Evo Continues Suspicious of US Position

Bolivian President Evo Morales reiterated Friday that he considers the participation of a US citizen in two terrorist attacks here as suspicious and demanded that the US play a role in the investigation.

In a brief press conference the president said he had received no official communication of annoyance from the US about his comments on the two terrorist bombings that caused two deaths here.

He insisted that it is suspicious that for the first time in history a North American came to Bolivia to kill innocent people and added "I hope they [terrorists] don´t keep coming."

President Morales again asked that the US Embassy assist in a thorough investigation of the antecedents and relations of Lestat Claudius de Orleans, the terrorist now in a high security prison outside La Paz.

Minister of Interior Alicia Munoz also noted that De Orleans is key to the case, and he had admitted receiving money from the US.

Morales, who discards the notion of insanity despite De Orleans´ performance for the media, said he believes the attacks are by foreign agents at the service of sectors of the oligarchy affected by Bolivia´s present process of change.