Julio 20, 2005
Immigrants Arrested in Bolivia, A Look Back
This recent article published in Erbol News, "La fiscalía cruceña detiene a 27 bengalíes" immediately reminded me of a similiar story nearly two years ago.
Via, the defunct Southern Exposure (scroll down to December 4-5) to a similar incident where it was feared that similar arrestees were attempting to hijack a plane on route to Buenos Aires. After the individuals were released without any hard proof of this supposed plot, I had not really thought of that incident until today.
All the information available so far seems to come from this release of ABI (the Bolivian government's press agency). It indicates that 16 Muslim people from Bangladesh -that's not the same country as Pakistan, Crónica!- have been arrested following a tip by French authorities that they could be implicated in a (presumptive) plan to hijack a plane in the La Paz-Santa Cruz-Buenos Aires route and direct it against US targets (most likely, I presume, in Buenos Aires). You can read about these reports in Reuters Alertnet (other articles, like Wired's, are just rehashings of Reuter's somewhat skeptical notice of the ABI press release).
This is from the entry from Southern Exposure, but too bad none of the online media links are still active. No links to terrorism, rather human trafficking seem to be the issue at hand here.
Posted by eduardo at Julio 20, 2005 09:06 PM
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Posted by: Sebastian at Julio 23, 2005 02:02 PM