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Heavy-Handed Politics

"€œGod willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world
without the United States and Zionism."€ -- Iran President Ahmadi-Nejad

Saturday, July 05, 2008

A daring rescue calls for reward
BostonHerald.com
It was a hostage rescue right out of a first-rate spy thriller.

Colombian government agents disguised as FARC guerrilla fighters - some of them sporting Che Guevara T-shirts, no less - rescued 15 hostages Wednesday via helicopter. The freed hostages included three American military contractors and Ingrid Betancourt, a dual French and Colombian citizen captured in 2002 during her presidential run. The three Americans, who were on an anti-narcotics mission, were captured in 2003.

The Marxist-inspired guerrillas have waged war against the Colombian government for nearly four decades, part of that time with help from Venezuela’s

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