Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has declared "What worries me is an advance of science, as important as Internet is, being used by terrorism... To those individuals at ANNCOL, that manage an Internet page, being them either here in Colombia or in foreign countries, in Europe, the answer I have for them is that we're going to procure to put them in jail...one of those bandits in ANNCOL is more guilty than farmers, misled by guerrillas, who are guarding and torturing those who have been kidnapped.
While Semana accepted that ANNCOL was founded by "political expatriates of the Patriotic Union, UP", a political organization born from peace talks with FARC in the mid-1980s and exterminated by paramilitaries a few years later, and that its web page was "one of the fifteen most visited Colombian pages", it also claimed that ANNCOL was a part of a concerted effort by guerrilla members to "promote a political campaign in favor of FARC and against the government... increase pressure of UE on Uribe's government for an exchange of prisoners and kidnapped persons under FARC conditions... convince UE governments to suppress military support by denouncing links between the Colombian Army and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia... spread its ideology and its own version of Colombian history... and infiltrate similar organizations... to use them as platforms.
"[4] According to Semana, Raul Reyes seized computer contains information that shows that FARC is represented in the editorial team of ANNCOL and that provides it with financial support.
[6] Documentation captured in a FARC terrorist camp revealed that a Danish citizen referred to as 'Carlos Mono' was responsible for getting the legal permit for the news agency in Sweden.
Mr. Emanuelsson explained that some of the interviews, that were the source of accusations about his links with FARC members, have been offered by him to Semana prior to its publishing in Café Stereo or ANNCOL.
[10] In 2004, the president of the supporting local Danish organization faced terrorist charges for having publicly invited Danes to raise funds for the Colombian guerrillas by buying T-shirts with FARC logo emblazoned.