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Weekly Report - 24 May 2012 (WR-12-20)
DEA role in ‘mistaken’ Honduras killing comes under scrutiny
Echoes of the notorious 2001 incident in which a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-guided Peruvian military aircraft shot down a plane mistakenly identified as a drug flight (killing a missionary’s wife and daughter) began to be heard in Honduras in mid-May, when four people were killed as a police helicopter fired on what was assumed to be — many say mistakenly — a drug-carrying boat in the north eastern Mosquitia region. Aboard the helicopter were agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), official performing (as the CIA in Peru in 2001) a ‘supporting and advising’ role.
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