Another STAGED SET-UP to make the government look good, huh?
"Raid frees pair held 11 years by FARC" by Associated Press | June 14, 2010
BOGOTA — Soldiers in a raid in southern jungles yesterday freed two high-ranking police officers who were among Colombia’s longest-held rebel captives, President Alvaro Uribe said.
Both General Luis Mendieta and Colonel Enrique Murillo were captured by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the November 1998 siege of the remote eastern provincial capital Mitu.
Uribe did not provide details of the rescue other than to say, “The combat is continuing.’’
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Military rescues of hostages are a tricky matter in Colombia.
Many families of the captives publicly discourage the government from mounting such operations. They fear that the guerrillas, as they have done in the past, will execute their loved ones at the first sign of attack.
In July 2008, soldiers posing as members of a humanitarian mission freed former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three US contractors, and 11 police and military officials held by the FARC.
But that was the last military rescue before yesterday....
Hey, it takes a while to choreograph and stage "news."
Related:
"undercover US agents posed as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym, FARC"
"4th hostage found in Colombia after raid" by Associated Press | June 15, 2010
BOGOTÁ — Colombian authorities say they found a rebel-held police officer in the jungle yesterday, a day after he fled for his life during a confrontation between his captors and government troops conducting a surprise hostage rescue.
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Lieutenant Colonel William Donato, 41, had become lost but was found in good health after taking refuge among trees more than 260 feet tall, General Freddy Padilla said.
Donato was kidnapped in 1998, as were three other men who were rescued Sunday, two high-ranking police officers and an army sergeant.
Donato and the three other men, who were rescued Sunday during a confrontation between the military and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia....Yeah, send that salt shaker over, thanks.
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Free Kick: 1 political prisoner freed, 6 transferred
