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USN Current Issue

Warrior Class

Why Special Forces Are America's Tool Of Choice In Colombia And Around The Globe

By Linda Robinson
Posted 2/2/03
Page 10 of 10

Recent Special Forces deployments

[World map data are not available]

Arauca, Colombia

[Map labels]

Inset: COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA

Pipeline: Attacked by armed groups 962 times since 2001

Colombian military base

Clandestine air strip used by armed groups

Three Americans killed, 1999

Two Americans kidnapped, 2003

Arauca

Caño Limón

Arauquita

Saravena

Banadia

Fortúl

Tame

Puerto Rondon

Cravo Norte

[Key]

U.S. Special Forces

Main coca production

Pipeline pumping station

Airport

Gun and drug trade routes

Area controlled by armed groups

Sources: U.S. Army Special Forces Command; Central Intelligence Agency; Occidental Petroleum; Cambio magazine

Graphic by Stephen Rountree--USN&WR

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