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Hostages' rescue highlights 'crumbling' rebel group -
Summary from United States, from articles in English
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BOGOTA, Colombia - The sensational rescue of 15 hostages from the grip of Latin America's largest rebel group has highlighted the severely diminished state of an organization that just six years ago threatened to overrun the Colombian government. (article 2)
Now the FARC has lost its trophy hostages: ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. defense contractors whom the rebels viewed as human shields against all-out government attacks. (article 2)
The nature of the rescue mission - in which government agents posed as rebels and freed the hostages without firing a shot - was widely seen as a deep humiliation and a public relations disaster for the FARC. (article 2)
The two members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) face federal charges in the United States of hostage taking and supporting a foreign terrorist organization. (article 1)
The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not just to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors' ability to communicate. (article 7)
Known as " Alliance it began with a satellite phone call in 2003, just weeks after the Americans' surveillance plane crashed in the southern Colombian jungle, according to U.S. and Colombian investigators and court documents. (article 7)
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Source articles
- U.S. seeks extradition of seized FARC rebels (CNN, 07/10/2008, 226 words)
- Hostages' rescue highlights 'crumbling' rebel group - (baltimoresun.com, 07/11/2008, 196 words)
- Source: 2 FARC members offered money to help rescue (CNN, 07/09/2008, 44 words)
- Opening up trade with Colombia (boston.com, 07/10/2008, 633 words)
- Looking at the helicopter's crew, some wearing Che... (baltimoresun.com, 07/11/2008, 388 words)
- Ex-hostages make first appearance - (baltimoresun.com, 07/11/2008, 331 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > WORLD (FOX News, 07/10/2008, 810 words)
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