High-Seas Shootout SMN vs. FARC
High-Seas Shootout SMN vs. FARC
Friday, February 22 2008 at 07:05 PM EST
Contributed by: Don Winner
http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20080222190501187
By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com
Reports are sketchy and details are still coming in, but apparently there was some kind of a shootout on the high seas this afternoon in Panamanian national waters near the Darien. Apparently an unknown number of Colombian men flagged down a Panamanian patrol boat and were saying that their boat was disabled. When the Panamanian vessel approached, the Colombians opened fire, apparently intending to take control of the Panamanian patrol vessel. There was a gunfight which the Panamanian Servicio Maritimo Nacional (SMN) officers basically won. A search of the Colombian vessel indicates the men on board were probably part of the rebel FARC organization. The dead and wounded are being flown back to Panama City right now. More details will be coming later.
Copyright 2008 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.
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Panama, Saturday 23 2008
DARIÉN.
Clash at Sea
JOSE OTERO
RAFAEL PEREZ G.
Panorama at prensa.com
A group of suspected Colombian irregular yesterday starred in a clash with members of the Police in an area of sea adjacent to the town of Jaqué, in Darien.
The hostility was confirmed last night by the police through a press release in which it was reported also that four people were wounded, including three Colombian nationals and one Panamanian police.
Police arrested six illegal Colombians, who were transferred last night to the capital city. The group was seized weapons and communications equipment.
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Facts unclear in Jaqué
The shooting wounded three suspected guerrillas and a police officer.
The area where the incident happened was reinforced with 200 members of the police from the capital.
THE PRESS / IVAN URIBE
JOSE OTERO
RAFAEL PEREZ
Panorama at prensa.com
The facts are confusing. While the National Police (PN) reported that the clash with suspected Colombian irregular occurred on the high seas, other sources have indicated that the fighting had spread to the mainland, near the border towns of Bay Pineapple and Jaqué, in Darien.
The communiqué from the National Police said that the facts were raised after several subjects Colombian nationals, who were on board a boat, requested a "false help," claiming that the engine they had been damaged.
Upon arriving police, the press release added, checked the situation and confirmed that the alleged irregular wanted to steal the boat, which began a confrontation.
This shooting a member of the police was wounded by a bullet fired with an Ak-47 rifle to rozó his face, so he had to receive the support of a border patrol that was nearby.
Similarly, the National Police announced that three Colombians were wounded, and was the capture of three others during the confrontation.
URGENT. The wounded were transferred
to hospital, under heavy security measures
The police officer was transferred to the National Hospital and the three Colombians, who were also injured, including one in serious condition, were taken to St. Thomas Hospital. Both centres in the capital were guarded by a strong police operation.
However, other research sources reported that the facts came when a column of about 30 suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who was on a trail located between the towns of Bay Pineapple and Jaqué, spotted a PN damaged the boat into the sea and tried to grab her, shooting their occupants from the ground and generating the fray.
It was known that last night, a group of 200 police officers was sent to the scene to reinforce the area and to pursue the group of suspected guerrillas who hid in the jungle.
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La Prensa
Panamá
24 February 2008
ATTACK IN BORDER REGION OF DARIÉN. COLOMBIAN SIX ARE DETAINEES.
It was the FARC
Three of the Colombian insurgents wounded in combat and were transferred to the capital.Ayer the authorities strengthened security in the area Jaqué.
RAFAEL PEREZ G.
MARIANELA A. FERRER
Panorama at prensa.com
The group of insurgents who starred in a clash with members of the Panamanian police last Friday in an area of the sea adjacent to the border community of Jaqué, Darien, 57 belongs to the Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The information was confirmed at the end of yesterday afternoon, Saturday, by the National Government through a press release.
After the scuffle, the Panamanian Police arrested six Colombians insurgents who were transferred the same evening on Friday at the capital city.
As a result of the shooting, three of the guerrillas were wounded yesterday and continued at Ward 31 St. Thomas Hospital, reported Eynar Cruz, head of the fourth emergency.
The rest of the insurgents are detained in a "high security prison" in the Directorate of Intelligence and Investigation Police, according to the same official gazette.
Yesterday, security was reinforced in Jaqué, as in the vicinity of St. Thomas
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Panama, Sunday 24 2008
FARC. GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZES CONFRONTATION WITH THE COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS.
After incursion foot of reinforcing police force in Darien
Among the six Colombian guerrillas arrested one woman and a child under 17 years of age.
Authorities research moved to the area of conflict to coordinate investigations.
La Prensa/ IVAN JURY
HOSPITALIZADOS. While reinforcing security in the St. Thomas Hospital where they were placed three wounded guerrillas, the Government announced its version of events.
RAFAEL PEREZ G.
MARIANELA A. FERRER
Panorama at prensa.com
After the incursion of 57 members of the Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the vicinity of the border community of Jaqué in Darien, the National Police reinforced the stand of strength in the area.
At noon last Friday, six guerrillas, including a woman, fought a battle with members of the Panamanian police which resulted in the arrest of the group of insurgents was transferred to the capital city.
After the skirmish, the first prosecutor Drug Jose Abel Almengor, and the director of the Technical Judicial Police, Jose Ayú Prado, among others, traveled to the community of Jaqué.
This newspaper yesterday tried to obtain a version of Gina Benedetti, ambassador of Colombia in Panama, but it was not possible. The diplomatic left a message on his cell phone, saying he was at a meeting in Cartagena and would be returning to Panama in the afternoon next Monday.
CAÿDOS
The scuffle last Friday left four people wounded, including three Colombians, who are out of danger in Room 31 [where detainees are internally] at St. Thomas Hospital (HST), and a Panamanian police, who is imprisoned at the Metropolitan Complex.
According to Eynar Cruz, head of the Fourth Emergency HST, the wounded Colombians are José Ibarguen, aged 36, who was shot in the left knee; Antonio Perez, 17 years old, wounded in the right arm , while his colleague, John Beluche, 19, shot him in his right hand. His state of health is stable, Cruz said.
The rest of the guerrillas detained in the cell is "high security" of the Police Department.
OFFICIAL VERSION
Yesterday, as they stepped up their policing in the HST, the Government announced its version in reaffirming that the fighting occurred in the sea and not on land.
By sloopskipper on Feb 23, 2008, 07:17 in Politics & the war.
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Catfish35 says on Feb 23, 2008, 14:01: Who knows what really happened? I mean you have to use a litmus in the USA Media so god only knows what or why or if it even happened. "So many guns, and so few brains". sam spade 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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sloopskipper says on Feb 23, 2008, 14:23: This is not USA media, catfish! Read it!
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Monpirri says on Feb 23, 2008, 14:59: It sure does sound like another story that we hear on a daily basis, could it be that the source is a satellite station broadcasting for all from local Panama? Annette Taddeo for US Congress 2008 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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huskie says on Feb 23, 2008, 15:01: Maybe it was Farc, The latest news are saying that the Farc has been intercepted and the Colombian Government knows exactly their location and where they are keeping all of the hostages, so perhaps they are trying to run. If the are the Farc, I hope they get them all and hang the to dry "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds-" 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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CatGirl says on Feb 23, 2008, 15:47: Catfish "Who knows what really happened? I mean you have to use a litmus in the USA Media so god only knows what or why or if it even happened." Love and Time: the only two things that cannot be bought, but only spent 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Mr. Hollywood says on Feb 23, 2008, 20:03: Judging by the location it seems likely it was some sort of trafficking boat gone awry, no?
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Catfish35 says on Feb 24, 2008, 02:22: SLOOP, "So many guns, and so few brains". sam spade 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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sloopskipper says on Feb 24, 2008, 05:33: Catfish, I overreacted? Yeah, probably. But I find both these souces generally credible. But as far as believing everything in print? Of course not.
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scooby_1781 says on Feb 24, 2008, 09:27: How about this scenerio, the Farc knowing about the dispute between the Colombian Goverment and the Panimanian govt. over San Andres Island. They saw an oppotunity and were trying to start hostilities between the two thinking that it could only help the FARC to have the Colombian army fighting Panamanians and taking the pressure off them. "SEMPER FI" 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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sloopskipper says on Feb 24, 2008, 09:59: The only dispute about San Andres that I know of, is between Colombia and Ortega in Nicaragua.
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goin_south says on Feb 24, 2008, 13:12: Could it be feasible??? Where do we go from here? 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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Mr. Hollywood says on Feb 24, 2008, 15:55: Well, Ortega would first need to find a functioning army and navy with which to that.
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sloopskipper says on Feb 24, 2008, 18:43: Ortega, with an army? That IS funny.
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goin_south says on Feb 24, 2008, 21:20: well, the good thing is... sailor jerry is about to retire... Where do we go from here? 0 funny, 0 helpful. |
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