The kicker was that the rescuers, who were Colombian military, fooled the FARC rebels into handing over the prisoners (which also included 3 American contractors) by wearing the official, if somewhat obvious, communist uniform of Che Guevara t-shirts. Idiots....
7/3/08
Victory over terror
I just read this morning of an encouraging development in the worldwide war on terror. Though generally this effort manifests itself in battling Islamic terrorism, Wednesday we saw a victory over terrorists of a different stripe as the former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages were rescued from the narco-terrorist group FARC. Betancourt had been held as a key bargaining chip for 6 years in the rebel group's ongoing war against the Colombian government. Along with their release, the operation succeeded in capturing the important FARC leader known as "Cesar" who was to be escorting the prisoners. The operation may in fact signal the beginning of the end for the marxist FARC which has plagued Colombia since the mid 60's.
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Thrilled about this, but wish people would spell Colombia correctly-I had to sort myself out on that as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the spell check. I will correct it in the text right now. You'd think with all my Spanish practice I'd have remembered that.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that what with living in the District of COLUMBIA, I wouldn't have to wonder which way the country spells its name, but here we are.....
ReplyDeleteLove you axe-boy!
Hi, if you are the guy( Mattie) who is in Ukraine and from Colorado AND a Christian. i just want to say you are too cool for some people who can't stop thinking about themselves. I am from Crimea, but i was adopted in 1999 and now i live in MN. I have some relatives in the Denver area, and i have lived in Denver from 2006 to last year before i moved back to the state of 10, 000 lakes. i saw your post on Shaun groves where he asks where are you blogging from. and thought what a cool dude you are. God Bless. just wanted to say that you are an awesome guy/family.
ReplyDeleteHey Sapphiregirl,
ReplyDeleteI did comment on Shaun Groves blog about being in Ukraine and its awesome to hear from you. What part of Crimea are you from? Have you ever been to Kerch...maybe even our HopeCenter camp? Have you ever thought about coming back to Ukraine?
I hope you're doing well and feel free to email us at matthewgaw@hotmai.com.
I think we have the Columbia brand of outdoor clothing to thank for the confusion on the country's spelling. I have to say, we get a lot of that around here. I know some Colombians who are very excited about this progress there. Way to bring it to light Matt.
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