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  • Puerto Rican Rebel Dies in FBI Shootout

    09/24/2005 6:19:56 AM PDT · by cloud8 · 24 replies · 637+ views
    AP via Guardian Unlimited ^ | September 24, 2005 | By FRANK GAUD
    HORMIGUEROS, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Puerto Rican nationalist leader wanted in the 1983 robbery of a Connecticut armored truck depot to finance his political movement was killed in a shootout with FBI agents, sources said. Police said gunfire erupted Friday as agents surrounded the farmhouse where Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 72, was hiding in the western town of Hormigueros and at least one agent was wounded. A law enforcement agent who spoke on condition of anonymity and Hector Pesquera, president of the Hostiano independence movement, told The Associated Press Ojeda Rios was killed. But there was no official confirmation. Main...