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  Americans Blamed in Colombia Raid 

Posted by FoM on June 15, 2001 at 18:06:03 PT
By Karl Penhaul, Chronicle Foreign Service 
Source: San Francisco Chronicle  

Three American civilian airmen providing airborne security for a U.S. oil company coordinated an anti-guerrilla raid in Colombia in 1998, marking targets and directing helicopter gunships that mistakenly killed 18 civilians, Colombian military pilots have alleged in a official inquiry. The air attack on the village of Santo Domingo in oil-rich northeast Arauca province took place on Dec. 13 of that year amid efforts to hunt down a 200- strong column of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).