No Rescue in Colombia
By Aaron Mannes
Last Saturday night (with President Bush landing in Colombia the next day) the U.S. Embassy in Bogota confirmed that U.S. and Colombian soldiers had engaged in a joint operation seeking to rescue three U.S. military contractors who have been held by the FARC since February 2003.
The Embassy’s confirmation that an operation was in progress was also, effectively, a confirmation that the operation would not succeed.
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