$20 Million Was Paid For Ingrid Betancourt »
Posted By skeptic271 3 months, 1 week ago in NewsThe rescue wasn't quite such a miracle after all. Why hasn't this article appeared in the US press? Perhaps our press isn't as free as we think. This story is in Spanish but it can easily be run through a translator. http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?fr=avbbf-us
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skeptic2713 months, 1 week ago
Two days after the happy and extraordinary success of the army, that managed to release to the ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, the most famous hostage of the world, without shooting a single shot and in an action that was described by the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe like "an epic epic", two European journalistic media ended the legend and denounced an interested political exchange between the Colombian government and the guerrillas.
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Shortly before the airplane of the French government, who transported Betancourt, landed in a military airport near Paris, the Swiss French-speaking radio station, Radio Suisse Romande (RSS), revealed that the famous "Operation Check" had not been another thing that a assembly of the Colombian government to hide to an operation much more complex. Mentioning a "reliable source", the journalist, Frederich Bassel, revealed that a select group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (the FARC) had accepted to release Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages, in exchange for 20 million dollars and political asylum in France. That wasn't everything. The journalist indicated that the operation had been designed by the government of the United States, interested in rescuing to three agents of the FBI lent to the DEA, who had been captured by the FARC in 2003, when they collected information on culture of drugs in the forests of the Caquetá.
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