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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday rejected allegations in a leaked CIA report that his army chief collaborated extensively with right-wing militias accused of some of the worst atrocities in Colombia's long-running civil conflict.
The leaked CIA report was the basis for a Los Angeles Times article published Sunday that linked Gen. Mario Montoya, a close ally of the president, to a paramilitary group headed by one of the nation's biggest drug traffickers, whose extradition has been requested by the U.S.
The CIA document, which according to the newspaper was based on intelligence gathered by an allied Western agency, said that as head of the army's 4th brigade Montoya worked with the militia to carry out a deadly raid in a poor neighborhood in the city of Medellin in 2002.
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