Columbian Hostages Rescued by Obama Volunteers?

A really cool rescue of some hostages, including three Americans, came in Columbia yesterday.

Some Columbian government troops infiltrated the rebel group "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (known as FARC) who had been holding several hostages for several years.

Bloomberg tells the story of how the thugs were planning to transfer the hostages to another rebel camp and placed them on a helicopter they thought was a rebel helicopter, but was instead piloted by the undercover Columbian troops.

Here is what hostage Ingrid Betancourt saw when she was handcuffed and manhandled aboard:

The T-shirts emblazoned with images of Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara convinced Ingrid Betancourt. She assumed the men with the iconic revolutionary on their chests were ushering her into the white helicopter for transfer to yet another rebel camp.

Instead, Betancourt, along with 14 other hostages, was taking her first steps toward freedom after six years of being held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Once the helicopter got out of range of the FARC camp, the undercover Columbian troops overpowered the FARC thugs who came aboard with the hostages and freed the hostages.

After the unmarked helicopter flew over the jungle and out of range of the FARC camp, the hostages saw the men in Che T- shirts spring on their captor. Gerardo Antonio Aguilar Ramirez, known by his alias as Cesar, was tied up and blindfolded. Then the Colombian troops revealed their identity.

``We are the national army, you are free!'' the six agents on board told them. ``The helicopter almost fell out of the sky because we jumped and screamed, we hugged and cried,'' Betancourt said.

What an incredible story! As others are saying, it's like something out of a movie.

I have to wonder, though. When Betancourt saw all those Che Guevara shirts on the helicopter, did it ever cross her mind that she might be taken to a Barack Obama rally?