Saddam's not the only nasty to be captured in the last few weeks:
In a major coup for the Colombian government, a senior member of the country's most powerful rebel army was captured in Ecuador and handed over to Colombian authorities.
Simon Trinidad, one of seven members of the secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was arrested by Ecuadorean police late Friday and deported Saturday. He was the highest-ranking guerrilla to be arrested during nearly 40 years of the civil war.
Some reports say the CIA helped track him down.
A Colombian military source said Colombian intelligence learned that Trinidad was suffering from prostate cancer and had gone to Quito for treatment.
Colombian officials also indicated that the United States played a role in Trinidad's capture, but declined to give details.
While FARC is mostly made of peasant fighters, Trinidad had the means to leave them behind, travel out of the country, and pay for medical care. Typical leftist.
Posted by Walter at January 4, 2004 09:43 PM