Gontard accuses the colombian government.

pobrecito says on Feb 7, 2009, 14:12:

http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=500000&channel=#bcid=647100;...

No mas Tasco66 !

0 funny, 0 helpful.

tasco66 says on Feb 7, 2009, 14:46:

Gontard is a well known farc apologist. This has been discussed extensively in the past:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-2005091482150320%3Aah1az4-ixb...

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

0 funny, 1 helpful.

tasco66 says on Feb 7, 2009, 14:50:

The Swiss media reports have been shown to be false in the past:

Ingrid and Colombian officials dismiss Swiss media report as false and lies

The Colombian Foreign Ministry furiously denied the allegations, with a spokesman calling them "completely false." He added: "They are lies".

General Freddy Padilla, head of the Colombian military, categorically denied they had paid "a single peso" to Farc.

"As the General Commander of the Armed Forces and on my military honour, I deny that the Colombian Government has paid a single peso, a single cent," he said.

Ms Betancourt also cast doubt on the claims. "Based on what I was able to see in this rescue operation, because of the intensity, I don't think they could have fooled me," she said. "I don't think that anyone was acting. The situation was too intense."

The French Foreign Ministry denied any involvement in any deal and there was no sign that the Swiss report would sour the celebrations planned by Mr Sarkozy both at the airbase and later at the Elysee Palace.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4270844.ece

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

0 funny, 0 helpful.

billyb says on Feb 7, 2009, 14:52:

Wasn't that clown gontard a bagman for the FARC?

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

0 funny, 1 helpful.

tannedincali (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 7, 2009, 15:24:

pobrecito says on Feb 7, 2009, 23:40:

Always the same song sung by the Uribe slaves : friends of peace are friends of FARC.

They did not even see the reportage of the TSR swiss TV who shows that (one more time) the colombian government lied about Gontard :

http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=500000&channel=#bcid=647100;...

Sorry TSR is in French.

Now, little slaves, go to see you your master Uribe to get your reward.

No mas Tasco66 !

0 funny, 0 helpful.

tasco66 says on Feb 8, 2009, 07:10:

Pobre you are the one that was saying that Uribe was lying about Emmanuel

Pobre you are the one that posted the false story from the Swiss media about the ransom.

Don’t you ever get tired of being wrong all the time

Now go back to play with Gontard and your Farc buddies...

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

0 funny, 1 helpful.

tasco66 says on Feb 8, 2009, 08:01:

Here is Pobre's new hero, Mr. Gontard a well known Farc apologist:

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

0 funny, 1 helpful.

pobrecito says on Feb 8, 2009, 12:00:

We can see photos of colombian officials, even the President of this time, making an abrazo with Tirofijo. So Pastrana was a FARC apologist, one FARC buddie etc.

Tasco66, when will you write something intelligent ? Never.
As usually you do not look at the proofs, you don't think, you do not answer the post.

You are a mix between what is worst in USA and worst in Colombia.

No mas Tasco66 !

0 funny, 0 helpful.

JGD (☼Travelguide writer) says on Feb 8, 2009, 12:18:

pobrecito says on Feb 8, 2009, 13:17:

You have no argument except insults.

No mas Tasco66 !

0 funny, 0 helpful.

pobrecito says on Feb 8, 2009, 13:27:

http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=500000&bcid=599499#vid=93013...

No mas Tasco66 !

0 funny, 0 helpful.

pobrecito says on Feb 8, 2009, 13:35:

In english :

February 4, 2009 - 8:22 PM

TV programme refutes Colombia ransom claim

A Swiss mediator accused by the Colombian government of paying money to a rebel movement merely opened up channels of communication, new evidence shows.

Jean-Pierre Gontard was mandated by the foreign ministry in 2001 to act as an intermediary between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the Basel pharmaceutical company Novartis, to achieve the release of two Novartis employees kidnapped by the guerrilla group.

An investigation by French-language television to be broadcast on Thursday found documentary evidence that Novartis had indeed subsequently paid a ransom of 2.5 million dollars in 2001.

The programme says the Colombian authorities were aware of the deal, and that the second in command of the country's police service was present at the release of the two men who had been seized the previous year.

Gontard admits making a "great mistake" in asking the guerrillas not to mention the name of Novartis in any correspondence. Instead they referred to it as "Gontard's money".

Novartis has not commented on the report "for legal reasons", the producer told an advance media showing of the film.

In July 2008 Colombia announced that it had found on the computer of a top Farc leader indications that Gontard had transported $500,000 for the rebels, an accusation which Gontard and the Swiss foreign ministry strenuously denied.

The television programme suggests that the Colombian government made the accusations in an attempt to discredit all mediators, both local and foreign, and to attack "European interference" in its dealings with the Farc.

Colombia later ended all Swiss mediation efforts with hostage takers.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/TV_programme_refutes_Colombia_...

No mas Tasco66 !

0 funny, 0 helpful.