BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's largest rebel group is calling on Denzel Washington, Oliver Stone and Michael Moore to help it reach a deal with the government on exchanging imprisoned guerrillas for rebel-held hostages, including three U.S. citizens.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC, issued a letter made public Thursday asking the celebrities to advocate the swap to the American people.
"To the people of the United States, we ask for your always generous solidarity to pressure President Bush and his government to support a prisoner exchange in Colombia," said Raul Reyes, the chief spokesman for the FARC.
The letter was also addressed to leftist academics Noam Chomsky, James Petras and Angela Davis, as well as activist Jesse Jackson.
Calls to representatives of those addressed in the letter were not immediately returned.
The three American defense contractors, Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves, were on an intelligence-collecting mission when their small aircraft went down in February 2003 in Southern Colombia. They were captured by the rebels. In the letter, Latin America's largest rebel group confirmed the three were well.
Since the American left and the Colombian terrorist organization think alike and share goals, this is no surprise.
How nice... I'm sure Fatass Moore will be receptive to their ideas.(/sarc)
Colombia ping list.
And since the radicals in this instance are not Arabs or in the Middle East, Alan Dershowitz and Tom Lantos can join right in with Chomsky and "Stormin' Norman" Finkelstein. After all, other than support for Israel, what else do they disagree on?
Heck, we'll even be generous and throw in enough to buy Michael a week's worth of food...