Ex-Spy Chief Reportedly Cites Bin Laden in Tape
Peru’s jailed former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, said Islamic militant Osama bin Laden used the Peruvian capital as his group’s Latin American “rest area,” according to a video transcript released by Congress.
In a videotape made secretly in January 2000, Montesinos--ousted President Alberto Fujimori’s right-hand man who is facing criminal charges--mentioned Bin Laden to a local official.
In their conversation about the privatization of Lima’s international airport, Montesinos said Islamic militants were entering Peru.
“This is the rest area . . . not to carry out operations in Lima but to act on white Americans in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the rest of Latin America,” the transcript quotes Montesinos as saying.
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