Thread: Ingrid Betancourt, 3 American Hostages Rescued From Colombian Rebels
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Old 07-02-2008, 14:16   #6
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Great Job!!!!!!

Can not wait to hear how it went and how many Dead FARC were left at the site....
Sorry, looks like they were punks and gave up.

TR

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,375481,00.html

Politician Ingrid Betancourt, 3 American Hostages Rescued From Colombian Rebels
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia said its military rescued former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 other hostages from leftist rebels, who had been held for years, on Wednesday.

Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos says no one was hurt in the operation in eastern Colombia.

He said army commandos captured rebels manning a security ring around the hostages and got them to persuade their comrades to turn over the captives, without any loss of life.

Santos says the other 11 hostages freed were Colombian soldiers and police.

Betancourt, the Americans Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, and the other hostages were taken to a military base.

In Paris, Betancourt's son Lorenzo Delloye-Betancourt called her release after six years of captivity, "if true, the most beautiful news of my life."

There was no answer at the homes of American families of the three U.S. hostages.
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