BREAKING: Ingrid Betancourt Freed From Columbian Rebels!
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Ingrid Betancourt, who has been held hostage by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels for six years, has been freed in a cunning military operation in the Colombian jungle.
Colombian security forces rescued the French-Colombian politician, 11 Colombian police and three US intelligence operatives in an operation in the eastern jungle province of Guaviare which saw the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) lose their negotiating trump cards.
The guerrillas were holding almost 60 political hostages, whom they want to exchange for hundreds of rebels in prison.
General Freddy Padilla, Colombia’s armed forces commander, said it was high-level military intelligence that assured the safe rescue of the hostages.
“We have infiltrated the Secretariat (Farc’s ruling seven-man body) and military intelligence gave us the location of the hostages,” said Gen Padilla as he pointed on a map to the remote area of Tomachipan in Guaviare, where the hostages were found.
Undercover Colombian commandoes flew to the jungle camp in a civilian helicopter, claiming to be from a fictitious non-government organisation.
They claimed they had orders to fly the hostages by helicopter to a camp to meet with rebel leader Alfonso Cano.
“The helicopters, which in reality were from the army, picked up the hostages in Guaviare and flew them to freedom,” Juan Manuel Santos, the defence minister, said.
Two guerrillas were captured and the hostages were flown to a military base.
“This was an unprecedented operation,” he said. “It will go down in history for its audaciousness and effectiveness.”
“The operation was absolutely impeccable,” Ms Betancourt told Colombian radio just hours after she was freed, as she described the ruse played by Colombian soldiers on the FARC rebels.
“They spoke and dressed like the guerrillas,” she said, adding the operation began at dawn, when the hostages were told they were being transferred.
“It was a successful military operation,” Mr Sarkozy said, standing next to two of Betancourt’s children and her sister Astrid, adding that he wanted to say to “the Farc rebels that they stop this absurd and medieval combat”.
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