This from the state department, -> COLOMBIA 12/02/93 SC14249 MORE ON ESCOBAR DEATH MEDELLIN, ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT REUTERS REPORTED THAT POLICE AND TROOPS SHOT AND KILLED FUGITIVE DRUG LORD PABLO ESCOBAR ON THURSDAY AFTER A FURIOUS ROOFTOP SHOOT-OUT IN MEDELLIN'S LAS AMERICAS SUBURB. (ALSO SEE THE OTHER DECEMBER 2 REPORTS.) WITNESSES AT THE HOUSE WHERE ESCOBAR WAS KILLED SAID THEY HAD SEEN THE BEARDED FUGITIVE ATTEMPTING TO FLEE ACROSS THE ROOF BEFORE SECURITY FORCES OPENED FIRE. ESCOBAR'S BROTHER-IN-LAW CARLOS MARIO HENAO WAS ALSO KILLED IN THE SHOOT-OUT. ESCOBAR HAD BEEN ON THE RUN SINCE ESCAPING FROM JAIL IN JULY 1992, ALONG WITH NINE OF HIS ASSOCIATES. POLICE CAUGHT UP WITH HIM AFTER A 16-MONTH SEARCH BECAUSE OF A FATAL MISTAKE -- A TELEPHONE CALL TO HIS FAMILY ON WEDNESDAY, ESCOBAR'S 44TH BIRTHDAY. ELECTRONIC MONITORING EQUIPMENT ALLOWED POLICE TO PINPOINT THE LOCATION OF THE CALL AND MOUNT THE OPERATION IN SECRECY, SURROUNDING ESCOBAR'S HIDEOUT WITH SHARPSHOOTERS. WITHIN HOURS OF THE DRUG LORD'S DEATH, ESCOBAR'S 17-YEAR-OLD SON VOWED REVENGE AND HIS MOTHER PREDICTED THAT "HORRIBLE THINGS" WOULD HAPPEN, BUT THE YOUNGER ESCOBAR LATER SAID HE WAS REACTING OUT OF GRIEF AND WAS NOT ISSUING THREATS. <- I don't know where the babble about calling a radio station came from, but this caught my eye as it seems to be the "offical" state department word on the topic. -uni- (Dark)