[piasa]

[Freelance journalist] Botero, who has known some senior FARC commanders since they studied together in the former Soviet Union, will publish his account on the Americans in a Colombian magazine next week.

The AP purchased Botero's photographs of the American captives for international distribution.

He is also trying to sell a video he shot of the captured Americans to a U.S. television network. The FBI previously confirmed it has obtained copies of part of the video, apparently from an American producer.

What a guy. A journalist who studied in the Soviet Union with a pack of leftwing terrorists... now why doesn't that shock me?

[piasa]

Botero said the three made clear they want to be freed through a prisoner exchange and not a rescue. "I asked them, what do you think of the word 'rescue?' And the three said, "Death. Death. Death,'" he recalled. "The three reject that path."

The U.S. Embassy issued a statement Friday saying the United States seeks "to obtain the safe release of the American hostages without making concessions to the terrorists holding them."

Wonder why it is that Jimmuh Carter and Jessie Jackson haven't put a little pressure on their leftwing buddies to get a nice PR release? Used to be Jessie was always first on the scene.

[Squantos]

There are also quite a large group of IRA "advisors" in that region assisting the FARC.

Stay Safe !

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!