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Article: United States Charges 50 Leaders of Narco-Terrorist FARC in Colombia with Supplying More Than Half of the World's Cocaine
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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WASHINGTON, March 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Fifty leaders of the
Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) in Colombia have
been indicted on charges of importing more than $25 billion worth of
cocaine into the United States and other countries, the Department of
Justice announced today.
The one-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 1, 2006,
and unsealed today, names as defendants 50 leaders of the FARC, a
designated foreign terrorist organization. Three of the charged FARC
leaders are currently in custody in Colombia, and the United States
is seeking their extradition on the charges unsealed today. In ...