US mistrial for Colombian rebel
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A mistrial is declared in the case of Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera, after a US jury fails to reach a verdict.
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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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A federal judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the terrorism and hostage-taking trial of Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera, also  known by his nom de guerre, Simon Trinidad. Prosecutors quickly said they will try the case again.
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The prosecution of a senior Colombian rebel suffered a major setback Tuesday when a star witness said that he never saw the man being tried on charges of kidnapping three U.S. defense contractors.
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BOGOTA -- Three men who have been linked to the Irish republican movement were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday by a top Colombian court that overturned their acquittal for training leftist guerrillas in terrorist techniques. But Colombia's attorney general Luis Camilo Osorio said late last night that the men had fled the country and he appealed to the ...
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By Hugh Bronstein and Pascal Fletcher BOGOTA/CARACAS  - A top Colombian guerrilla wasprotected by Venezuelan officials before his capture, an actionthat has triggered the worst dispute in years between theAndean countries, Colombia said on Sunday.
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Syrian-born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar has been arrested in Spain and now faces extradition to the United States for trying to sell weapons to Colombian rebels, U.S. and Spanish authorities said on Friday.
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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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The capture of a Colombian rebel on the streets of Caracas has triggered a diplomatic crisis with Colombia that has even drawn in the United States, with a top general accusing the Bush administration Friday of trying to undermine his government.
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Colombian police say they have arrested a man on a list of the drug-traffickers most wanted by the US. The US says Dagoberto Florez Rios is a member of the Norte del Valle cartel, which is estimated to smuggle
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Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was convicted yesterday in federal court of helping hold three Americans hostage for years in jungle prison camps. He is the only person ever found responsible for their capture.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia's  largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a  Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on  cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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A mistrial is ruled in the US case of a Muslim charity accused of conspiring to support Palestinian militants Hamas.
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Bogota, Nov. 28 (NNN): The largest guerrilla group in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), had ordered to assassinate US President George Walker Bush during a recent visit there, country
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The US voices concern at the Colombian government's plans to reach peace deals with illegal armed groups.
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Three labor leaders killed in what an army commander claimed was a gunbattle were instead murdered by soldiers, Colombian prosecutors are now saying in a case highlighting U.S. concerns over Colombia's human rights record.
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NEW YORK -- A wealthy international arms dealer from Syria who once "considered himself untouchable" sought to supply millions of dollars in weapons to Colombian rebels to attack American forces there, US officials said yesterday.