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Secret Meeting Sparks Inquiry

Sept 25 -- Colombia's inspector general's office is investigating a secret meeting at the presidential palace in April between top aides to President Álvaro Uribe and emissaries of a feared paramilitary warlord.

Juan Forero, Washington Post Foreign Service
25 de septiembre de 2008

The representatives of the warlord, Diego Fernando Murillo, brought tape recordings that could have been used to undermine a broad criminal investigation that has put key allies of the president in jail, two people familiar with the meeting said in interviews last week. Uribe's associates later said the tapes did not discredit the inquiry.
 
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