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Stop by your local post office and you might just see a poster of Rodrigo “Timochenko” Londono hanging next to the Most Wanted posters of bank robbers and fugitives. The State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information about the Communist terrorist leader. But all the State Department had to do was ask Secretary of State Kerry. Obama did the wave with the Cuban dictator and Kerry met with Timochenko , the leader of FARC, a Marxist terrorist organization that appears on his own department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations a little above Al Qaeda. Timochenko is a...

NOTE The following text is a quote: Top FARC Commander Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Import Tons Of Cocaine Into The United States JUL 22 -- (Manhattan, NY) - JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Field Division ("DEA") and PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and, announced that GERARDO AGUILAR RAMIREZ, a/k/a "Cesar," a former front commander in the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or "FARC"), was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for conspiring to...

In this Friday, July 25, 2003 picture, Marc Gonsalves, center, is comforted by Keith Stansell, left, and Tom Howes, partially seen at right, at an undisclosed place in southern Colombia on Friday, July 25, 2003, as he watches a videotaped message made by his mother, Jo Rosano. On top of tropical ailments, the three U.S. military contractors held by Colombian rebels still suffer injuries from the plane crash five years ago that landed them in guerrilla hands, said a fellow hostage released Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008.

After their tiny plane crashed deep in the jungles of southern Colombia, three American civilians on a mission to search for cocaine labs, drug planes and, occasionally, guerrilla units were taken hostage by Marxist rebels. A year later, the men's families say the captives have been all but forgotten. Some say that is the way American officials and the men's employers want it to be. The three Americans — Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes — worked cloaked in secrecy for two subsidiaries of Northrop Grumman, the huge military contractor, in an arrangement used increasingly by the United States...

Working for the Release of ES Employees Held in Colombia Though one of the most beautiful places on earth, modern-day Colombia is also one of the most dangerous. On February 13th, four California Microwave Systems employees flying a mission for the U.S. Southern Command crashed in the Colombian jungle, not far from a stronghold of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), a local armed insurgent group. The pilot, Tom Janis and Colombian Army sergeant, Luis Alcides Cruz, were murdered by the FARC, and Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes were taken prisoner.The three remain in captivity, held by...

http://www.heldhostageincolombia.com/ February 12, 2003 a Pentagon-owned Cessna went down in the jungle of southern Colombia. Found near the crash site were the bullet-ridden bodies of a Colombian crewmember and the American pilot. Three other Americans who were aboard the plane were nowhere to be found. Seen for the first time since their abduction, the three American hostages, flanked by guerrilla soldiers with semi-automatic weapons and looking physically strong after nearly six months in captivity, are seen in a new documentary titled, Held Hostage in Colombia. The film is produced and directed by American filmmakers Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce, along...

<p>A videotape now under study by the FBI shows three Americans captured by Colombian rebels -- the first "proof of life" of the three since their plane crash-landed in rebel territory six months ago, officials said Thursday.</p> <p>The three American contract workers were seized by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, after the Feb. 13 landing in southern Colombia.</p>

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The FBI has obtained a videotape of three apparently healthy Defense Department contractors captured by Colombian rebels when their light aircraft crashed in February, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The tape, which was obtained by a television documentary maker and handed over to the FBI as evidence, shows the three clean-shaven American men inside what appears to be a house, one official told Reuters. The video is the first proof of life for the three men since they were captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia when their Cessna crashed on a rugged hillside on...

3 US hostages gathered with the "prisoners of war" of the FARC (guerrilla) The three Americans removed by the FARC on February 13 in the south of Colombia were gathered "with the prisoners of war" of this guerrilla, according to a text diffused Thursday on Internet by Red Resistencia, near to the revolutionary Forces armed with Colombia (FARC). Employed by the American Defence Department, the three men had been sequestered after their Cessna-208 single-engined aircraft had been cut down in full flight by the FARC close to Florencia, to 600 km in the south of Bogota, at the time...

10 Hostages Killed by Rebels During Rescue Attempt BOGOTA, Colombia--Two prominent politicians and eight soldiers kidnapped by leftist rebels were killed during a rescue attempt Monday, dealing a blow to attempts between the guerrillas and President Alvaro Uribe to negotiate a prisoner swap and raising questions about the government's decision to aggressively pursue the kidnap victims. The bodies of Guillermo Gaviria, a provincial governor; Gilberto Echeverri, a former defense minister and peace negotiator; and eight soldiers were found in a camp belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC for their Spanish initials, about 180 miles northwest of...

MEDELLIN, Colombia - Colombia's president asked the nation to back him in fighting terrorism after a state governor, a former defense minister and eight others held hostage by leftist guerrillas were killed in a military rescue attempt. In an emotional televised address late Monday, President Alvaro Uribe said the hostages were executed by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels as troops approached the rebel camp. An alleged rebel communique blamed the government for the killings. "In this moment of pain, Colombia cannot surrender," said Uribe, who was elected promising to crackdown on the guerrillas. "Now, we have to fortify our...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- The United States is offering Colombians $300,000, a U.S. visa and a new life in America for information leading to the rescue of three U.S. military contractors captured by rebels last month. Authorities Tuesday began distributing color fliers outlining the offer, complete with pictures of a jetliner, a visa application and a clean, modern metropolis lying along azure waters -- presumably an American city. The Americans were captured by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- known as the FARC -- Feb. 13 after their U.S. government plane went down in rebel territory during an intelligence mission....

<p>BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Leftist rebels said for the first time Saturday they are holding three Americans hostage, claiming to have shot down their plane over southern Colombia. The guerrillas on Saturday demanded the Colombian military halt operations in their area in return for the Americans' safety.</p>

The United States is offering $5 million for information leading to the arrest of the kidnappers of three American military contractors in Colombia, U.S. Ambassador William B. Wood said Thursday. The embassy also launched a campaign in local newspapers, television and radio stations to encourage people who may know something about the abduction to step forward. "Whoever has information, please get in touch with us," Wood told reporters in the heavily guarded embassy compound. Until Thursday, Washington had been offering $340,000 and the possibility of a U.S. visa for such information. The three Americans, Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith...

BOGOTA, Colombia - The Colombian military has pinpointed the area where leftist guerrillas are holding three U.S. military contractors but won't launch a rescue raid for fear of endangering their lives, the defense minister said Friday. The three Americans — Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith Stansell — were captured by the outlawed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, when their single-engine plane crash-landed in guerrilla territory while on a anti-drug mission in February. "We have a very clear idea about where they are being held," Defense Minister Martha Lucia Ramirez told reporters. "But our armed forces' first priority...

Guarded by hundreds of armed rebels deep in a malaria-infested jungle, three American captives pass the time playing with a homemade deck of cards and dreaming of their families. The threat of death always hangs nearby. The three U.S. military contractors have been cut off from the outside world since their capture by rebels seven months ago. That isolation was broken when a Colombian journalist traveled for days over rough roads and jungle rivers with a rebel escort to interview them July 25 in remote southern Colombia. "They were nervous, and there were traces of fear on their faces," freelance...