"Venezuelan State Prosecutor Danilo Anderson Assassinated"

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State Political & Security (DISIP) agents and CICPC detectives are
seeking to determine if the victim of an jeep which was blown to
smithereens by two bombs in the Los Chaguaramos/Santa Monica suburb of
Caracas around midnight last night could be that of State Prosecutor
Danilo Anderson.

At this time, the indications are that the driver's body is indeed
Anderson and already government officials are describing the incident as
a further act of terrorism by radical opposition groups who are
determined not to accept electoral defeat.Police say the vehicle belonged to Danilo Anderson, who has been leading
the investigation of some 400 persons accused of using massive sums of
money from the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) to fund
anti-democratic efforts to overthrow the elected government of President
Hugo Chavez Frias who has immediately canceled plans to fly today to a
weekend regional conference in Costa Rica.

The explosions reportedly came around midnight and police officials say
the explosions may have been caused by bombs detonated by remote control
... similar in modus operandi to bombings which took place in February
last year at the Spanish Embassy, Colombian consulate and the Teleport
building in Caracas where Organization of American States (OAS)/Carter
Center 'Friends of Venezuela' negotiations were taking place.

Andres Izarra

Communications & Information (MinCI) Minister Andres Izarra told
reporters at the scene "there were two explosions ... circumstances
point to Danilo Anderson being the victim of this attack."

Speaking to Union Radio news network just after 2:00 a.m. this morning,
Interior & Justice Minister Jesse Chacon said that the body of the driver
taken from the wreckage of the bombed yellow Toyota Autana was "almost
certainly that of Danilo Anderson." Chacon went on to say that every
resource necessary will be made available to discover the perpetrators
in the shortest possible lapse of time and that he is adamant that (the
opposition) in the early hours of this morning was a terrorist attack…
there is no doubt that it was terrorism. The vehicle belonged to and
was used by Prosecutor Danilo Anderson, the personal effects that were
found in the wreckage of the vehiclela and statements made by those
closest to him, allow us to believe that the corpse is that of the
prosecutor even if there remains a series of forensic tests to determine
his ID .. the body was badly burned, almost totally in a ball of fire."

"We in Venezuela cannot tolerate any form of terrorism ... we are
proceeding with investigations as quickly as possible so that we can
make known to the Venezuelan public who were the culprits to this
dastardly deed. We will use every resource available to the government
to identify the attackers and bring them to justice."

Jesse Chacon

Chacon says he strongly repudiates violence in Venezuelan politics and
adds that "lamentably there are those in this country who will stoop to
using such methods but it is very far removed from the wider Venezuelan
mindset." He says that authorities will not be dissuaded from
investigating the recipients of NED funding to overthrow the
democratically-elected government of Venezuela .. "I have appointed
Caracas Superior Prosecutor Leoncio Guerra to continue the
investigations together with 30th and 8th National Prosecutors.

Appealing to Venezuelans to remain calm, Chacon said that the double
explosion apparently came from bombs concealed in the chassis of
Anderson's vehicle ... "those who prepared this terrorist attack had a
lot of time in which to do it ... Anderson did have bodyguards but he
had dismissed them to attend routine postgraduate classes and we presume
that it was on the basis of this routine that the killers planned his
assassination.