Today the Marxist FARC guerrillas of Colombia attempted to murder a close senatorial ally of President Alvaro Uribe with a car bomb. They have tried for years to kill Uribe, probably hundreds of times, but the popular president’s security is too tight. So this time, the detested Marxists went after his allies. It was the first car-bomb attack in Colombia in a couple of years, and only for one reason: President Uribe has rounded up vast numbers of the terrrorists and put them in jail where they belong. But he’s not done yet and there are still a few lurking in the shadows.

The FARC’s numbers nevertheless are lower and recruiting is down, so they are saving their attacks solely for political purposes. They can’t spray machine gun fire any time they like as they once could back in their salad days – the pre-Uribe days. So now, the monsters calculate.

They struck this time because a Supreme Court decision of great momentous importance is going to be handed down, probably Friday. Congress has asked that the constitution be changed so that President Uribe – a man of immense popularity for his leadership in the deadly fight against terrorism – can run for president again in 2006. Colombians really want him.

That’s why the FARC doesn’t. They are calculating that they can demoralize the public and make them think that winning a terror war is impossible, tempting them to surrender or make a deal. They are hoping to make Colombians think that fighting them is futile. The terrorists don’t realize one little thing, though: Colombians do not surrender. Colombians are authentically heroic, and this heroism can be found all through their sorrow-drenched society. Harry Hutton had one revolutionary heroine here.

Harry Hutton, who was in the vicinity of the car bombing when it happened, has blogged the whole incredible terror attack for us, with tons of pictures – including those of the cars, the twisted metal, the calm investigators, the oceans of glass, the brave shopkeepers who stayed open for business even though all the doors and windows were blown out of their shops. It is a great live portrait of Colombian heroism and courage in the face of the hemisphere’s most vicious barbarians.

To look at these pictures changes is a raw, close-up view of human good and human evil. You’ won’t be the same after you see these and know the story. Take a look at the whole thing here.