Columbia gets another FARC leader
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Fausta has more on Rios. Rios apparently had been in communication with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
AP is reporting that Rios was killed by his own chief of security who cut off his hand as proof.
The Colombian security forces say they have killed another senior member of the Farc rebel group.More good news in the war against terrorist and more bad news for their supporters. The story did not have any additional details about Rios. My speculation is that his location may have been revealed by the lap top computers that were captured in the raid in Ecuador.The reported death of Ivan Rios is the second blow to the left-wing guerrilla group in less than a week.
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Mr Rios was killed in a mountainous area of the western province of Caldas, military sources say.
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Fausta has more on Rios. Rios apparently had been in communication with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
AP is reporting that Rios was killed by his own chief of security who cut off his hand as proof.
...I am curious to know where the FARC was acquiring all these lap top computers. Perhaps someone will ask the brand name.Thursday night, he said, a guerrilla known as Rojas came to the troops with Rios' severed right hand, laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier.
It was unclear what motivated the killing, but Santos said it was to "relieve the military pressure" because the rebels were "surrounded, without supplies and without communication."
The U.S. State Department has a bounty of $5 million for Rios' capture.
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