FARC’s ex-hostages report on US captives

Former Colombian Senator Luis Eladio Pérez reports that he was held along with the 3 Americans being detained by the Colombian Armed Revolutionary Front (FARC) and confirms that they are still alive, but injured from their plane crash five years ago(Miami Herald link);

Pérez provided the first solid news on the health of the three American contractors. He said that Thomas Howes, 54, suffered a blow to the head during the crash “that gives him very strong recurring headaches. He’s got a problem with high blood pressure with very little medical treatment, almost none, and it’s very difficult to get drugs for high blood pressure.”

Marc Gonsalves, 35, and Keith Stansell, 43, suffer from spine and knee problems from the accident, he added. He said Gonsalves recently contracted hepatitis.

Perez claims that the Americans had tried to pass messages to him, but the messages were confiscated by FARC;

Pérez also said that their captors, the FARC guerrillas, confiscated letters that the three Americans had given to Pérez to pass along to President Bush, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and presidential candidates Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

But let’s be more concerned about the treatment of Islamist terrorists in Guantanamo.

Category: Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War