[Tailgunner Joe]

US played role in rebel strike - March 04, 2008 - A highly placed official in the Colombian defence ministry said it was a US intelligence agency which first told Bogota several weeks ago Reyes was sporadically using a satellite telephone, whose signal could be pinpointed. "The US handed over the identification of the satellite telephone to (Colombian) police intelligence units, which in turn processed the information and was tasked with finding the location of the telephone,'' the official said.

[StJacques]

"US played role in rebel strike - March 04, 2008 - A highly placed official in the Colombian defence ministry said it was a US intelligence agency which first told Bogota several weeks ago Reyes was sporadically using a satellite telephone, whose signal could be pinpointed. "The US handed over the identification of the satellite telephone to (Colombian) police intelligence units, which in turn processed the information and was tasked with finding the location of the telephone,'' the official said."

Thank you for this Joe. It's the first I've heard of our role in the matter.

And I submit it offers further evidence that Plan Colombia is working.