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US open to 'concrete proposals' from Colombian rebels Wed Sep 26, 7:43 PM ET BOGOTA (AFP) - The United States is willing to look at any "concrete proposal" from Colombian Marxist guerrillas holding three Americans hostages since 2003, the US ambassador to Colombia said Wednesday. "We will look at any concrete proposal from the people who have custody of these three hostages," Ambassador William Brownfield told reporters in Bogota, referring to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Brownfield met Wednesday with the families of Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes and Marc Gonsalves, US government contractors who were seized after rebels shot down their plane during an anti-drug mission in February 2003. The families met Tuesday in Caracas with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a mediator in Colombia's hostage crisis, who said the government of US President George W. Bush could be of help in the matter. The 17,000-strong FARC wants the Colombian government to release 500 FARC prisoners in exchange for 45 hostages, including the Americans and Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, a top US ally, has rejected FARC demands that he create a demilitarized zone to negotiate a deal. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
