Word: farce
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...series of air raids in Gaza, while three Israeli soldiers died in a shooting and grenade attack by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The latter assault came on the heels of an agreement by leaders of the two main Palestinian Muslim militant groups, meeting in Syria, to coordinate their attacks. FARC Takes a Hit COLOMBIA The second-ranking leader of an élite unit of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was killed in a gun battle that military officials called a major blow to the group. Edgar Gustavo Navarro is said to have been behind the capture...
...Blame Us COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) denied it was holding eight tourists kidnapped two weeks ago while trekking in a northern mountain range, as thousands of soldiers searched the notoriously dangerous region. FARC regularly kidnaps foreigners for ransom; it is currently holding more than 70 people, including three Americans. Two other rebel groups operate in the area...
...State Department report documented that during the previous year, “The Cuban Government continued to allow at least 20 Basque ETA members to reside in Cuba as privileged guests and provided some degree of safe haven and support to members of the Colombian FARC and ELN groups...
...same report also noted: “In August [2001], a Cuban spokesman revealed that Sinn Fein’s official representative for Cuba and Latin America, Niall Connolly, who was one of three Irish Republican Army members arrested in Colombia on suspicion of providing explosives training to the FARC, had been based in Cuba for five years.” Connolly had been on the payroll of the island’s Communist party...
...club, Eliodoro Londoño straightened his power suit and tried to hide his feelings of powerlessness. Londoño, 47, a telecom executive and El Nogal member, lost friends and colleagues on the night of Feb. 7, when a 200-kg car bomb planted by Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas ripped through the club's 11 stories, killing 35 people - including six children at a piñata party - and injuring 173. The El Nogal blast was the most devastating attack of the rebels' new urban terror campaign and the first to hit the capital's élite. Londo...