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"Those fellows were set up."

Guaranteed.

[OneWingedShark]

>"Those fellows were set up."

Guaranteed.

Although the way this reads the reporter is saying that one of them was at fault for his own wounds:
"As his fellow officer was dying in the seat beside him after gunmen ambushed their vehicle this week, U.S. special agent Victor Avila, wounded himself, telephoned the U.S. Embassy here to shout that they were under attack."
It should be "himself wounded."