From the UK Guardian:
The celebrations were also overshadowed by a claim that a 20 million
US dollars [10 million British pounds] ransom was paid and that the
audacious rescue was to some extent stage-managed.
Wa****ngton, Paris and Bogota' denied the allegation.
Colombia's authorities have continued to bask in the euphoria of
delivering a spectacular blow to the insurgency.
[..but] doubts about the official version of the rescue surfaced in
Switzerland where a public radio station quoted an unidentified source
- who was "close to the events, reliable and tested many times in
recent years" - saying that $20m was paid to the guerrillas. "It was
not a negotiation with the Farc directly but with a person who is very
im****tant in that organisation, commander Ce'sar," Frederich Blassel,
a journalist with the Swiss station, told Colombian radio. The re****t
suggested that a wife of one of the guards - possibly Ce'sar - had
acted as a go-between after being arrested by the security forces.
Exerpted from
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/05/colombia.terrorism
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STILL FEELING LIKE THE MAINSTREAM U.S. COR****ATE MEDIA
IS GIVING A FULL HONEST PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON?
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