COLOMBIA MISSILE ATTACK KILLS ONE

CALI, Colombia (AP) -- Assailants launched crude missiles outside police
headquarters in Colombia' s third-largest city Saturday, killing one
passer-by and wounding at least 11 others.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which was similar
to ones previously carried out by the country' s main rebel group, the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Four explosive devices were launched from the back of a pickup truck parked
next to the police headquarters in downtown Cali. One landed on a car
passing by on the street, exploded and killed the driver, said Cali Mayor
Ricardo Cobo. Another landed on the street and blew up, injuring
pedestrians. The other two missiles did not detonate upon landing.

Police Gen. Tobias Duran Quintanilla said the assailants were " terrorists
who attack everyone."

Cobo blamed " subversive elements" for the attack but did not specify
whether he believed the FARC was responsible.

The missiles were composed of explosives wrapped around a gas cylinder.
They are launched by a primary explosion and are difficult to aim. The FARC
has used such missiles in previous attacks.

None of the missiles landed inside the police compound, and no police
officers were hurt.

Minutes after the blast in the city in southwestern Colombia, TV news
broadcast live images of the dead man lying inside his shredded car and
paramedics attending to wounded people on the sidewalk. Gun-toting
policemen milled around.

The leftist FARC has been fighting successive Colombian governments for
more than three decades.

The attack comes as the United States is sending $1.3 billion in aid to
beef up Colombian security forces who plan an offensive on regions that
produce cocaine and heroin. The FARC earns as much as hundreds of millions
of dollars a year providing protection for the drug producers.