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2003-09-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Colombia questions why kidnapped backpackers visited guerrilla area

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Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-09-17 10:47:10 AM|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Also what is the going price for a month-long ~~abduction~~ vacation in Columbia?

Depends -- are meals included?

Posted by Steve White 2003-9-17 11:14:47 AM|| 2003-9-17 11:14:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ummmmmm.... don't know. Stupid, maybe?

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-17 11:45:33 AM|| 2003-9-17 11:45:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Idoitarians. They are only "freedom" fighters. They can be reasoned with. A little bit of compassion and understanding.

Clueless

Posted by john 2003-9-17 12:25:13 PM|| 2003-9-17 12:25:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 We should send in Special Ops like in Clear and Present Danger. That should take care of them if we have a dozen teams hunting.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-17 12:43:58 PM|| 2003-9-17 12:43:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Fred---

Legume?

LOL

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-17 1:44:01 PM|| 2003-9-17 1:44:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I fully expect him to write a bestseller as soon as he gets back, and then follow it up with the movie.

Blind Optimism? Denial? Or just plain Clueless? Clearly the son takes after his father.

Posted by Becky 2003-9-17 1:56:40 PM|| 2003-9-17 1:56:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Finally found the area in my atlas. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta is a large national park about 10 miles south of the coast, and about 35 miles east of Baranquilla, a large port city on the northern coast of Colombia. There's a mountain in the center of the park, Pico Cristobol Colon (Mount Christopher Columbus) that reaches almost 19,000 feet, and would give a superb view of most ot the territorial waters of that part of Colombia. The area isn't too far from Maracaibo, Venezuela, either. From that information, I'd guess the tour group was either deliberately led there, or somehow stumbled across a guerilla resupply and surveillance route. They won't be released until (and if) the guerillas can re-route their resupply effort away from where these folks were captured.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-17 2:00:07 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-17 2:00:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Just waiting for the frustrated cries that we haven't done enough to get them free.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-17 3:11:34 PM|| 2003-9-17 3:11:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I've been to Baranquilla on business, and I kissed the ground when I landed back in Miami. I don't buy the tourist story. Baranquilla is not a tourist destination. I'm going with the "arms dealer" theory.

Posted by Tom 2003-9-17 4:14:39 PM|| 2003-9-17 4:14:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Never underestimate the stupidity of tourists. Remember the Sahara hostages?

Posted by True German Ally 2003-9-17 4:35:07 PM|| 2003-9-17 4:35:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The kids dad must be a champion idiot. What if Dad's bestseller quote gets garbled and ends up in the Colombian press as "Bestselling author kidnapped ..."

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-17 5:34:08 PM|| 2003-9-17 5:34:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 There was a Discovery chanel show a week or so ago(didn't watch).In wich a group of moutain climbers whent to Krygistan.My point:one of the climbers was bitching that the travel agent did not warn them of gurrila activity in the region.
What a maroon.

Posted by raptor 2003-9-18 8:23:06 AM|| 2003-9-18 8:23:06 AM|| Front Page Top

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