Video Released of Daring FARC Hostage Rescue
The Colombian Government released video today that was taken during the rescue of the 15 hostages held by FARC this week.
You can see the captives with the hands bound boarding the helicopter for what they thought was a flight to a different FARC camp. Then you see the hostages reaction, including Ingrid Betancourt, on the helicopter after it was announced that they were free:
(3 minutes 33 seconds)
The video was shot by Colombian soldiers posing as a media crew during the rescue operation. The terrorists were tricked into giving up the hostages.
Fausta translated the talking on the tape.
FARC terrorists had been holding US defense contractors Keith Stansell, Mark Gonsalves and Thomas Howes since 2003 in the jungles of Colombia.
Gonsalves, Stansell and Howes were doing drug surveillance for the Department of Defense when they were taken hostage in February 2003. The single-engine plane carrying them and two other men crashed in a remote, mountainous region south of Colombia's capital, Bogota. Almost four years later they were still being held by FARC... until their Wednesday interview.
Previously:
AMERICAN HOSTAGES RESCUED IN COLOMBIA!!
posted by Gateway Pundit at 7/04/2008 04:11:00 PM
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Earlier today I saw this video but without the narration, instead it had the audio of what was actually happening, not the guy explaining it. Anyway, I was struck by the hostage Stansell (the first to offer his hands for handcuffing), who said he loved his family and then he either said "Pray a lot" or "I pray a lot" (it wasn't clear from the audio), but either way I thought it cool that when given the opportunity for brief comment on his way to the helicopter those were the 2 things he calmly and firmly said. My understanding is that his fiance remarried during his captivity and his kids are teens now. I suspect this seemingly level-headed guy will have no shortage of admirers.
Quite the soap opera with this Stansell guy-- have been watching the videos in Spanish (excellent speech by Betancourt, btw) and came across a story on Stansell: through a released hostage Stansell proposed marriage to a Colombian woman while he was still a captive and has 2 twin sons by her that he hasn't seen! So even though his fiancee remarried and didn't stand by him, he has a new family waiting for him.
Soap opera is right. His girlfriend, Patricia, was five months pregnant when he was taken hostage. She had no idea he was engaged and he didn't tell her even though her pregnancy was advanced. I hope with his new freedom he doesn't go hog wild and let the woman who stood by him for so many years down.
Thank you for the link, Jim!
The video I translated is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4d3uZ5CRU
not the press conference video which was released earlier last week.
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