Bishop snatched by rebels - Columbia

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AP , BOGOTA
Wednesday, Jul 28, 2004,Page 6

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has ordered his troops to launch a rescue operation to find a Roman Catholic bishop being held by Marxist rebels in jungle-covered mountains.

Hundreds of counterinsurgency forces searched the northwestern Casanare region on Monday for signs of Misael Vacca Ramirez, the bishop of Yopal who was seized the day before by members of the National Liberation Army (ELN), the smaller of Colombia's two main rebel groups.

"Kidnapping is indefensible," Uribe told reporters. "He must be rescued, and I hope that he quickly regains his freedom."

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/07/28/2003180772

As Bush leads the world down the path of the Valley of the Shadow of Death:

World's most respected statesman Nelson Mandela says,

"What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."

"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/30/iraq/main538607.shtml

[mom cat]

1. Thanks for both posts. Mandela said it so eloquently. We must

relegate the hijackers of democracy to the dustbin of the has beens.