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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by DakarM
NPR this morning was saying the columbian army went after some high priority target in Ecuador (not venezuela) and that the US has shown "disapproval" but that was early reporting so who knows on the details.
the target was the 2nd man highest in the revolutionary group that has like 700 people held hostage, the guy was killed in Ecuador territory. so chavez closed his embassy in Columbia and put troops at the border saying "better not try that here"
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by lil_1_2002
the target was the 2nd man highest in the revolutionary group that has like 700 people held hostage, the guy was killed in Ecuador territory. so chavez closed his embassy in Columbia and put troops at the border saying "better not try that here"
CNN is reporting that chavez has given $300M to that terrorist group. Time to go after Chavez :chuckles: I keed.
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DakarM
CNN is reporting that chavez has given $300M to that terrorist group. Time to go after Chavez :chuckles: I keed.
yes i dont doubt that he calls the killing of that guy a terrorist act by Columbia :rofl:
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 02:51 PM
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colombia or columbia? :thinking:
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 05:09 PM
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Of course the US will jump in. Venezuela has oil.
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by sirg-vtec
Of course the US will jump in. Venezuela has oil.
Yes, but how much of our oil supply comes from Venezuela? :eh:
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 06:00 PM
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i think they are like the 4th largest us supplier... and exxon mobile recently just froze billions of dollars of chavez's money for i dunno why....
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 06:43 PM
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4th largest yes but not to the whole us. venezuelas 4th largest customer is exxon. but for exxon its about 5% or less so venezuela is not that big of a supplier of oil to us
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by lil_1_2002
i think they are like the 4th largest us supplier...
You learn something everyday i guess.
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 08:09 PM
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we used to black ops in columbia working to find cartels and then work US armed forces to take out the drug cartels. this is what happened 40 years ago. cant name my sources.
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