YAIR KLEIN (YARA GAL)
QUIEN ES YAIR KLEIN (YARA GAL) ?
COMO OPERO EN COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA Y ARGENTINA ?
CUALES FUEON SUS VINCULOS CON LAS AUTODEFENSAS UNIDAS DE COLOMBIA (AUC) ?
Según el Diccionario de la Real Academia Española, Mercenario es quien “por estipendio sirve en la guerra a un poder extranjero”.
El Israelí Yair Klein (Yara Gal) es eso y mucho más, según su larga vida dedicada a participar en los conflictos bélicos del mundo. Fue héroe de guerra, traficó con armas, enseñó cómo torturar y matar y tiene el dudoso honor por haber ‘aceitado’ la máquina de guerra de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC.
Nacido en 1942 en el kibutz Nizanim, de ascendencia Rumana, desde muy joven hizo parte del ejército israelí enfrascado en el conflicto del Medio Oriente y sus dotes como tirador y combatiente lo llevaron a hacer parte en 1972 de un grupo especial de asalto que en siete segundos y medio rescató a los rehenes de unos terroristas en un avión Libio, en el aeropuerto de Lod, en Tel Aviv.
Fue eficaz para contrarrestar los embates de la Organización para la Liberación de Palestina, OLP, y héroe de la guerra de Yom Kippur. Seis años después dejó el Ejército y se enroló en negocios particulares que no le dejaron sino pérdidas. Una bomba de gasolina y un restaurante quebraron bajo su ineficiente administración por lo que decidió regresar a las Fuerzas Militares, consiguió comandar un batallón, y después en una brigada de infantería que participó en la guerra del Líbano.
En 1983 pasó a las filas de la reserva militar y creó ‘Hod Halanit’, una compañía de asesorías en seguridad, que entre varias cosas presta sus servicios en la guerra al mejor postor. Recibió dos millones de dólares por la venta de cinturones, cascos y equipo personal a la milicia de la Falange Cristiana, en el Líbano, que protagonizó las masacres de los campos de refugiados de Sabra y Shatila.
El negocio floreció y con otros cuatro socios que también habían hecho parte de cuerpos élite, creó ‘Speardhead’ (que se traduce ‘Punta de lanza’), especializada en la venta de armamentos y tecnologías bélicas. Sus socios para ese entonces fueron identificados como Arik Piccioto Afek, Tzedaka Abraham, Barlev y Terry Melnik, quienes actuaban como instructores de combate.
A comienzos de 1987 Klein llegó a Colombia a ofrecerle a la Policía Nacional Colombiana contratara los servicios de asesoría de ‘Speardhead’ en asuntos de defensa y seguridad personales.
Yair Klein (Yara Gal) en su estadía en Colombia se alojó en el Hotel Country 85 y se entrevistó con el general de la Policía Carlos Arturo Casadiego y con los dueños de la compañía de vigilancia privada “Atlas Seguridad”, actualmente operativa pero en decadencia. Nunca se supo si hubo un contrato, pero meses después, en 1988, llegó al país con todos sus socios. Se instalaron en Puerto Boyacá, para ‘dictar cursos’ a los campesinos, pero los instructores no eran unos “simples asesores de seguridad”, como se dijo en un principio, estos ofrecían servicios de guerra en el ‘Directorio de ventas de defensa de Israel’. Y quienes los recibieron en el Magdalena Medio Colombiano tampoco eran simples campesinos, eran ganaderos y ex guerrilleros de las FARC que habían conformado una asociación llamada “ACDEGAM”, liderada por Henry Pérez, un hombre que andaba por la zona con arma al cinto.
Casi todos sus alumnos eran trabajadores y miembros de la seguridad de Pablo Escobar Gaviria y Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, capos del Cartel de Medellín, quienes tenían que pagarle vacuna a las FARC para poder visitar sus extensas propiedades en aquella región. Los entrenamientos tuvieron lugar en la finca Las Tangas, y aunque Klein se ha defendido diciendo que sólo enseñó defensa personal, muchos de sus alumnos confesaron después que allí aprendieron a manejar armas, explosivos, a diseñar y montar planes para asesinar a cuanta persona estuviera involucrada con la Guerrilla.
Uno de los alumnos de Klein confesó que, al finalizar el entrenamiento, les dijo que “por el trabajo que van a hacer, recibirán una paga de 150 mil pesos mensuales y una bonificación de 200 mil pesos por cada hijo de puta guerrillero y campesino torcido que maten”. Hicieron parte de los cursos 60 combatientes, fundadores de la escuela ‘La Cincuenta’, en Ciénaga Palagua, inspección de Larisá, zona rural del municipio de Puerto Boyacá.
Al final sólo pasaron el curso 20 alumnos. En la graduación del primer grupo de paramilitares entrenados por el Israelí estuvieron ‘El Mexicano’ y el coronel Luís Bohórquez, comandante en ese entonces del Batallón Bárbula, y quien posteriormente fue destituido de su cargo. Allí estaba Alonso de Jesús Baquero, conocido con el alias de ‘Negro Vladimir’. También los hermanos Fidel y Carlos Castaño. Aunque ‘Vladimir’ es considerado su alumno aventajado, también se destacaron otros como ‘Ponzoña’ y ‘Henry’, expertos en polígono con mira telescópica.
Pero el ‘Negro Vladimir’, quien hoy paga 30 años de cárcel saltó a la fama cuando contó todo lo sucedido con el nacimiento del Paramilitarismo, y quien había formado parte de las FARC desertando según dijo cuando le exigieron entregar su hija de cinco años a la organización. Se convirtió en la mano derecha de Henry Pérez, primer comandante de las Autodefensas del Magdalena Medio.
Sólo entre 1987 y 1989 ejecutó a sangre fría a más de 600 personas, muchas de ellas degolladas para evitar el ruido y ser descubierto en su acción. Fue autor material de las masacres de La Rochela, Segovia, Honduras, La Negra, Puerto Araújo en donde murieron 19 comerciantes, para sólo citar algunas de sus andanzas.
También figuran en la lista alias ‘Rodrigo’ quien fue instruido para dar clases a los demás. El pelotón inicial de 20 hombres pasó muy pronto a 50 y luego a 100 y 200 hombres que fueron llamados a Urabá a proteger las plantaciones bananeras. Luego se dio el tercer paso de expansión con Salvatore Mancuso en Córdoba, luego las AUC pasaron al Sinú y finalmente se cubrió una franja hasta la frontera con Venezuela. Desde allí todo es una historia sangrienta y larga de narrar.
Klein vino a ser conocido por el grueso de los colombianos en junio de 1989 cuando el Noticiero Nacional, de televisión, mostró a hombres armados quienes disparaban desde sus camionetas a blancos que simulaban personas y eran dirigidos por un extranjero de 1,85 metros, aprox 90 kilos de peso y pelo blanco. Para ese entonces no se dijo su nombre, pero se tiene conocimiento que el ejército de Carlos Castaño fue entrenado por Yair Klein, en el 88, un año después de haber llegado a Colombia.
El recuerdo más nítido de las acciones del mercenario Israelí Yair Klein está en viejas imágenes de noticieros de televisión cuando se veían hombres armados disparar desde sus camionetas a blancos que simulaban personas. Los Colombianos empezaron a rumorar que algo malo se estaba cocinando en ese simulacro que se realizaba en lujosas haciendas del Magdalena Medio.
En efecto, a los pocos días el rosario de masacres contra civiles indefensos empezó a llenar de dolor el país, siguieron Segovia, San Carlos, Urabá entre otras. Eran crimines similares en poblaciones Antioqueñas que luego se fueron multiplicando en el resto del país. Detrás de esos jóvenes sicarios estaba la mano “formadora” del Mercenario Klein, al que pagó el extinto narcotraficante José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha. Eran las bandas de sicarios que luego crecieron hasta convertirse en una federación agrupada en las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).
Ese hombre con gran instrucción militar fue capturado en Moscu por la INTERPOL, quienes dieron avisó a su similar de Colombia que de inmediato reportó la noticia al Gobierno.
El ex presidente Álvaro Uribe al informarse del hecho exigió de inmediato su extradición, lo cual nadie cree hizo de verdad, y aunque el tramite se inició hace varios años, hasta la fecha el Sr. Klein no sido extraditado a Colombia.
Uno de los salientes directores del DAS, Andrés Peñate, lo calificó de “Terrorista y bandido, entrenador y formador de grupos de sicarios”.
Las últimas noticias que conoció Colombia sobre el mercenario israelí Yair Klein se dieron en 2002. En ese año, el Tribunal Superior de Manizales lo condenó a 10 años y ocho meses de prisión y a pagar una multa de 22 salarios mínimos. El motivo era su participación en el fortalecimiento y adiestramiento en prácticas de guerra a grupos paramilitares. Aunque nunca fue capturado, parecía que su historia con Colombia había terminado.
El programa ‘Hablando claro con la prensa’, del Canal Caracol, emitió una entrevista con el tristemente célebre personaje. En ella critica el proceso de desmovilización de los paramilitares, quien dijo:
“Es una estupidez y una falta de liderazgo desarticular a los paramilitares sin haber acabado con la guerrilla. Ahí hay presiones extranjeras porque el gobierno colombiano no puede ser tan tonto para ello”.
En sus declaraciones al programa, Klein advirtió que volvería a Colombia si lo necesitaran para acabar con la Guerrilla, que era la importante tarea que inició en el país en 1987 y que no se ha concluido. Volvería para exterminar a la guerrilla y porque “el mejor capítulo de mi vida fue mi paso por Colombia”, de acuerdo con sus declaraciones.
Klein confesaría tiempo después que su contacto en esta parte del continente fue el también mercenario Itzhak, quien para ese entonces era uno de los representantes de una firma de equipos de seguridad fabricados en Israel y distribuidos en la Argentina a través de una empresa creada para tal fin, al mismo tiempo junto a uno de sus cuatro socios fundo en Venezuela un grupo elite de seguridad donde se sumo un nuevo socio, también reconocido como mercenario, dicha empresa igualmente dedicada al servicio de la seguridad personal apoyada con sofisticados equipos de alarma y radio telecomunicaciones.
La gran mayoria de sus empleados, custodios y personal de confianza era enviado a Israel para recibir entrenamiento especializado en materia de seguridad y defensa personal, todos ellos recibian entrenamiento en la manipulacion de armas sofisticadas y de todo tipo.
Veriginosamente dicha empresa se gano la confianza en el mercado y se caracterizo por ser prestataria del servicio de custodios armados a personas y comerciantes, la mayoría de origen Israelí, quienes vieron en sus servicios una tabla de salvación ante los atropellos y robos a los cuales eran sometidos por parte de la delincuencia organizada, resaltando entre sus primeros clientes Joyeros y cientos de grandes empresarios.
La gran mayoria de sus empleados, custodios y personal de confianza era enviado a Israel para recibir entrenamiento especializado en materia de seguridad y defensa personal, todos ellos recibian entrenamiento en la manipulacion de armas sofisticadas y de todo tipo.
Veriginosamente dicha empresa se gano la confianza en el mercado y se caracterizo por ser prestataria del servicio de custodios armados a personas y comerciantes, la mayoría de origen Israelí, quienes vieron en sus servicios una tabla de salvación ante los atropellos y robos a los cuales eran sometidos por parte de la delincuencia organizada, resaltando entre sus primeros clientes Joyeros y cientos de grandes empresarios.
En Venezuela su proyecto y empresa crecio en pocos años, hasta el punto de apoderarse del mercado de la seguridad o vigilancia en la mayoria de los centros comerciales de gran prestigio y ubicados a todo lo ancho de la geogradia Nacional.
Es innegable, Yair Klein (Yara Gal) dejo sembrada la sanguinaria semilla del Paramilitarismo en la mayoria de los paises de Sur America, esa semilla echo raices profundas y se expandio, pero se afinco mas en Colombia.
Es innegable, Yair Klein (Yara Gal) dejo sembrada la sanguinaria semilla del Paramilitarismo en la mayoria de los paises de Sur America, esa semilla echo raices profundas y se expandio, pero se afinco mas en Colombia.
DEPARTAMENTO ADMINISTRATIVO DE SEGURIDAD (DAS)
Bogota – Colombia.
Año 2008
EN INGLES
WHO IS Yair Klein (YARA GAL)?
HOW IT WORKS IN COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA AND ARGENTINA?
FUEON WHICH ITS LINKS WITH THE UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES OF COLOMBIA (AUC)?
According to the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, Mercenary's who "of stipend served in the war to a foreign power."
The Israeli Yair Klein (Yara Gal) is that and more, according to his long life dedicated to participating in armed conflicts around the world. It was war hero, arms trafficking, taught how to torture and kill and has the dubious honor for having 'oiling' the war machine of the Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
Born in 1942 in Kibbutz Nizanim of Romanian descent, from his early youth he engaged the Israeli army in the Middle East conflict and his skills as a shooter and fighter led him to part in 1972 of a special assault group in seven half seconds and rescued the hostages from terrorists in a Libyan plane at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv.
Was effective in countering the ravages of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, the PLO, and hero of the Yom Kippur War. Six years later he left the Army and enrolled in private business but you do not let losses. A petrol bomb and a restaurant bankrupt under its inefficient management and decided to return to the Armed Forces, managed to command a battalion, and then an infantry brigade that participated in the Lebanon war.
In 1983 he moved to the ranks of the military reserve and created 'Hod Halanit', a security consulting company, which among several things provides services in the war to the highest bidder. Received two million dollars from the sale of seat belts, helmets and personal equipment to the Christian Phalange militia in Lebanon, who starred in the massacres in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
The business flourished and with four other partners who had also been part of the elite, he created 'Speardhead' (which translates to 'Spearhead'), specializing in the sale of arms and military technologies. Their partners were then identified as Picciotto Arik Afek, Tzedaka Abraham, Barlev and Terry Melnik, who acted as combat instructors.
In early 1987, Klein came to Colombia to offer to the Colombian National Police to hire the consulting services 'Speardhead' on defense and security.
Yair Klein (Yara Gal) during their stay in Colombia stayed at the Hotel Country 85 and met with the Commissioner of Police Carlos Arturo Casadiego and the owners of the private security company "Atlas Security," but on the decline now operational . We never knew if there was a contract, but months later, in 1988, arrived in the country with all its partners. They settled in Puerto Boyaca, to 'teach courses' to farmers, but the instructors were "simple security advisers", as stated in the beginning, they offered war service in the' Directory of Israel defense sales '. And those who were in the Magdalena Medio Colombiano were not simple peasants were farmers and former guerrillas of the FARC who had formed an association called "ACDEGAM" led by Henry Perez, a man who walked through the area with gun in his belt.
Almost all students were workers and members of the security of Pablo Escobar Gaviria and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the Medellin cartel bosses, who had to pay the FARC vaccine to visit their extensive properties in that region. The training took place at the Finca Las Tangas, although Klein has defended himself saying he only taught self-defense, many students confessed after there learned to handle weapons, explosives, design and install plans to kill everybody who was involved with the Guerrilla.
One student of Klein confessed that at the end of training, he said that "for the work they will do, will receive an allowance of 150 pesos a month and a bonus of 200 thousand dollars for each child of a bitch guerrillas and peasants bent would kill. " Courses were part of 60 fighters, founders of the school "The Fifty", in Marsh Palagua, inspection of Larissa, rural area of Puerto Boyacá.
In the end only 20 students passed the course. At the graduation of the first paramilitary group trained by the Israelis were 'The Mexican' and Colonel Luis Bohorquez, then commander of Battalion Bárbula, and who was subsequently removed from office. There was Alonso de Jesús Baquero, known by the alias "Black Vladimir." Also, brothers Fidel and Carlos Castaño. Although 'Vladimir' is considered his star pupil, also highlighted other as 'Venom' and 'Henry', experts polygon with telescopic sights.
But the 'Black Vladimir, who now pay 30 years in prison rose to fame when she told what happened to the birth of the paramilitaries, and who had been part of the deserting FARC demanded he said when delivering her daughter for five years the organization. He became the right hand of Henry Perez, former commander of the AUC of the Magdalena Medio.
Only between 1987 and 1989, executed in cold blood more than 600 people, many of them slaughtered to prevent noise and being caught in action. Was the perpetrator of the massacres of La Rochelle, Segovia, Honduras, La Negra, Puerto Araújo which killed 19 merchants, to cite only some of his adventures.
Also on the list alias 'Rodrigo' who was trained to teach others. The initial squad of 20 men soon became 50 and then to 100 and 200 men who were called to Urabá to protect the banana plantations. Then came the third phase of expansion in Cordoba Salvatore Mancuso, the AUC after Sinu and finally went to a strip was pinned to the border with Venezuela. From there everything is a long and bloody history of storytelling.
Klein came to be known by the majority of Colombians in June 1989 when the national news, television showed gunmen who were firing from their trucks to simulate white people and were led by a foreigner of 1.85 meters, approximately 90 kilos of weight and white hair. By then not told his name, but it is known that the army was trained by Carlos Castaño Yair Klein, 88, a year after coming to Colombia.
The clearest memory of the actions of Israeli mercenary Yair Klein is on old television news pictures when they saw armed men from their pickup trucks shooting at targets that simulated people. Colombians began to rumors that something bad was brewing in that simulation that was made in luxurious estates in the Magdalena Medio.
Indeed, a few days the string of massacres of unarmed civilians was a lot of pain the country, followed Segovia, San Carlos, Urabá among others. Crimes were similar in population of Antioquia which then became more frequent in the rest of the country. Behind these young thugs was the hand "trainer" of Mercenary Klein, who paid the late drug kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. Were the bands of gunmen who then grew into a federation grouped into the Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
That man of great military training was captured by Interpol in Moscow, who were alerted to similar de Colombia which immediately reported the news to the Government.
Former President Alvaro Uribe to inform that immediately demanded his extradition, which no one believes he really, and although the procedure is started several years ago, to date Mr. Klein not be extradited to Colombia.
One of the outgoing directors of the DAS, Andres Penate, called it a "terrorist and bandit, coach and trainer for groups of thugs."
The latest news from Colombia who met the Israeli mercenary Yair Klein gave in 2002. In that year, the High Court of Manila sentenced him to 10 years and eight months in prison and a fine of 22 minimum wages. The reason was his participation in the strengthening and training in military practices to paramilitary groups. Although he was never captured, it seemed that history had ended with Colombia.
The 'Straight Talk with the press' Canal Caracol, aired an interview with the infamous character. It criticized the demobilization of the paramilitaries, who said:
"It's stupid and a lack of leadership without disrupting the paramilitaries have killed the guerrilla. There is foreign pressure because the Colombian government can not be so stupid for that"
In statements to the program, Klein said he would return to Colombia if they need to end the guerrilla, who was the important work begun in the country in 1987 and has not been completed. Again to wipe out the guerrillas and that "the best chapter of my life was my time in Colombia," according to their statements.
Klein confessed later that his contact in this part of the continent was also mercenary Itzhak, who by then was one of the representatives of a security equipment firm manufactured in Israel and distributed in Argentina through a company created for such Finally, at the same time with one of its four partners founded in Venezuela an elite group of high security where a new partner, also known as a mercenary, the company also dedicated to personal service backed with sophisticated security alarm equipment and radio telecommunications.
The vast majority of its employees, trustees and staff of confidence was sent to Israel to receive specialized training in security and defense, all of whom received training in the handling of sophisticated weapons and of all kinds.
Verigin said company won the confidence in the market and is characterized by service providers will be armed guards to individuals and merchants, the majority of Israeli origin, who saw in her a lifeline services to the assaults and robberies which were submitted by organized crime, highlighting among its first customers Jewelers and hundreds of big business.
In Venezuela the project and company in a few years grew to the point of taking over the market for security or surveillance in the most prestigious shopping malls and placed the entire width of the National geogradia.
It is undeniable that Yair Klein (Yara Gal) left the bloody seed sown Paramilitarism in the vast majority of the countries of South America, the seed took root deep, but it is grounded more in Colombia.
Security Administrative Department (DAS)
Bogota - Colombia.
Year 2008
EN INGLES
WHO IS Yair Klein (YARA GAL)?
HOW IT WORKS IN COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA AND ARGENTINA?
FUEON WHICH ITS LINKS WITH THE UNITED SELF-DEFENSE FORCES OF COLOMBIA (AUC)?
According to the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, Mercenary's who "of stipend served in the war to a foreign power."
The Israeli Yair Klein (Yara Gal) is that and more, according to his long life dedicated to participating in armed conflicts around the world. It was war hero, arms trafficking, taught how to torture and kill and has the dubious honor for having 'oiling' the war machine of the Defense Forces of Colombia, AUC.
Born in 1942 in Kibbutz Nizanim of Romanian descent, from his early youth he engaged the Israeli army in the Middle East conflict and his skills as a shooter and fighter led him to part in 1972 of a special assault group in seven half seconds and rescued the hostages from terrorists in a Libyan plane at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv.
Was effective in countering the ravages of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, the PLO, and hero of the Yom Kippur War. Six years later he left the Army and enrolled in private business but you do not let losses. A petrol bomb and a restaurant bankrupt under its inefficient management and decided to return to the Armed Forces, managed to command a battalion, and then an infantry brigade that participated in the Lebanon war.
In 1983 he moved to the ranks of the military reserve and created 'Hod Halanit', a security consulting company, which among several things provides services in the war to the highest bidder. Received two million dollars from the sale of seat belts, helmets and personal equipment to the Christian Phalange militia in Lebanon, who starred in the massacres in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.
The business flourished and with four other partners who had also been part of the elite, he created 'Speardhead' (which translates to 'Spearhead'), specializing in the sale of arms and military technologies. Their partners were then identified as Picciotto Arik Afek, Tzedaka Abraham, Barlev and Terry Melnik, who acted as combat instructors.
In early 1987, Klein came to Colombia to offer to the Colombian National Police to hire the consulting services 'Speardhead' on defense and security.
Yair Klein (Yara Gal) during their stay in Colombia stayed at the Hotel Country 85 and met with the Commissioner of Police Carlos Arturo Casadiego and the owners of the private security company "Atlas Security," but on the decline now operational . We never knew if there was a contract, but months later, in 1988, arrived in the country with all its partners. They settled in Puerto Boyaca, to 'teach courses' to farmers, but the instructors were "simple security advisers", as stated in the beginning, they offered war service in the' Directory of Israel defense sales '. And those who were in the Magdalena Medio Colombiano were not simple peasants were farmers and former guerrillas of the FARC who had formed an association called "ACDEGAM" led by Henry Perez, a man who walked through the area with gun in his belt.
Almost all students were workers and members of the security of Pablo Escobar Gaviria and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the Medellin cartel bosses, who had to pay the FARC vaccine to visit their extensive properties in that region. The training took place at the Finca Las Tangas, although Klein has defended himself saying he only taught self-defense, many students confessed after there learned to handle weapons, explosives, design and install plans to kill everybody who was involved with the Guerrilla.
One student of Klein confessed that at the end of training, he said that "for the work they will do, will receive an allowance of 150 pesos a month and a bonus of 200 thousand dollars for each child of a bitch guerrillas and peasants bent would kill. " Courses were part of 60 fighters, founders of the school "The Fifty", in Marsh Palagua, inspection of Larissa, rural area of Puerto Boyacá.
In the end only 20 students passed the course. At the graduation of the first paramilitary group trained by the Israelis were 'The Mexican' and Colonel Luis Bohorquez, then commander of Battalion Bárbula, and who was subsequently removed from office. There was Alonso de Jesús Baquero, known by the alias "Black Vladimir." Also, brothers Fidel and Carlos Castaño. Although 'Vladimir' is considered his star pupil, also highlighted other as 'Venom' and 'Henry', experts polygon with telescopic sights.
But the 'Black Vladimir, who now pay 30 years in prison rose to fame when she told what happened to the birth of the paramilitaries, and who had been part of the deserting FARC demanded he said when delivering her daughter for five years the organization. He became the right hand of Henry Perez, former commander of the AUC of the Magdalena Medio.
Only between 1987 and 1989, executed in cold blood more than 600 people, many of them slaughtered to prevent noise and being caught in action. Was the perpetrator of the massacres of La Rochelle, Segovia, Honduras, La Negra, Puerto Araújo which killed 19 merchants, to cite only some of his adventures.
Also on the list alias 'Rodrigo' who was trained to teach others. The initial squad of 20 men soon became 50 and then to 100 and 200 men who were called to Urabá to protect the banana plantations. Then came the third phase of expansion in Cordoba Salvatore Mancuso, the AUC after Sinu and finally went to a strip was pinned to the border with Venezuela. From there everything is a long and bloody history of storytelling.
Klein came to be known by the majority of Colombians in June 1989 when the national news, television showed gunmen who were firing from their trucks to simulate white people and were led by a foreigner of 1.85 meters, approximately 90 kilos of weight and white hair. By then not told his name, but it is known that the army was trained by Carlos Castaño Yair Klein, 88, a year after coming to Colombia.
The clearest memory of the actions of Israeli mercenary Yair Klein is on old television news pictures when they saw armed men from their pickup trucks shooting at targets that simulated people. Colombians began to rumors that something bad was brewing in that simulation that was made in luxurious estates in the Magdalena Medio.
Indeed, a few days the string of massacres of unarmed civilians was a lot of pain the country, followed Segovia, San Carlos, Urabá among others. Crimes were similar in population of Antioquia which then became more frequent in the rest of the country. Behind these young thugs was the hand "trainer" of Mercenary Klein, who paid the late drug kingpin Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha. Were the bands of gunmen who then grew into a federation grouped into the Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC).
That man of great military training was captured by Interpol in Moscow, who were alerted to similar de Colombia which immediately reported the news to the Government.
Former President Alvaro Uribe to inform that immediately demanded his extradition, which no one believes he really, and although the procedure is started several years ago, to date Mr. Klein not be extradited to Colombia.
One of the outgoing directors of the DAS, Andres Penate, called it a "terrorist and bandit, coach and trainer for groups of thugs."
The latest news from Colombia who met the Israeli mercenary Yair Klein gave in 2002. In that year, the High Court of Manila sentenced him to 10 years and eight months in prison and a fine of 22 minimum wages. The reason was his participation in the strengthening and training in military practices to paramilitary groups. Although he was never captured, it seemed that history had ended with Colombia.
The 'Straight Talk with the press' Canal Caracol, aired an interview with the infamous character. It criticized the demobilization of the paramilitaries, who said:
"It's stupid and a lack of leadership without disrupting the paramilitaries have killed the guerrilla. There is foreign pressure because the Colombian government can not be so stupid for that"
In statements to the program, Klein said he would return to Colombia if they need to end the guerrilla, who was the important work begun in the country in 1987 and has not been completed. Again to wipe out the guerrillas and that "the best chapter of my life was my time in Colombia," according to their statements.
Klein confessed later that his contact in this part of the continent was also mercenary Itzhak, who by then was one of the representatives of a security equipment firm manufactured in Israel and distributed in Argentina through a company created for such Finally, at the same time with one of its four partners founded in Venezuela an elite group of high security where a new partner, also known as a mercenary, the company also dedicated to personal service backed with sophisticated security alarm equipment and radio telecommunications.
The vast majority of its employees, trustees and staff of confidence was sent to Israel to receive specialized training in security and defense, all of whom received training in the handling of sophisticated weapons and of all kinds.
Verigin said company won the confidence in the market and is characterized by service providers will be armed guards to individuals and merchants, the majority of Israeli origin, who saw in her a lifeline services to the assaults and robberies which were submitted by organized crime, highlighting among its first customers Jewelers and hundreds of big business.
In Venezuela the project and company in a few years grew to the point of taking over the market for security or surveillance in the most prestigious shopping malls and placed the entire width of the National geogradia.
It is undeniable that Yair Klein (Yara Gal) left the bloody seed sown Paramilitarism in the vast majority of the countries of South America, the seed took root deep, but it is grounded more in Colombia.
Security Administrative Department (DAS)
Bogota - Colombia.
Year 2008
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