Posted on 07/02/2008 12:34:40 PM PDT by milwguy
BOGOTA (Reuters) - French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and 11 other hostages were rescued from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops on Wednesday after years in captivity, the government said.
McCain was there?
Great news!
Wow!
Of course, this will be IGNORED by the MSM on the evening news tonight, and they’ll show us Katie Couric’s legs instead.
*Rolleyes*
McCain is RAMBO! NOT. LOL! Chances are that he reached across the aisle to FARC and promised them a trade deal too.
July surprise? Hugo must be imploding.
I remember seeing a documentary on the three American contractors being held. They’ve been held hostage for years. I am so glad they are finally free!
I really wish you people would just shut up when McCain does something right. You and your cronies never miss a chance to knock him, and I’m really sick of it. He did a good thing. Sit down and shut up.
OK...I’m lost here. What has McCain to do with this? Nothing about McCain in the announcement. I am to presume because he is in Colombia that we associate that with this?
Please help me here.
BDS has been replaced by McCDS
How tragic for our country.
Where is the reference to McCain here, I do not see it at the link?
Do you believe everything you see without proof?
The other thread about this does not mention McCain. It does mention Sarkozy.
There is another thread on this. It mentions nothing about McCain. It does mention Sarkozy.
CNN just changed it, i see it now. All released.
Count on this being Brian Williams’ lead story tonight on Nightly. NOT.
“It does mention Sarkozy.”
The account of Sarkozy I read simply stated he had no comment at this time. Looking forward to more updated information.
Regardless this is excellent news. What about the others though? Apparently up to 40 were being held, or did I misread that?
McCain was here in Indy yesterday. I doubt he went down there and secured a release in a few hours. This addition to the headline has not been proven to be true.
Is Hillary runing Mccain’s campaign now?
I really wish you people would just shut up when McCain does something right. You and your cronies never miss a chance to knock him, and I’m really sick of it. He did a good thing. Sit down and shut up.
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As regards this story, what did McCain do at all? Not knocking him, just wondering what ‘good thing’ he did. You seem to know something hidden from the rest of us.
“As regards this story, what did McCain do at all? Not knocking him, just wondering what ‘good thing’ he did. You seem to know something hidden from the rest of us.”
Even the rumor of a good thing is enough to excite them. They can’t push his on and off record. What are they to do?
“Is Hillary runing Mccain’s campaign now?”
LOL, beginning to wonder.
Doesn’t this sorta look like the Columbian government could have done this any time they wanted to?
Rather than look good, this is rather troubling to me.
I’m glad for the rescue, and wondering how long they held off for the right time to execute it.
Oh, please, McCain had just as much to do with this as the blind guy selling pencils down on the corner.
This is a great victory for our friend President Uribe and his wonderful country and a blow against FARC, Hugo, et al.
McCain was not involved in the operation, but he had a press conference from Colombia this morning and was in public full support of Uribe. This is a plus for him and plan Colombia.
Latest information here, in Spanish;
http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/?p=15649
There are videos of the press conference the minister of defense (Colombian) gave explaining operation “Jaque” (As in ‘check’ from checkmate).
15 hostages were rescued, Betancourt one of them, the 3 American contractors, and the others were Colombian police and military members.
The Americans were found by the river “Abacoris”(sp) taking a bath, and with 2 Colombians on two (possibly their captors).
No word on casualties, it sounded like the FARC members were captured alive.
They had 2 helicopters, one picked everybody the other was backup. The 2 hostage takers, one of them was the “leader”. Surprised it was only 2, maybe the rest were killed ...
Next thing we will here is that McCain had to run to safety after undergoing a barrage of sniper fire.
If McCain was behind it, fine. I do not see any proof of that yet. It isn’t honest to lead people to a conclusion that is false or not proven.
But....it is great news indeed.
here=hear caught it too late!
If McCain was not involved in the negotiations, then why is he given the credit?
When I hear how he negotiated the release, I will give him credit. A press conference at a convenient time....geesh
True, let’s not try to turn this into a “Hillary under sniper fire” kind of episode by giving McCain unwarranted credit.
I assume that it MIGHT be possible that the Colombian govt. and/or military made a sudden renewed effort to find hostages, camps, etc. in honor of McCain’s visit...... but we would hope that they had not knowingly held back from rescuing anyone whose location they knew about just to time this with McCain’s visit!! Now THAT would become a scandal for the loony left. Just watch, that will be the new talking point on lefty websites......
I am sure the Colombian gov’t waited years to rescue the Americans. They figured they would wait until a guy with a middle name Hussein had a chance to win the White House before they would rescue them.
FARC is being decimated. The computers recovered a couple months ago have been a treasure trove of info on FARC’s structure and their relationship with HUGO and his buddies. 3 of their top leaders have been killed or died in the last few months. URIBE has them on the run, and is the most popular President in South America. MCCain happened to be there when the raid was launched. Good for him, because if anyone knows what the hell of being held captive by marxist animals is, it is Sen McCain.
I hope tonight we see pictures of our men with Sen McCain standing next to them.
True enough, but I was reacting to the millionth McCain slam I’ve seen here on FR in the past few days. The release of these people is wonderful news, so why does some spoiler have to wreck it?
“He did a good thing. Sit down and shut up.”
What did he do now?
McCain was in Indianapolis for money yesterday. How convenient. I will apologize when I hear that he negotiated the release.
Shame conservatives are becoming fabricators like dummies.
Nothing is this Breitbart piece even mentions Juan.
Look smart ass, many of us don’t agree with many of McCain’s views but he at least he knows who the enemy is and why we are at war and his youngest son getting ready for his second tour in Iraq.
The choice is Marxist Obama or McCain. IF you want the Marxist, you would feel mor comfortable at DU.
Bobby Barr, anti war, pro gay marriage, pro leagal drugs,
and on the ACLU payroll. You can have him.
WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!! WELCOME HOME Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes Welcome Home. Oh and welcome back to the world Ingrid Betancourt. I am celebrating
He is not taking the credit, but nobody should ignore the importance of him being there today in Colombia supporting the Uribe government, who gets a lot of criticism from the Democrats. That, has a lot of significance, plus we shouldn’t keep ignoring South America like we have for so long. The thread of Chavez still looms in the region, and Uribe is our ally. McCain meeting with him, is a good sign.
More on the operation, from the noticas24 article;
Seems like the Colombian military has infiltrated the FARC “secretariat” and somehow fooled them into ordering moving the hostages.
They followed them into boarding a helicopter which turned out to be from the Colombian military. At that point they were “neutralized”.
They are currently flying the hostages to San Jose del Guaviare, then they will be moved to the Tolemaida aerial base 190km from Bogota. Hope we see some video tonight.
CIA was involved in locating hostages.
Oh be quiet, you know the truth here, McCain didn’t have a damn thing to do with it. He has been too busy campaigning.
Don’t be a liar. McCain hasn’t been popular around here as far as I know. If you want to bend over for the liberal backstabber, be my guest.
You are nuts. Show me where I said I was voting for Barr, Obama or Nadar?
I am going to take a nap. You will have a very long search.
Now you are just damn funny. McCain IS a lefty. Sad thing is that you know it.
Bwhahahaaa!
THATS WHAT WE'RE THINKING AROUND HERE!! These men are co-workers at another division with Northrop Grumman and we are ECSTATIC they've been released!
Here is the communique we got from corporate:
We have great news to report. At long last, our 3 colleagues have been rescued from captivity in the Colombian jungles. Three Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems employees, Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell, kidnapped five years ago by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), were freed by the Colombian military a short time ago. Watch the Colombian Hostage website on the ES Intranet for further details.
“Hancock,” beware!
I don’t care if he had a part in it or being down there at the time that the release happend which he was.
The extra Wesley Clark type remarks arn’t necessary.
I still see it as very oportune timing.
I will be glad to see those men free, no matter who they stand beside.
“Neutralized”, I like the sound of that.
Welcome home Marc, Thomas and Keith!!
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