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WASHINGTON — A former paramilitary soldier told a congressional panel Thursday that several U.S. companies provided financial support to illegal militias accused of killing Colombian civilians.

Edwin Guzman, a former Colombian army sergeant who later became a paramilitary member, testified that his military units were responsible for guarding the property of the Birmingham, Ala.-based Drummond coal company, which has extensive operations in Colombia.

Guzman said that the Colombian military also worked closely with right-wing paramilitary units housed on Drummond premises in a joint effort to protect the company and its coal shipments from leftist guerrillas.

Drummond provided company vehicles, gasoline and other supplies to the paramilitary group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC, Guzman said.

It has been illegal for U.S. companies to provide financial assistance to the AUC since September 2001, when the U.S. government designated it as a terrorist organization. But Guzman told members of three House Foreign Affairs Committee panels that protection agreements between the outlawed groups and corporations were commonplace.

"Drummond is not the only company paying for the services of the paramilitaries. There are many other companies that are paying," Guzman said through an interpreter. "I hope the members of the Congress investigate these things further because every time we raise these things in Colombia, they try to erase our testimony any way they can."

That's just the intro, but you get the gist.

How's that War on Drugs coming along, hm?

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Well, ok, but (regardless of how you feel about the necessity or wrongness of the "war on drugs), you're conflating the actions of a private business with US drug policy.

I'm not making a case for Drummond coal, just noting it's not the govt.

AUS formed out of a bunch of splinter paramilitaries, initially to protect the drug kingpins. Their enemies (FARC and ELN, leftist paramilitaries) claim the murder innocents. They claim the kill insurgents. It's like getting involved in an argument between the Orange Order and Sinn Fein.

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