Vice President Francisco Santos on Saturday blamed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for planting the car bomb at an exclusive Bogota social club, killing at least 25 and injured more than 150.
Santos said that he "had no doubt," that the FARC, Colombia's largest rebel group, was responsible for the blast which gutted the El Nogal Club, suggesting the rebels were making good on their threat to carry attacks to the capital's elite.
He blamed the rebel organization for adopting the tactics of the drug lords who plague the country as well.
"Before, what the narcoterrorists used, now they (FARC) use without any concerns of conscience," he said.
The bombing was the worst terrorist attack in Colombia since Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel orchestrated a wave of bombings and assassinations in the 1980s and early 1990s. His organization carried out the attacks in Colombia's cities in an attempt to preven his extradition to the United States.
The 330-pound bomb was planted in a car in the underground parking garage. It gutted much of the fancy club that was packed Friday night.
