Top Colombian Rebel Extradited to U.S.
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Colombia extradited a top leftist rebel to the United States on Friday to face drug and terror charges, an unprecedented move that followed his group's refusal to free dozens of hostages, including three Americans and a German.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The chief of international  relations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who once  sought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested  after a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.
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Bogota - Former drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, head of the powerful Cali drug cartel, was en route to the United States early on Saturday after being handed over to American anti-narcotics officials the night before, a Colombian official said.
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President Alvaro Uribe signed the final order Friday to extradite Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever face trial in the United States.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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A top Colombian guerrilla leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges she conspired to import cocaine into the United States to raise cash to buy weapons and ammunition.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe late Monday authorized the extradition to the United States of drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the president's spokesman said.
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Mexican authorities have arrested a major figure in a Colombian cartel responsible for nearly half of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, the U.S. ambassador in Mexico said Friday.
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Colombian authorities say they have arrested one of the country's most notorious kidnappers.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States yesterday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face US drug and terrorism charges, officials said. Army commandos with assault rifles and US Drug Enforcement Administration agents escorted Palmera, wearing handcuffs and a bulletproof jacket, to a US government plane at a military airfield outside Bogota.
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The suspected head of a Colombian cocaine cartel extradited to the United States to face trial.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- An investigation by the Colombian Defense Ministry has found that drug traffickers and rebels from the country's largest guerrilla group infiltrated the U.S.-backed military here, paying high-ranking officers for classified information to help elude capture and continue smuggl...
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An imprisoned rebel leader wanted in the United States on drug trafficking, kidnapping and terror charges said in an interview published Thursday that he was innocent and was framed by American agents, but he believed his extradition was imminent.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Monday said its  peace process with far-right paramilitaries could fail and  ordered an outlaw militia negotiator to be captured and  extradited to the United States for cocaine smuggling.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A top Colombian rebel  captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela,  possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation  of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse  Chacon said on Wednesday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The most important commander  of Colombia's largest rebel army ever captured was handed to  U.S. authorities at a Bogota airport to be extradited to the  United States Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnapping  charges.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is among the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives was captured Monday in an army operation that is being hailed by government officials as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.