Colombian rebel leader found guilty of conspiracy

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Source: Reuters

Colombian rebel leader found guilty of conspiracy
Mon Jul 9, 2007 6:54PM EDT

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Colombian rebel leader was
convicted on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in
connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors
in 2003.

Ricardo Palmera, the most senior leader of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia to go on trial in the United States,
was found guilty on the one count by a federal jury.

The judge instructed the jury to keep deliberating and try to
reach a verdict on four other counts of hostage-taking and
providing material support to a terrorist group.

The U.S. government has designated the group, known as
FARC, as a foreign terrorist organization. FARC rebels have
been fighting for socialist revolution since 1964.

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