Car Bomb Explodes in Front of Cali Palace of Justice, Killing 4, Injuring 20

[Bacchus39]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5698466

Mayor: Car Bomb Kills 4 in Cali, Colombia
Mayor: Car Bomb Explodes in Front of Cali Palace of Justice, Killing 4, Injuring 20
BOGOTA, Colombia September 1, 2008 (AP) The Associated Press

Police officers walk by the remnants of a car after the explosion of a car bomb in Cali, Colombia, Monday, Sep.1, 2008. The car exploded after it was left outside the city's palace of justice killing at least four people and injuring 20 others.
(Christian Escobar Mora/AP Photo)The mayor of Cali says a car bomb has exploded in front of the palace of justice, killing at least four people and injuring 20 others.

Jorge Ivan Ospina said the car exploded after it was left outside the palace, which was damaged.

Victims were pedestrians in the center of the city about 186 miles southwest Bogota.

"It has been an attack, a terrorist attack because civilians have died," the mayor told radio station Caracol.


Authorities are investigating the attack and weighing a possible reward for information leading to the attackers.

Diana Salamanca, Cali's interior secretary, told Caracol there was a police officer among the people injured.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Bacchus39 believes we should assume the FARCs "done it."

of the explosion, Uribe publicly accused F.A.R.C.

Uribe's lack of proof that links F.A.R.C. to the October 19 bomb has focused attention upon a Colombian senator who insists that the military general in charge of the Bogota War College, General Mario Correa, played a role in planting the October 19 bomb.

Senator Luis Elmer Arenas stated on October 25 that he has proof that General Mario Correa is closely tied to Colombian narco-traffickers. His statement, while not directly blaming General Correa for the car bomb, insinuates that Colombian narco-traffickers in competition with F.A.R.C. -- possibly former members of Colombia's paramilitary units -- planted the bomb knowing that Uribe would immediately blame F.A.R.C.

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