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More Submachine Guns, Grenade Launchers En Route to Colombia

Publicado por Stephen Peacock - 13 de septiembre de 2006, 7:43
An additional 481 grenade launchers, 420 M1 carbines, and 50 MP5K submachine guns are about to make their way into the arsenal of the Colombian National Police (CNP), which currently possesses such weaponry but soon will have more, courtesy of the U.S. State Dept. NAS intends to award sole-source contract to Colt Defense LLC for the grenade launchers, carbines and related ammunition, and a separate sole-source contract to Heckler & Koch Defense to provide the submachine guns.

State says the no-bid contracts are justified, since the CNP currently use and "are trained in using and maintaining these weapons" and therefore, these contractors are "the only responsible source that can immediately satisfy the Government's requirement and has the qualifications to justify the exception to full and open competition" under federal law.

The contracting documents were discovered during a routine search of the FedBizOpps procurement database.

Correspondingly, State's Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) also is seeking to deploy a Deputy Aerial Eradication Program Advisor to El Dorado Airport in Bogota. The selected candidate will help NAS and the American Embassy more effectively monitor contractors who provide goods and services to State specific to aerial eradication of poppy and coca crops.

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I'm a former Washington, DC, journalist (1998-2003) who most recently worked for Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily (WID), investigative newsletters that cover the telecommunications, broadcast and Internet industries. Following the 9/11 attacks, my news beat expanded beyond Capitol Hill telecom/TV/IT policy and began to include technology-policy coverage at the Pentagon and Dept. of Homeland Security. I've written over a thousand articles about government and industry affairs, and I'm pleased to say that I was the reporter who broke the story about the Total Information Awareness surveillance/data-collection initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. I've written articles for publications including NACLA Report on the Americas, Drug Enforcement Report, Corrections Journal, SoJo Mail (Sojourners), and the Tampa Tribune. I've also written a memoir about my former career as a plainclothes security officer of the Helmsley Palace hotel in New York City, Hotel Dick: Harlots, Starlets, Thieves & Sleaze. I look forward to contributing to the fine work being done here at NarcoSphere.

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