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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A former director of the secret police under President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Thursday and charged in connection with the murders of labor leaders and academics while collaborating with far-right militias responsible for some of Colombia's worst massacres, his lawyer said.
Jorge Noguera, former head of the Department of Administrative Security, or DAS, is accused of handing over a hit list of human rights workers and trade union activists to the far-right paramilitaries. At the time, he was in charge of domestic security. A number of the people on the list later were killed.
The arrest deepens a scandal that forced the resignation of Uribe's foreign minister earlier this week and has badly shaken the president's political camp.
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