Caracas Teleport bombing detainee has double ID documentation

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 By: David Coleman

Police detectives are claiming that the explosive used in the Caracas Teleport building bombing is the same Semtex used in the bombings at the Colombian consulate and the Spanish embassy last month ... and in a fresh twist, the lone detainee, Rolando Duin, is described as having both Venezuelan and Colombian ID cards.

Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez says that there are certain coincidences which are currently under investigation.  Duin is under police custody but authorities say he is not a suspect, a witness not is he a victim to the incident.

PoliChacao commissioner Leonardo Diaz Paruta says that on March 29, Duin requested police protection claiming political persecution ... he told police officers he had been brought to Venezuela by as yet unnamed elements to place explosive devices at specific points in the Caracas Metropolitan area but had changed his mind and sought police protection for his own safety.

Duin had been transferred to the Victims Protection Unit of the Official Ombudsman's Office on April 1, and was to have been transferred to the custody of the Baruta municipal police, but was finally transferred to PoliSucre police custody after Baruta authorities claimed they did not have sufficient resources to guarantee his security.

VHeadline.com sources insist that government intelligence agencies have traced the intellectual authors to the Teleport bombing to a radical opposition grouping linked to rebel military officers who took part in the April 11 coup d'etat against President Hugo Chavez Frias ... "Military Intelligence (DIM) and State Security (DISIP) police have already linked the bombing to the incidents last month at the Colombian consulate and the Spanish embassy."

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