FARC leaders were paid millions to free hostages: Swiss radio
Saying the United States, which had three of its citizens among those freed, was behind the deal, it put the price of the ransom at some $20 million.
Posted Jul 4, 2008 08:08 AM PST
Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS
U.K. file on Entebbe contains claim that Israel behind hijacking
The Jewish Sarkozy can bask in the reflected glory.
Íngrid Betancourt - Wikipedia She was quite the pain in the butt at one time for the corrupt US-backed Columbian government. You will notice the Wikipedia entry has already been zionised except for the "ant-corruption activist" part. Ask yourself why a leftist would be held hostage by a leftist guerilla group? The old Polish saying goes, if you don't understand why something happens in politics, it's the money.
Ingrid Betancourt put aside her quiet life as an expatriated mother to return to her country and fight 17 years ago. She condemned corruption, violence, and fought for remote economic areas and for the poor.
Columbian by birth, Betancourt first worked for the finance minister trying to change things from the inside. Faced with the lack of results, she decided to run for office.
She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 then to the Senate in 1998.
Betancourt then created the "Oxygen" party and decided to run for president in the May 2002 elections.
Last update - 08:48 04/07/2008
Colombia hostage rescue: the Israeli angle
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent and Agencies
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was released after six years in captivity on Wednesday, compared her "impeccable" rescue operation to Israeli commando operations.
Perhaps she did not know it, but Israel indeed contributed to the elaborately-planned, daring rescue mission.
Betancourt, who was kidnapped in 2002 by Marxist rebels in Colombia (FARC), was rescued without a shot being fired. Colombian military agents, who had penetrated FARC's leadership, instructed her guards to transfer her to another rebel group.
Corruption, drugs, money and various talmudic bastards..
Nothing in this story is as it seems on the surface.
=politics
Behind the Colombia hostage rescue
That was quick! Google's Blogger kills another blog for the Israel Lobby!
nobody comes out of the jungle looking like those folks did...what a complete sham...and Ms. Betencourt was a rightwinger, not a liberal like she is being postured as now, for her eventual triumphant reurn to columbian politics, to be posed as the opposite of her criminal facist political ally Alvaro Uribe and his death squads, who she will take leadership of to kill union organizers and christian leaders...good stuff
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