Studies show that US coverage is Israeli-centric. The main bureaus for CNN, Associated Press, Time, etc. are located in Israel and often staffed by Israelis. The son of the NY Times bureau chief is in the Israeli army;"pundit" Jeffrey Goldberg served in the IDF; Wolf Blitzer worked for AIPAC. Because the U.S. gives Israel over $8 million/day - more than to any other nation - we feel it is essential that we be fully informed on this region. Below are news reports to augment mainstream coverage.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Israeli who trained Colombia guerillas wins appeal against extradition

Ha'aretz
An Israeli mercenary convicted by Colombia for training paramilitary squads linked to drug trafficking in the 1980s won an appeal against extradition from Russia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said on Wednesday.

Gal Yair Klein, born in 1943, was tried in absentia in 2001 for training the "death squads" which were used by Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Pablo Escobar, leaders of the notorious Medellin drug cartel, to wage war against the Colombian state in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Yair Klein also spent 16 months in a Sierra Leone jail between 1999 and 2000, charged with smuggling arms for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) guerrilla...  Full story
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