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...boss Raul Reyes. Their contents, according to the Colombian government, extensively link Chavez with the rebels, even revealing an alleged Venezuelan plan to loan the FARC $250 million. Chavez denies funding the rebels and accuses Colombia of planting the laptops. But on Thursday, the Paris-based international police agency Interpol reported that its examination of the computers found no evidence that they had been tampered with. Colombia's conservative President Alvaro Uribe and the Bush Administration have issued hearty told-you-so's about Chavez and the FARC, leaving the usually hard-driving Chavez on the defensive...
...These are serious allegations about Venezuela supplying arms and support to a terrorist organization," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. Chavez, an unabashed FARC sympathizer, has dismissed the information from "the supposed computers of Raul Reyes" as fake. "This shameful show today," he said Thursday of the Interpol report, "is a new act of aggression...
...Indeed, Interpol believes the global appeals may be the child exploitation unit's newest weapon. "It's a silver bullet," says Michael Moran, Interpol's head of operations for both cases. "We've shown the efficacy of this. The public likes being asked. They produce the goods. And it sends a message that if you abuse children, you will be caught." That doesn't mean civilian policing will dislodge more conventional methods. "There is no question this can help, and probably often would," says David Kennedy, Director of Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal...
...only the second time such an international public appeal has been made. In the fall of 2007, Interpol published images in media outlets worldwide that drew tips leading Thai police to arrest a man named Christopher Paul Neil, whom they accused of sexual abuse and who went on trial earlier this year. The lightning effectiveness of the tactic raises the question: why not do it more often...
...ideal" way to chase suspects is through "proper, normal, investigative" channels. But he says eliciting leads from civilians is a "new front in the war" against sexual predators, one that he expects will continue to be effective because of a collective empathy for the well-being of children. Interpol will almost naturally take the lead in such cases because Internet clues as to where child abuse may have taken place are never clear. Determining the locale potentially requires a global search...