(21 Nov 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Various of alleged FARC members being escorted by Colombian police
2. Wide of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) General Luis Gomes Heredia, Operations Director, Colombian National Police:
"The operation enabled us to capture 18 individuals from the (FARC's) 6th Teofilo Forero unit. These people presumably have to respond to the charges brought against them, from aggravated homicide, intent to to commit a felony, illegal carrying of fire arms, rebellion and kidnapping charges."
4. Cutaway video camera
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) General Luis Gomes Heredia, Operations Director, Colombian National Police:
"We have been able during the last few hours to apparently point to one of the people responsible for the death in 2003 of an army sub-officer and an American when their plane crash-landed."
6. Wide of captured men and women presented to media
7. Mid of captured women
8. Close up of hands in hand-cuffs, zoom out
9. Mid of captured women
10. Mid of captured
11. Mid of captured men and women escorted out from media presentation by police
STORYLINE:
Colombian police on Monday paraded 18 alleged operatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in front of the media, who were captured over the weekend in the southern departments (states) of Villavicencio, Huila and Caqueta.
The arrested men are believed to be from the FARC's Teofilo Forero front.
The Teofilo Forero unit has been blamed in the past for several attacks in the capital, Bogota, including the bombing of an exclusive social club in 2003 that killed 36 people and injured 160 others.
The alleged FARC rebels are also accused of the killing in 2005 of six city councils in the region, the bombing of a residence in San Vicente del Caguan, and an attack on 10 vehicles during a cease-fire decreed by the FARC before national legislative elections last March (2005), authorities said.
Colombian National Police Operations Director, General Luis Gomes Heredia, said one of the captured rebels was allegedly linked to the 2003 killing of a Colombian army sub-officer (non-commissioned) and an American national when their plane crash-landed in rebel territory in southern Colombia.
The FARC has been trying to overthrow Colombia's government for more than four decades.
The UN estimates that about 3 million Colombians have been displaced by the four-decade conflict between leftist rebels, the government and far-right paramilitaries, more than any other country except Sudan.
The government puts their number at fewer than 2 million.
Colombia's civil war pits leftist rebels against the government and outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups.
Some 3,500 people, mainly civilians, die in the fighting each year.
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