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                FARC Releases American Held Hostage For 4 Months

   by VOA News

   Colombia's largest rebel group has released a U.S. citizen it held
   hostage for more than four months.

   The guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or
   FARC, turned over American Kevin Scott Sutay to an international
   delegation in a rural area of southeastern Colombia.

   The head of the Red Cross in Colombia, Jordi Raich, said a doctor
   examined Sutay and determined that he was in good health and able to
   travel.

   "Well, the liberation of the US citizen started this morning... In a
   rural area in Guaviare, he was turned over to the Red Cross and to a
   humanitarian committee. The U.S. citizen was later transported by
   helicopter, as we always do, from San Jose del Guaviare where he was
   then transported to Bogota," said Raich.

   Sutay was kidnapped in mid-June while traveling in an area where the
   FARC is active. News reports said that local authorities had warned him
   not to remain in the area.
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