$100 Million US For Ingrid?

morphus says on Jun 3, 2008, 18:08:

" Poor Ingrid for sure but seems like that kind of dough could provide a heck of a lot of housing for the desplazados."

Got that right!

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rocinante says on Jun 3, 2008, 18:09:

I'd wander like a blind idiot into FARC territory if I knew I could score a cool 100 million.

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jonas says on Jun 3, 2008, 18:12:

100 million US???? I don´t think so.

What I have, I do not want to lose, but Where I am I do not want to stay, but those I love, I do not want to leave, but those I know I no longer want to see, but Where I die, I do not want to go;I want to stay where I have never been

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morphus says on Jun 3, 2008, 18:22:

100 milliones :)

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Atrevido says on Jun 3, 2008, 18:36:

"US$100 milliones" El Pais

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robi666 says on Jun 3, 2008, 19:00:

With 100 millions USD you can make the whole FARC desert. Not the bosses, who probably have got more already.

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rocinante says on Jun 3, 2008, 19:08:

Robbi, I can make the whole FARC desert for about ten grand. They like ice cream right?

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robi666 says on Jun 3, 2008, 19:15:

Really... 100,000,000 USD divided what? 3,000?
It is more than 30,000 USD each, probably more than what a poor soldier would get fighting for FARC his whole life.

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bamacellist says on Jun 3, 2008, 19:55:

Is the newspaper reporting this as fact or are you refering to reports of statements being made by Piedad Cordoba, as reported elswhere?

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Lisa Zee says on Jun 3, 2008, 21:09:

You like to start controversy R...... That is despicable, shame on you.

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eywed says on Jun 3, 2008, 21:45:

Sad state of affairs that one persons life is worth more than the others who are held. But thats life. Would be nice if that High price was for any of those held not just the one who went into harms way after being warned.

Ay Hombe!!!!!

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morphus says on Jun 4, 2008, 04:29:

I wont believe this until I see a link or PDF file.

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morphus says on Jun 4, 2008, 04:31:

I don't think Colombia would give up a 100 milllion even for Uribe.

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huskie says on Jun 4, 2008, 04:35:

That is a crock of bull.....100.000 million USD? yeah sure....
Cheers

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Atrevido says on Jun 4, 2008, 04:44:

Which begs the question: if it´s only a hundred million pesos how´s that supposed to tempt a FARC secretariat rolling in drug money. That´s just a small portion of what they ask for the average kidnap victim in other words, peanuts. Anyway that´s a direct quote from El Pais. I can´t help it if their reporters can´t convert peso/dollars.

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gorgonabob says on Jun 4, 2008, 05:21:

the facts are that the govt has established a 100 million dollar fund from which to pay rewards etc to members of the FARC that desert with their kidnapped victims. Its not just for Ingrid, get the facts straight, its for any kidnapped victim. of which there are between 1000 and 3000.... This is nothing new...100 million dollars is just a few suitcases of $100 bills.. like they found several months ago in Cali.. 20-30 million of

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Robert Jorge says on Jun 4, 2008, 09:28:

My guess is that somebody got $100,000 and $100,000,000 confused. 100 mil - 100 million.

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ColombianoGringo says on Jun 4, 2008, 09:29:

Talk about overpriced.

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bamacellist says on Jun 4, 2008, 09:44:

There may be some confusion about what is being reported. Caracol Radio featured a report where Piedad Córdoba "revealed" an under the table deal offered to vaguely (indeed laughably so) specified members of the Farc's secretariat or their intimates.

http://www.caracol.com.co/nota.aspx?id=607231

Colombiareports has taken this and turned it into a claim that there is a US$100 million offer just for Ingrid.

http://colombiareports.com/2008/06/03/government-is-trying-to-bribe-th...

I find no mention of this story at all in the the online version of El País. I don't have access to a print version here in Alabama, jeje...

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gorgonabob says on Jun 4, 2008, 10:00:

im reading El Tiempo/ El Colombiano/ Portafolio daily as well as watching the RCN news nightly and i've heard the 100 million fund talked about at least a dozen times... its really not much money...a lot cheaper than flying helicopters all around the jungle looking for a needle in a haystack

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rocinante says on Jun 4, 2008, 10:13:

colombiareports also said no more smoking in malls and airports and public enclosed places where children might go.

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bamacellist says on Jun 4, 2008, 11:38:

There is a US$100 million fund established and well publicized, but it is a general fund from which rewards are to be paid to any farcster who deserts and brings with him/her, or IIRC provides good info info regarding the whereabouts of, a hostage or hostages. This is very different from a secret US$100 million reward specifically for Ingrid which is how this post presents it and is the accusation made by Córdoba.

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Tinto (Moderator) says on Jun 4, 2008, 12:09:

If Bin Laden is worth $25-$50 million USD dead or alive to the United States, it boggles the mind to think Ingrid is worth $100 million alive to Colombia. Or maybe Sarkozy is borrowing the $100 million from Buggy's piggybank and giving it to Colombia?

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200707/...

Related note: With national newspapers already writing Sarkozy's epitaph, I wonder if Ingrid will soon fall off the French radar?

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juancegomez says on Jun 4, 2008, 12:57:

I completely agree with what bamacellist is saying.

This is nothing new, the $100 million dollar fund has been mentioned in public for some time now, but it is not only about Ingrid, as Piedad Córdoba is arguing with little more than her own opinion as backup.

If she has any other information, she should be willing to reveal it, so that we may know and debate it, instead of making accusations and speculations.

Still, I wouldn't be too surprised if the fund's creation may have tempted someone within FARC to contact the government, even if it leads nowhere or might even be a scam.

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Catfish35 says on Jun 4, 2008, 14:45:

I have a solution...instead of making the FARC desert...how about if I make the FARC dessert.
This way I can put a file, handcuff key and other escape essentials in there for Ingrid.

"So many guns, and so few brains". sam spade

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Robert Jorge says on Jun 4, 2008, 18:24:

Has anybody else thought about how a FARC turncoat would receive these funds? Can they open up an account at BancoColombia and have it wired in? How do they get their cedula? Will the government have the payment in cash delivered? These rewards are a bunch of crap, in my opinion.

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bamacellist says on Jun 4, 2008, 19:53:

I suppose for some it would be just like the current reintegration program with this additional benefit. Why would you suggest the money would make it any more difficult? For others, there is the offer to send them to France. In either case, I'm not seeing any reason why transfering these funds couldn't be a fairly straightforward process once elegibility has been established.

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dwmte7 says on Jun 6, 2008, 07:46:

well, robert, how do they get it? they simply go past "GO", collect their spoils and don't go to "JAIL".

oh, by the way, i don't think it's "crap", rather, that ole filthy lucre.............

dwmte

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Mr. Hollywood says on Jun 6, 2008, 10:15:

I'm sorry but does anyone believe this is anything but gaslighting designed to further confuse and disorient the remaining FARC leaders? And Cordoba is even playing into it.

The $100 million fund has been around for a long time. NOBODY is going to get the whole fund for delivering Ingrid, even if they showed up with her in a taxi outside the presidential palace. But all these rumors will trickle down to the people in the jungle actually watching over the captives, and someone is going to take the bait, just like they already did with information on Reyes and Rios.

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Sam Salmon says on Jun 6, 2008, 10:20:

"does anyone believe this is anything but gaslighting designed to further confuse and disorient the remaining FARC leaders? And Cordoba is even playing into it."

Yes it's part of the propaganda war that the Govt is playing-now that FARC is down for the count kick them as hard and as often as possible in as many ways as possible.

' a la orden!'

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