A really cool rescue of some hostages, including three Americans, came in Columbia yesterday.
Some Columbian government troops infiltrated the rebel group "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (known as FARC) who had been holding several hostages for several years.
Bloomberg tells the story of how the thugs were planning to transfer the hostages to another rebel camp and placed them on a helicopter they thought was a rebel helicopter, but was instead piloted by the undercover Columbian troops.
Here is what hostage Ingrid Betancourt saw when she was handcuffed and manhandled aboard:
The T-shirts emblazoned with images of Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara convinced Ingrid Betancourt. She assumed the men with the iconic revolutionary on their chests were ushering her into the white helicopter for transfer to yet another rebel camp.
Instead, Betancourt, along with 14 other hostages, was taking her first steps toward freedom after six years of being held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Once the helicopter got out of range of the FARC camp, the undercover Columbian troops overpowered the FARC thugs who came aboard with the hostages and freed the hostages.
After the unmarked helicopter flew over the jungle and out of range of the FARC camp, the hostages saw the men in Che T- shirts spring on their captor. Gerardo Antonio Aguilar Ramirez, known by his alias as Cesar, was tied up and blindfolded. Then the Colombian troops revealed their identity.
``We are the national army, you are free!'' the six agents on board told them. ``The helicopter almost fell out of the sky because we jumped and screamed, we hugged and cried,'' Betancourt said.
What an incredible story! As others are saying, it's like something out of a movie.
I have to wonder, though. When Betancourt saw all those Che Guevara shirts on the helicopter, did it ever cross her mind that she might be taken to a Barack Obama rally?
3 comments:
This is the most idiotic story I've ever seen. If you insist on being an ideologue, please at least use grammar correctly.
I don't think the rescue of hostages by heroic Columbian military troops is idiotic at all.
Would you care to point out the incorrect grammar, or is a cheap shot the best you can do?
(I'm starting to detect a new liberal tactic: when you have no substantive rebuttal, criticize grammar)
Bob, you know what I find hilarious? When a person is saying the writer/commenter lost all credibility due to a spelling error, while all the while the accuser is guilty of their own.
Or, how about when the person went on and on an on about how the writer (of their focus) had no credibility, and neither did the paper, due to an alleged spelling error. The error? The writer sited the PEW poll and the person thought they misspelled "few".
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