Families of abducted contractors eagerly await word

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Families of abducted contractors eagerly await word
By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, April 27, 2008

MIAMI — SOUTHCOM officials say rescuing the three U.S. hostages in Columbia remains a top priority, but families of the men say they’re frustrated by the lack of progress.

“They really haven’t gotten anything done in five years,” said George Gonsalves, father of contractor Marc Gonsalves. “We know the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), but we can’t seem to do anything about it. It’s really an embarrassment.”

The three contractors — Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell — were captured by the FARC in February 2003 when their plane crashed in the jungle during a counternarcotics mission.

The three, all veterans, are the longest-held U.S. hostages anywhere in the world.

U.S. military officials said pilot Thomas Janis, another American contractor, and Colombian Army Sgt. Luis Alcides Cruz survived the crash but were found shot to death; the circumstances remain unclear.


Rest of Southcom article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54351



uhc comment: These fuckers haven't done anything in five fucking years and now this is a story?