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Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
IPS learned that the French and Swiss facilitators met that very day with a member of the FARC high command who acted as a courier to and from "Alfonso Cano", the rebels' top commander
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
The FARC of old, of even two years ago, is forever lost. What was once a formidable, organized and confident rebel army has ebbed to nearly half its size and operational strength
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Thomas "Randy" Howes from Cape Cod and the two other American military contractors who were freed last week from Colombian rebels spoke out for the first time
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
In their first public appearance since they were flown back to the US military base in San Antonio, Texas, early Thursday, the Americans were greeted at Brooke Army medical center by a boisterous crowd
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
One by one, the three former hostages stood in front of a huge American flag Monday and spoke publicly for the first time about the sheer joy of being free
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
In their first public appearance since being rescued from captivity in the Colombian jungle, three U.S. military contractors provided a brief, chilling picture of their 5½ years as hostages
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Appearing healthy but thin in the face, the three Americans who were held captive in the Colombian jungle for more than five years made their first public appearance
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
One of the former captives, Marc Gonsalves, 36, of Bristol, Conn., called the rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, "terrorists with a capital T"
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
US authorities could demand the extradition to the United States of two FARC rebel leaders arrested last week by Colombian commandos during their rescue of 15 hostages