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Colombian rebel extradited

BOGOTA: The topMarxist rebel, Ricardo Palmera (in the picture), was extradited to the United States on Friday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face U.S. drug and terrorism charges, officials said. Army commandos with assault rifles and U.S. agents escorted Palmera, wearing handcuffs and a bullet-proof jacket, to a U.S. Government plane at a military airfield outside Bogota. The plane took off minutes later. The Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe, had given the FARC until Thursday to free 63 hostages or see Palmera, a former FARC negotiator known by the alias Simon Trinidad, stand trial in a U.S. federal court in Washington. The FARC never responded to the ultimatum.

— AP

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