Alcides Mattos Tabares, alias "El Samario," claimed that as part of the Northern Bloc of the AUC he took part in the murdering of employees ordered by Drummond…[claiming that they] "had" to be killed because they were organizing a strike…From 2002 until his 2005 capture, Tabares patrolled Drummond’s railway lines, where he participated in killings, sometimes directed by Drummond employees, he claimed…Lawyers for the company have claimed that Drummond relied on the Colombian military and its own security forces to defend against guerrilla attacks on company trains… Officials for the Alabama-based Drummond Ltd. have denied all claims that the company had connections to the AUC or any other paramilitary group…