Thursday, July 03, 2008

Che T-Shirt clad rescue

The rescuers came wearing Che Guevara T-shirts and logos declaring them delegates of some obscure humanitarian organization.

They didn't look much like an international relief brigade. And they weren't.

They were Colombian commandos, pulling off Operation Checkmate, an elaborate ruse that would finally liberate the world's most famous hostage and three American defense contractors from the hands of leftist rebels in the jungle.

Without firing a single shot.

"Who are these people? What kind of international commission is this?" former hostage and once-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt remembered thinking. "Are we clowns in another circus? I didn't want any part of it."

From SacBee here.

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