ml11tary-fntelllgenc e report about Colornbla'S notortou1 Medellln cartel attached But a record 140 suspected narc otk s trafflckers have been extradlb ld to the United States since Uribe was swam In as president and a massJve ur1Blfumlgatlon program destroyed 30 000 hectares of planted coca ftelds between 2002 and last year Last month Colombian polk 8 seized eight tons of cocaine with a U S street value of $160 minion-their biggest haul In slX years-and the endk atlon campaign also reduced opium-poppy adtlvatk n by 15 percent In 2003 Urlbe's decision to begin peace lalks with right-wing mllltla · however hal gone ewer badly wtth some U S officials Some or the groups' senior commanders have been Indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of drug trafflddng and last week's televised spectacle In Congress only seemed to make matters worse '1t'l a bit strange • said U S Ambassador to Colomblll Wffllam Wood that In CongN IIS where they write the laws approve the 1aws·anc1 defend the Jaws you would also flnd'thOlle who break the laws Bogota's pollcy of seeking a negotiated settlement with the paramlltary Self-Defense Forces of Colombia AUC comes as no surprise to longtime Uribe watchers Whan he wa governor of Anttoqula depattment In the mld-19905 right-wing mlltttas opeaated With virtual Impunity In rural areas and kllled dozens of trade unlonlStB and suspected sympathlZerS of Marxist guenilla mcMHnents Paramllltary d teftaln Sl1vatore ManaJSO publicly hailed Ur1be's vk tory In the 2002 presldenaal electlon and he was one of the three wartotds Invited to speak before Congress Mounttng evidence of the para-mllltary forces' Involvement In dNg trafflclclng has led U S offldalS to seek the extradition of Mancuso and four of his comrades In anns But that has not deterred Uribe fl'om ceding a zone of land to paramllltary fon es where they are Immune from extradition so long as they continue talking with his government ·A peace process Is worth the trouble If there Is an Intention to reform • Uribe said In a recent radlO Interview That must represent a eftlrtng of an activities connected to drug trafflcklng That may prove to be an lmposslble demand to fulfill In practice Uribe may talk tough on the subject of dn igs but he appears quite p epared to countenance some pretty shady characters If they are allled With the far right wing of Colombia's polltlcal spectrum Consider the case of Otego Fernando Murtllo allegedly a onetime leader of an assassins' gang In Medellin who's been accused of overseeing much of the cocaine trade In westem Colombia He was Indicted recently In New Yark on two counts of consplraq to traffic drugs and MurtUo's deep Involvement with Mancuso's r1ght-wlng militias IS spelled out by federal prosecutors The Indictment describes Murtllo as the de facto leader of the AUC and says he ·has maintained his power In the AUC In part from the prac eeds of his drugtrafflcking actMtles • Yet despite such an unsavory reputation Murtllo wu on hand ror the fonnal opening of peam lallrs between the paramllltary forms and the Uribe government ear11er this year The AUCs team d negotlatom Includes a former assoctate of convicted drug traMlclcer Alejandro Bernal named Ramiro Vanoy whose extradition Is being souoht by prosemtors In Ft Lauderdale Florida some of these people don't even have antlguerrltla credentlats • says Adam Isacson a Colombia mcpert at the Washington-based center ror Ime onal Polley They're Just drug trafflc kers who've t ought their way Into the paramlllblry movement as a way to dllm polltk af status legttlmlze their fortunes and wale free • -That gets to the heart of the growing u s concern about Urlbe's peace process Oemaa atle presidential nominee John Kerry tabs a dim view of Colombla's paramllltary rarces he was one of 23 U S senators who signed a letter ta Urtba dated July 26 urging tn t D pn sec ute any mtlltary or dvlllan offldals d hit government who mllabonltl ld with AUC unltS eut the Bush admlnlstratton must tread men carefully At a time of surging antl-Amerieanlsm the 52-year-old Urtbe stands out as one of Washington's rew staunch friends tn Latin Amel'tm He backed the U S Invasion of Iraq and he has pushed through new laws In the enerv sector to fadllt ate Investment by U S and other foreign oH corporations In exchange co ombla has preserved ltl prlvlleged status as the biggest recipient d U S fOtelgn aid outside the Mlddle EaSt ThlS II probably one of the most pro-American presidents In Latin Amertca's entire hlStory • says Isacson Among admlntstratlon offlclals and on CapltOI HUI you heir people compare him to WlnstDn Churchill and Abraham Unmln • That may be a stretch but mllllons of Colombians seem ta feel the same way about their president They elected Uribe on a promise to aac k down on the country s Marxist guentlla armies and his tough law-and-order polldes have driven down homicide and kidnapping rates during the last two years All available evidence points to Ur1be's remaining In the presldentlel palace for some time his anrent term ends In 2006 and with hlS appravaf ratings hovering abow 70 pen ent he stands a good chance of pushing through a constitutional amendment later this year that would allow him to seek reelectlon to a second four-year term For better or worse Alvaro Uribe wlll be Washlngton•s go-to man In Bogota for the roreseeable ft lture whether or not he a tts a peace deel with alleged drug traffickers whom U S offldals would rather put behind bars C 20H Newsweet Inc A Harsh Light On Associate 82 A declasslflecl Pentagon report dalm• Uribe once worked for Pablo Escobar 11J JoMpll CGlllreru Newslr 11111 IntwnltlOnal Aug 9 lslUe - In September 1991 the U S Department eerer compiled a 11st of tndlvtduals belteved to be assodated with COiombia's notartaus Medellln drug cartll There are 106 names an the newly dedasslfled Intelligence doa ment and they read Ilka a who's who of thugs assassins midlevel traffickers and crooked attomeys The cartel's ruthless kingpin Pablo Escobar was prominent on the l Str ol course along with the former Panamanian dictator Gen Minuel Antonio Noriega But the reel held turner II Item No 82 which reads • follows ·Alvero Uribe Velez-a Coklmbtan polltlc lan and senator dedicated to c ollaboratlon with the Medellin cartel at h h government levels Urtbe was llnlced to a business Involved In narcotlcS activities In the U S Uribe has worked for the Medellln cartel and Is II dose personal 1encl of Pablo Escobar Gavlrhl 11 The Pentagon report pgrtrays Uribe In a llght sharply at vatance with hts aanent Image as Washington's main ally In the u S -ftnanced war on drugs In South Amertca But In those days he was among dozens of COkmblan pols who openly opposed the extradition of their dn g-trafflddng countrymen Urtbe has since changed hlS vtews-and In fact his government has sent sc oru of drug traffickers to the Unfted States ror prosecution since he took office The report was obtained by the National Sealrtty Archive a Washington-based nongovernmental research group The Identity of the doaJment's author was removed by Pentagon censors The detailed thumbnaJI descriptions of the Medallln cartel's associates suggest that the date came from Colombian or u s aiunter-narcottcs offldals and the text states at the beginning that the report forwards profiles on the more Important nara -terrorlstS contracted by the Colombian narcotic c artals • It Is stamped CONFJOENnAL NOFORN WNINTEL meaning that Its contents shouldn't be shared with fOrelgn nationals The u s ambassador to Colambla In 1991 Monts Busby does not recall the document and efforts to reach the U S Defense lntelllgenm Agency Ballan officer In Bogota In 1991 retired Army COi James s Roche Jr failed t o elldt a l'l llpOl1N In a two-page wrttten statement the office of the Colombian pn Sklent denied that Uribe had hnb of any lctncl to a bullnes In the United SbJtei • asserted In the 1991 rapart But the statement did not address the allegatfons that Uribe had worked for the Medellin cartel and w• a dose ft1end of EScobar who was lcllled tn a 1993 02004 nc poitce raid This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu