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San Juan.– An FBI agent may have accidentally killed a Puerto Rican policeman in a late-night shootout with alleged kidnappers, the island's top police official said Friday.

Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo said evidence collected so far suggests the 12-year veteran, who was in uniform, was struck by stray bullets during an FBI raid to rescue a kidnap victim from the Dominican Republic.

"According to the witnesses we have interviewed, there is a significant possibility that he died from what we call 'friendly fire,' shots from the gun of an FBI agent," Toledo said.

The FBI planned to dispatch a team of investigators from the U.S. mainland to investigate the incident, said spokesman Harry Rodriguez.

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Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 9 Aug 2008 10:41 AM
From: United States
Friendly fire: These are the same friendly guys that are suppose to solve the drug traffick problem in DR. When in fact the Medussa that is the drug trade has so many heads, that to kill the beast you must first kill all the separate heads. Something which is impossible when the guys with the white letters on their jackets only look for brown guys with bodyguards, never the big-shots with diplomatic immunity; The type that frequent the Vatican, the U.N., London, Paris, Tel Aviv, and the rest of the popular places the jet-set visit.

What a shame that a Taino had to fall to friendly gun fire; Just like Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan.
Friendly fire!

Well, at least the kidnap victim has been rescued. Thank God.
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Written by: ABR23, 9 Aug 2008 10:45 AM
From: Puerto Rico
The dead officer was not in uniform but had a police Jacket.. Something went wrong since the FBI had to know from the pre-operation briefing., that they had two officers at this small bridge to cut off the getaway.
This case is related to the case in DR where the PN killed two of the kidnappers demanding the family pay money.

I continue to beleive our progress is evident as a corrupt drug dealing nation. You always see the
" negociante" from the USA who gets kinapped in DR.
By the way the PR police correctly statted that 80% of all kidnapping cases in PR are related to Dominicans, as victims and suspects.
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Written by: BASTA, 9 Aug 2008 11:02 AM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
There are no Tainos. The white pigs killed them all!
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Written by: ArsenioALembertJr, 9 Aug 2008 11:31 AM
From: United States
No Tainos! No Taino?
Maybe, not 100% but, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, have Taino DNA. If you don't believe that ask somebody. Look at the amount of people in DR and PR that look like Central Americans; What's that all about? "Achinao" when there aren't any Chinese in their families, or Maya for that matter. Something that some fail to see is that in DR we aren't all Black; Some are Black and White, White and Indian; Indian and Black. Things aren't always just black. Besides that we also have Arabs descended people, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, etc. It's not that everyone's Black. We may all have Black ancestors, but we aren't solely Black. What the rest of our ancestors don't count? This is the way it's considered in DR. This is the US, where if your great-great-great grand father was Black, that makes you Black. Even though you look like Hulk Hogan. If your ancestor was Taino, in my book that makes me Taino! Especially, if you look like a Taino, Brown, achinao, etc.
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Written by: BASTA, 9 Aug 2008 12:29 PM
From: Dominican Republic, SPM
So in other words we are related to the ape family. Question; when did religion come about? And yes the Chinese were here in DR and PR before the slave masters arrived.
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Written by: Belial, 9 Aug 2008 3:49 PM
From: United States, Texas
In August, 2006, the FBI murdered political dissidents in PR like Filiberto Ojeda Rios.

"Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo said evidence collected so far suggests the 12-year veteran, who was in uniform, was struck by stray bullets during an FBI raid to rescue a kidnap victim from the Dominican Republic," DT reports.

Did they?

Wasn't something like that the pretext for the FBI murdering PR political dissident Filiberto Ojeda Rios on Augsut 6, 2006?





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Written by: anthonyC, 9 Aug 2008 4:02 PM
From: United States
"Written by: Belial, 9 Aug 2008 3:49 PM
From: United States, Texas
In August, 2006, the FBI murdered political dissidents in PR like Filiberto Ojeda Rios."

Murdered? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
He wasn't murdered. he attacked a US federal officer. If you ask me he got off easy.

As for the cop in PR. My thoughts are with his family. Dangerous world we live in.
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Written by: GhouliiishColon This user is banned, 9 Aug 2008 7:07 PM
From: United States
This reminds me of another FBI raid that took place in March 2007 .. that one was in Mayaguez .. the target was Filberto Ojeda .. a PR nationalist .. it was supposedly a "drug and weapons" raid .. Ojeda was shot to pieces but no drugs or guns were ever found anywhere near him .. oops ..
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Written by: GhouliiishColon This user is banned, 10 Aug 2008 9:33 AM
From: United States
I thought Filberto Ojeda Rios died in March 2007 .. however most of the sources I have checked now indicate that he died on SEPT 27, 2005 .. Oh yeah .. sure .. he "got off easy" alright .. it could have been worse right? .. the FBI could have chopped off his head and gone bowling with it .. right? or they could have boiled him and forced YOU to eat him .. right? .. but they were in a good mood that day right? so they just shot the crap out of Filberto to spare him the embarassment and agony of being cannibalized .. right?
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Written by: bernies, 11 Aug 2008 11:00 AM
From: United States, falls church va
where is GC, in this one?
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Written by: GhouliiishColon This user is banned, 11 Aug 2008 12:10 PM
From: United States
You mean Herr Doktor Johann .. he is on sabbatical at MIT .. teaching a course on quantum mechanics and statistical hydrodynamics .. a field in which he is known throughout the universe .. not sure when he will be back to grace our gathering .. while there he will also be looking for Jimmy Hoffa .. who was last seen with Herr Doktor Johann of all people ..
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