Add'l links -- prior "assassination" incident, "hunted man"

There was a [link|http://www.counterpunch.org/pipermail/counterpunch-list/2000-December/004162.html|fairly widely reported incident] which some claimed was a possible assassination attempt, in 2000, on a visit by Wellstone to Columbia in November, 2000.

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Police Thwart Colombia Attack Plan\r\n
By Andrew Selsky\r\n
Associated Press Writer\r\n
Friday, Dec. 1, 2000; 11:13 a.m. EST
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Hours before Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., and U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson\r\nflew into the town of Barrancabermeja on Thursday, police discovered two\r\nshrapnel-wrapped land mines alongside the road leading from the airport to\r\nthe town and arrested a suspected rebel, said police Col. Jose Miguel\r\nVillar.
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The land mines each carried a 6.6-pound explosive charge, were attached to\r\ncables and a detonator and were ready to be set off, Villar said in a phone\r\ninterview from Barrancabermeja, 155 miles north of Bogota, the capital.
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It elicited a [link|http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2000/12/irp-001201-col.htm|State Department denial of an assassination attempt].

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There was also an article in the Nation, by John Nichols, from the May 27, 2002 issue, [link|http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020527&s=nichols|Paul Wellstone, Fighter]:

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Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state. Rather, getting rid of Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated political operation ever assembled by a presidential administration. "There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone," a senior Republican aide confides. "This one is political and personal for them."
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....Congressional Quarterly says no senator had a more consistent record of voting against Bush Administration proposals during the new President's first year. Wellstone racks up 100 percent ratings from the AFL-CIO, Americans for Democratic Action and the League of Conservation Voters. He is the veteran grassroots organizer hailed by consumer activists for waging a three-year battle to temper the draconian "bankruptcy reform" bill pushed by the credit card industry. He is the former college professor who has been the chief Senate voice of those who maintain that education-reform initiatives must involve better measures of success than standardized tests. He is the crusader for disability rights and healthcare reform who--since he was diagnosed in February as having a mild form of multiple sclerosis--is in demand not merely as an advocate but as a very human example of what the struggles are about.
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Post #59,781 by kmself 10/27/02 5:59:42 PM Reply	Add'l links -- prior "assassination" incident, "hunted man" There was a [link\|http://www.counterpunch.org/pipermail/counterpunch-list/2000-December/004162.html\|fairly widely reported incident] which some claimed was a possible assassination attempt, in 2000, on a visit by Wellstone to Columbia in November, 2000. \r\n\r\n \r\n Police Thwart Colombia Attack Plan\r\n By Andrew Selsky\r\n Associated Press Writer\r\n Friday, Dec. 1, 2000; 11:13 a.m. EST \r\n\r\n Hours before Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., and U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson\r\nflew into the town of Barrancabermeja on Thursday, police discovered two\r\nshrapnel-wrapped land mines alongside the road leading from the airport to\r\nthe town and arrested a suspected rebel, said police Col. Jose Miguel\r\nVillar. \r\n\r\n The land mines each carried a 6.6-pound explosive charge, were attached to\r\ncables and a detonator and were ready to be set off, Villar said in a phone\r\ninterview from Barrancabermeja, 155 miles north of Bogota, the capital. \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n It elicited a [link\|http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2000/12/irp-001201-col.htm\|State Department denial of an assassination attempt]. \r\n\r\n There was also an article in the Nation, by John Nichols, from the May 27, 2002 issue, [link\|http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020527&s=nichols\|Paul Wellstone, Fighter]: \r\n\r\n \r\n Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state. Rather, getting rid of Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and the special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated political operation ever assembled by a presidential administration. "There are people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking about how they will defeat Paul Wellstone," a senior Republican aide confides. "This one is political and personal for them." \r\n\r\n ....Congressional Quarterly says no senator had a more consistent record of voting against Bush Administration proposals during the new President's first year. Wellstone racks up 100 percent ratings from the AFL-CIO, Americans for Democratic Action and the League of Conservation Voters. He is the veteran grassroots organizer hailed by consumer activists for waging a three-year battle to temper the draconian "bankruptcy reform" bill pushed by the credit card industry. He is the former college professor who has been the chief Senate voice of those who maintain that education-reform initiatives must involve better measures of success than standardized tests. He is the crusader for disability rights and healthcare reform who--since he was diagnosed in February as having a mild form of multiple sclerosis--is in demand not merely as an advocate but as a very human example of what the struggles are about. \r\n --\r\nKarsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n
Post #59,819 by CRConrad 10/28/02 3:22:31 AM Reply	Democrat professor w/ MS - model for West Wing's Bartlett???
Post #59,832 by Ashton 10/28/02 7:26:30 AM Reply	Heh.. maybe (?) Dunno where A. Sorkin casts his net, but his first episode of the new season had several entirely timely what-ifs.. just as last season - he gave the "9/11 speech" (for a different atrocity, natch) which a Dubya never could have imagined. (Maybe you saw that?) And the difference surely grates, when you think of the remaining 280 millions to choose from. If there were a choice (or even a real debate) possible, that is. Seems a case of not so much Life imitates Art as: the only imaginitive possibilities for this moribund 'Republic' lie well outside of the 'real' White House.. until enough folk gather the guts to impeach. [Hah] Ashton
Post #59,973 by a6l6e6x 10/28/02 10:08:48 PM Reply	Re: Democrat professor. My son-in-law went to Carleton College and had Wellstone as professor years ago. Wellstone got his education at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill which is where my daughter (married to said son-in-law) got her degree. Just a coincidence, of course. Alex "I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)

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