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United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228
Letter to Congressional Leaders Transmitting a Report on United States Individuals Involved in the Antinarcotics Campaign in Colombia,
February 20, 2003
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Pursuant to section 3204(f), title III, chapter 2 of the Emergency Supplemental Act, 2000 (the "Act"), as enacted in the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2001, Public Law 106-246, I am providing a report prepared by my Administration that provides "the aggregate number, locations, activities, and lengths of assignment for all temporary and permanent U.S. military personnel and U.S. individual civilians retained as contractors involved in the antinarcotics campaign in Colombia."
In so doing, I note and appreciate the continued strong bipartisan support given to U.S. programs assisting Colombia in the Act and elsewhere.
This report is classified because of force protection considerations and the high level of terrorist threat in Colombia. However, the aggregate numbers given below are unclassified.
The report indicates that as of January 13, 2003, the end of this reporting period, there were 208 temporary and permanent U.S. military personnel and 279 U.S. civilians retained as individual contractors in Colombia involved in supporting Plan Colombia. This report further indicates that during November and December 2002, and January 2003, these figures never exceeded the ceilings established in section 3204(b) of the Act, as amended.
Sincerely,
George W. Bush
Note: Identical letters were sent to J. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Richard B. Cheney, President of the Senate.
Chicago: George W. Bush, United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GGMEZ6Z1AW4SKBC.
MLA: Bush, George W. United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GGMEZ6Z1AW4SKBC.
Harvard: Bush, GW, United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 21, 2003 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003), 39:228. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GGMEZ6Z1AW4SKBC.
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