Mens 70s Short Shorts

And if that was all a bluff?

Radio Suisse Romande said that Bogota and Washington have paid a large sum of money to "flip" one of the guards of the 15 hostages freed. The military announced would never have happened.

If confirmed, the information revealed by Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) could be a bombshell in Colombia. Citing a source "close to the events," "reliable, proven repeatedly over the last twenty years," the radio said in effect that no military operation would have taken place to free Ingrid Betancourt and 15 other hostages.

The radio said the hostages "were actually purchased at full price, then the whole operation was staged." The source of the RSR said that the wife of one of the guards hostage, was arrested by the Colombian military, would function as an intermediary. It is thanks to Bogota, assisted by the United States could "buy" the release of the hostages against $ 20 million paid to their guardians. Also according to the radio, Washington would be the basis for this operation.

The RSR also explains that many observers were disturbed by two very credible in the official version of the release of hostages: first, the look absolutely perfect conduct of the operation and then the absence of a Video showing commandos in action, while a man is always responsible for shooting this type of operation.

Worse for President Uribe, Swiss radio said he "wanted to decide the D-Day, where such release would occur, according to its own political agenda." Alvaro Uribe has indeed call early elections, while several corruption cases put him in trouble in the polls.

The staging a commando operation allows it says Swiss radio, "stick to his line that excludes any negotiations with the rebels until the hostages are not released" and "regild its image. "

Another sign of the credibility of the information given by the RSR, the reaction to the slowest of Paris. Asked at a press briefing Friday, the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Eric Chevallier said that France paid no ransom. "Not having been involved in this operation, we have not been associated with its financing arrangements, if indeed there was funding arrangements," he replied. A somewhat convoluted answer, which supports the notion of "staging".