Congratulations Colombia

Blackfive is happy they found a good use for those "CHE" teeshirts...

A daring rescue that should be getting headlines. (we have brownouts and internet outage, so I'm behind in the news).

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The U.S. military contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell — had been held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia since their drug-surveillance plane went down in the jungle in February 2003. Nowhere in the world have American hostages currently in captivity been held longer, according to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota.

The three were rescued when Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing them over along with kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. She was also freed Wednesday, as were 11 Colombian police and soldiers.

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Full BBC Coverage HERE...most of their coverage is on Betancort...