Police Say They Foiled Plane Attack on Building
COLOMBIA
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Colombia’s secret police announced that they had foiled a plot by leftist rebels to crash a plane into the Congress building or the presidential palace.
The plan was aborted with the arrest of Jorge Enrique Carvajalino, whom secret police director Col. Gustavo Jaramillo called “the brains of the attack.”
Jaramillo said Carvajalino had recruited a pilot who agreed to fly a plane into the Congress building during Independence Day ceremonies last Saturday or into the presidential palace Aug. 7, during the inauguration of the next president.
He said Carvajalino was arrested in Bogota, the capital, last Thursday.
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