Thursday, September 23, 2010

Colombia kills FARC leader, striking blow to rebels (AFP)

 

FARC commander Jorge Briceno Suarez walks through the Colombian town of La Macarena in 2001. The leftist commander with a five-million dollar US bounty on his head has been killed by Colombia's military, in what Washington and Bogota on Thursday called a breakthrough against international terrorism and drug-trafficking.(AFP/File/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - Colombian troops Thursday killed the military leader of the nation's oldest insurgency in a coordinated assault that defense officials called the "toughest strike ever" against the leftist guerrillas.

Colombia kills FARC leader, striking blow to rebels (AFP)
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:14:19 GMT

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