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Colombia - Fifteen soldiers killed in FARC ambush
AFP via Babelfish translation | July 31, 2006
Posted on 07/31/2006 3:12:18 PM PDT by HAL9000
15 Colombian soldiers killed in a ambush of the CRAF
BOGOTA - Fifteen soldiers were killed Monday during a ambush of the revolutionary Forces armed with Colombia (CRAF, guerrilla Marxist) in the department of Norte of Santander (northern), one learned near the army.
Following false information according to which the group rebels had drawn up a road stopping between the localities of Tibu and Gabarra and took hostages, the soldiers dispatched on the spot fell into a minefield, indicated the commander of the army, the General Carlos Ospina.
According to the Ospina General, "an officer, a warrant officer and 13 soldiers were unfortunately assassinated whereas they came using the attacked civil population".
The soldiers of the 15e mobile brigade were in operation in this oil sector when they fell into the ambush from the guerrillas from the CRAF, it specified.
The department of Norde de Santader on the border with Venezuela is also a zone of culture of Coke where are present the CRAF, the guerrilla of the Army of national Release (ELN - guevarist) and the paramilitary militia of extreme-right-hand side.
The CRAF - principal guerrilla of the country with 17.000 men - claim the release of 500 guerrillas imprisoned against that of 59 hostages, among whom appear of the political and military personalities, including three Americans and the Ingrid Betancourt Free-Colombian.
Fox news is confirming that Olmert and Cabinet have decided to significantly increase groundoperations in Lebanon. Boots on the ground is the only way they are going to stop the threat posed by Hezbollah.