Excerpt
from State Department Daily Briefing, February 26, 2002
Daily
Press Briefing
Richard Boucher, Spokesman
Washington, DC
February 26, 2002
...
QUESTION: Colombia?
Will the United States send more troops to help Colombia in its struggle
with the FARC rebels?
MR. BOUCHER: As I
have made clear before, we intend to support the Government of Colombia
within the parameters of our law. We have found some things that we can
do for them in terms of information sharing, intelligence sharing, expediting
the shipment of spare parts that they purchased and ordered. And I'm sure
we'll be looking for other things we can do to support Colombia within
the context of our law. I wouldn't want to speculate on anything beyond
that.
As of March 11, 2002,
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