News just broke a few minutes ago across OS's facebook feed, and confirmed by New York Times report.
Colombian soldiers stalking leftist guerrillas in the country’s remote jungles have rescued three hostages held by the rebels, including a police general who was their highest-ranking captive, Colombian officials said Sunday.
The rescue carried out by about 300 military personnel in Guaviare, a sparsely populated region in southern Colombia, freed Gen. Luis Mendieta, captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in 1998, as well as Col. Luis Murillo, who had also been held by the rebels since that year, and Sgt. Arbey Delgado, captured in 1998.
Mendiata had almost given up hope, as these plaintive words he wrote in December 2007 attest:
“It is not the physical pain that wounds me, nor the chain around my neck that torments me, but the mental agony of all this, the evilness of bad people and the indifference of good people,” General Mendieta wrote in a letter dated Dec. 21, 2007. “It is as if we are worthless, that we do not exist.”
The FARC is actively supported by Chavez, who is actively applauded by Obama and Miz Hillary. This rescue was undertaken without US involvement, which probably explains its success...no one leaking details to Caracas.
So, a healthy slap-down of a bunch of narco-terrorists and their sponsor, and of the venal crew in Washington who cheer their sponsor on.
All in all, a good way to start the week.
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