Colombia needs help hunting trio
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Colombia has appealed for international help to capture three IRA linked Irishmen on the run after being jailed for 17 years for aiding Marxist terrorists.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent two helicopters into Colombia on Friday on a delicate mission to pluck three hostages from the rebel-held jungle.
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By Melissa Eddy Associated Press  BUCHENWALD, Germany -- The hunt begins with a number.
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Colombia's hardline government said Friday it is willing to meet with members of the country's main leftist rebel group in an unprecedented offer aimed at freeing dozens of rebel-held hostages, including three Americans.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has offered to release 50 insurgents accused of minor crimes in exchange for an equal number of hostages in rebel hands, including three Americans, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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BOGOTA -- Police arrested three men and broke up a plot to attack US military officers who train Colombian police and soldiers in a popular weekend getaway, the US Embassy said yesterday. The suspects were arrested Saturday in the central city of Melgar, home to the Tolemaida military base, which houses a training center for anti drug agents. The men ...
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Central American authorities have asked the FBI to help solve the murder of three Salvadoran representatives to Central America's regional parliament in Guatemala this week.
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BOGOT -- Troops backed by helicopters searched yesterday for seven Colombian tourists kidnapped by Marxist rebels as they celebrated the holidays at a lakeside spa, authorities said. Rebels with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia raided a cluster of bungalows late Friday near San Rafael, 140 miles northwest of Bogot, and herded the vacationers into vehicles, Jorge Mejia, deputy governor ...
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LETICIA, Colombia -- The presidents of Colombia and Brazil met on their Amazon jungle border yesterday to discuss the dispute between Colombia and Venezuela, sparked by the abduction of a Marxist guerrilla on Venezuelan soil.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A delicate mission to free three hostages held by Colombian guerrillas was close to collapse on Monday as the government and rebel leaders accused each other of trying to kill the deal.
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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia's vast jungles was tottering on the edge of collapse Monday, with guerrillas still not revealing where they'll free the hostages.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Troops backed by helicopters searched Sunday for seven Colombian tourists kidnapped by Marxist rebels as they celebrated Christmas at a lakeside spa, authorities said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian rebels holding 62   hostages, including three Americans and former presidential   candidate Ingrid Betancourt, called on Monday for   "face-to-face" talks with the government on a prisoner   exchange.
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BOGOTA -- Four hundred Colombian Indians, carrying only sticks, plan to confront heavily armed Marxist rebels to demand that they release community leaders kidnapped in August, an Indian official said yesterday.
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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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By Jason Webb BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia is proposing to meetwith Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate therelease of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostagesincluding three Americans.
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A shootout erupted in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Sunday.