Some of the best news this past week came out of Colombia, where Government agents posing as rebels tricked actual rebels into freeing 15 hostages, including Ingrid Betancourt, three American contractors and 11 Colombian police and military personnel. This really was some amazing work on the part of the Colombian military:
The agents gained the rebels’ trust and rose to the top of FARC’s leadership council as well as a team assigned to guard the hostages.
When the time was ripe, the moles used the authority they’d gained within the group to order the 15 hostages moved from three separate locations to one central area, and the game was on.
Incredibly, the entire mission was carried out without a shot fired. The agents led their rebel counterparts to believe the helicopter coming to rescue the hostages was an “international mission” like the Red Cross. They loaded up the hostages, convinced the other rebels to lay down their arms, and then arrested the men and got the hostages out. Fact is, you don’t hear many stories like this, that end so well.
In other news, an Arab Israeli ran a front end loader into a bus in Jerusalem killing several people and wounding many more. His family has said he was not involved in politics, and that the apparent terrorist attack was actually just a guy who lost his cool. It looks as though, perhaps, he was involved in criminal rather than political disputes.
E.D. is a writer and the editor in chief at NeoConstant. He works and writes in Arizona where he lives with his wife and daughter. He also writes at 
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