http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12106
“Stalking stalkers”
by Jim McFarland
(December 12, 2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=farc
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http://in.news.yahoo.com/071213/43/6oemd.html
“Colombia calls for unconditional release of hostages”
By IANS
Thursday December 13, 05:17 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Paris, Dec 13 (IANS) Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has turned down the demand of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) guerrillas to demilitarise two towns in southwest Colombia, and has insisted that the insurgents release all hostages ‘unconditionally and unilaterally’, Spanish news agency EFE reported Thursday.
‘If the FARC wants to deliver the hostages to French President Sarkozy or the Venezuelan authorities, our government would welcome those unilateral and unconditional releases,’ Alvaro Uribe told French daily Le Figaro Wednesday.
Regarding the rebel demand for the demilitarisation of two towns in southwest Colombia, Uribe said his administration ‘could not accept something that could potentially threaten the security of the Colombian people.’
The hostages include former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, a dual French-Colombian citizen, and three US military contractors. The FARC is also holding hundreds of other captives.
Although Uribe refuses to demilitarise the towns of Florida and Pradera, he announced Friday that he had agreed to accept a Catholic Church proposal for the creation of a temporary 150 square km ‘meeting zone’ with the FARC that would be free of security forces.”