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AP - The French Foreign Ministry says a humanitarian Mission dispatched to Colombia for Hostage Ingrid Betancourt will soon leave Colombia, following the rebels' rejection of their efforts. ... Source: edition.cnn.com --- 105 days ago
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - A French medical team arrived in Colombia on Thursday on a Mission to try to treat Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician whom guerrillas have held Hostage for six years, a military official said. ... Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 112 days ago
Humanitarian Mission to head to Colombia in attempt to deliver medical aid to Ingrid Betancourt ... Source: hosted.ap.org --- 106 days ago
PARIS (AP) -- The French Foreign Ministry says a humanitarian Mission dispatched to Colombia for Hostage Ingrid Betancourt will soon leave Colombia, following the rebels' rejection of their efforts.... ... Source: hosted.ap.org --- 112 days ago
PARIS (AP) -- A French-led Mission headed to Colombia's jungle Thursday to try to give medical help to a rebel Hostage who is believed to be gravely ill after more than six years in captivity, officials said.... ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 20 days ago
There are more dispatches from our staff around the world this morning on the rescue of 15 hostages in Colombia yesterday. Geraldine Baum and Anne-Marie O'Connor of the L.A. Times report from Paris on the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian former presidential candidate."Ingrid Betancourt is a rare politician whose personal ordeal made her a heroine in two countries, a charismatic idealist whose endurance through six years of captivity created a shared sympathy between her native Colombia and France, where she grew up and held dual citizenship," they write.Meanwhile, Erika Hayasaki in New York reports on the three American hostages who were among those liberated yesterday. She focuses on Jo Rosano, mother of Marc Gonsalves, who was one of the three American employees of Northrop Grumman Corp. taken Hostage after their plane developed engine trouble and crashed during a drug surveillance Mission in southern Colombia in February 2003."Rosano, a Bristol resident, had traveled to Colombia three times seeking her son's release and has visited Washington a dozen times to beg lawmakers to help. "In September, she met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at the United Nations," she writes. And here's how the Colombian newspaper El Heraldo covered Betancourt's reunion with her children. -- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City Photos: Top -- Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe pauses as former Hostage Ingrid Betancourt wipes her eyes ... Source: www.chron.com --- 106 days ago
The French Foreign Ministry says a humanitarian Mission dispatched to Colombia for Hostage Ingrid Betancourt will soon leave Colombia, following the rebels' rejection of their efforts. ... Source: www.MiamiHerald.com --- 112 days ago
(AP) -- Colombia's president said Tuesday that he had approved a French Mission to try to meet with hostages held by leftist rebels, including gravely ill politician Ingrid Betancourt. ... Source: www.einnews.com --- 112 days ago
... the government and more specifically from the Colombian army," he said in Geneva. President Alvaro Uribe's government has agreed to suspend military operations against the FARC to allow the deployment ... ... Source: counterterrorismblog.org --- 21 days ago
The dramatic news that Colombia had successfully rescued Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans held Hostage for years by FARC terrorists represents a further break-through by the Uribe government in what has been an extraordinary year of successes against FARC. We still don't have the details, but what is by now clear is that Colombia's decision to raid FARC camps across the border in Ecuador on March 1, which had the result of killing one of its senior leaders, Raul Reyes, and of obtaining critical intelligence held in FARC computers, provided information that in turn helped enable Colombia to secure a series of further objectives against FARC. So far, all that is known is that the rescue took place in Eastern Colombia following months of surveillance by the Colombian government. Earlier this week, a French-Swiss Mission had managed to resume contact with FARC Hostage-takers. The former French consul in Bogota, Noel Saez, and the French-Swiss academic Jean-Pierre Gontard had met with a close associate of Alfonso Cano, the new FARC leader at an undisclosed location in the jungle in an effort to secure Betancourt's release. They had been authorized by the Colombian government to engage in dialogue in order to conclude a humanitarian agreement for a prisoner exchange. They were trying to restore a communication channel with the kidnappers. Clearly other things were going on at the same time. A prisoner for more than six years, Ingri ... Source: narcosphere.narconews.com --- 19 days ago
The source of information for the Narco News story published last night about the Hostage rescue in Colombia this past Wednesday contacted us to clarify a few details about the operation. A total of two helicopters were involved in the rescue Mission; however, one of those helicopters, for logistical reasons, did not land at the meeting place where the hostages were being held, the source says. The second helicopter was held back, on the ground, at a nearby location. The helicopter that did land at the site in Colombia where the 15 hostages were gathered under FARC guard contained a total of 13 people - one nurse, one medical doctor, and 11 crew and military personnel (all disguised as humanitarian workers). The source says some of those 13 people were Colombians. However, the source still maintains that up to six of those 13 individuals were U.S. special-operations personnel, as reported previously, and that the entire operation was carried out with the active involvement of the U.S. military in cooperation with the Colombian government. The source also clarifies that the cover for the rescue Mission was a joint French and Swiss humanitarian group. The source adds that for political reasons, in order to justify all the U.S. military aid now going to Colombia, the Bush administration has been steadfast in pushing a media narrative purporting that the rescue operation was carried out completely by the Colombian government. The New York T ... Source: www.insideworld.com --- 112 days ago
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As we learn more about the Colombian military’s daring Hostage rescue last week, one detail stands out: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a helicopter, undercover special forces simply told the comandantes that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious nongovernmental organization sympathetic to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission. It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location. I am reminded of President Alvaro Uribe’s 2003 statement that some “human rights” organizations in his country were fronts for terrorists. Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd got his back up over Mr. Uribe’s statement, and piously lectured the Colombian president about “the importance of democratic values.” But as the helicopter story suggests, Mr. Uribe seems to have been right. How else to explain the fact that the FARC swallowed the line without batting an eye? More here Also: Leftist French media give Columbia no credit for rescuing Frenchwoman : “It turns out that Alvaro Uribe is not - at least not directly - responsible for the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt (the other 14 freed hostages seem to have ... Source: www.kojakfull.com --- 111 days ago
AP - A French-led Mission headed to Colombia’s jungle Thursday to try to give medical help to a rebel Hostage who is believed to be gravely ill after more than six years in captivity, officials said. ... Source: www.project-me.com --- 19 days ago
I really kind of love the Colombian Hostage release story . I guess because I’m fascinated/horrified by being held captive for such extended periods of time. (I’m still not over that Austrian woman held prisoner by her father for over 20 years. I’m also obsessed with Locked Up Abroad . Seriously, it's spellbinding.) Nitty-gritty nastiness aside, how do you not go insane from boredom? But my real question is what the hell is that ring-tailed snouty creature on the dude with manicured facial hair’s shoulder?! Is the guy a rescuer or a former Hostage? He doesn’t look like an American. Did they get to keep pets while shackled to trees in the jungle? If commandos also managed to rescue the furry South American rodent raccoon during their Mission, it’s the most awesome thing ever. Can a Hostage/unknown animal duo be considered an interspecies friendship? Oh, and Ingrid Betancourt’s son is totally hot in a teenage French-Latino way. ... Find more results for French Hostage Mission on RSSMicro.com |
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Former Hostage Ingrid Betancourt is to arrive in France on Friday, two days after a daring rescue Mission freed her after six years in captivity in the jungles of South America. French President Nicolas Sarkozy plans to greet Betancourt, who has dual Colombian and French citizenship, when she arrives at the at the Villacoublay military airport in Paris at 4 p.m. (1400 GMT), Sarkozy's office said Sarkozy also plans to formally welcome Betancourt to Elysee Palace, the French president's official residence. Betancourt was among 15 hostages -- including three Americans -- who were rescued Wednesday in a Colombian military operation. She was kidnapped by FARC rebels while campaigning for the Colombian presidency in February 2002. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner accompanied Betancourt's two grown children on a flight from France, where they live, to Colombia on Thursday, allowing Betancourt to see her children for the first time since she was taken captive. operation. Watch how Betancourt spent first day of freedom » Sarkozy and other French leaders have long sought Betancourt's freedom, but a senior French official said Thursday that France was not aware of Betancourt's release in advance. Claude Gueant, Sarkozy's closest aide and the Elysee chief of staff, said senior French leaders learned of the successful rescue Mission "about 15 minutes before the Colombian wires began to spread the news," he said in an interview with Fr ...