INGRID BETANCOURT: AMAZING RESCUE FOOTAGE AND VIDEOS

How Colombia freed the hostages

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* Around midday two army helicopters painted white arrived at rebel site near Ininda River, a second waited at nearby clearing as back-up.
* Undercover soldiers said hostages would be taken to another rebel leader, somewhere between La Paz and Tomachipan.
* Once on board helicopters, two rebels were overpowered, 15 hostages freed and Ingrid Betancourt eventually flown to capital Bogota.

BETANCOURT RESCUE FOOTAGE (VIDEO FROM BBC NEWS)
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INGRID BETANCOURT DESCRIBES AMAZING RESCUE

15 HOSTAGES HELD BY COLOMBIAN REBELS ARE RESCUED, JULY 2, 2008

BETANCOURT, 3 AMERICAN HOSTAGES FREED FROM FARC CAPTORS

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NOTHING will ever change my mind.

God Bless America ALWAYS! "

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WHY DID UNCLE MICHAEL JACQUES KILL BROOKE BENNETT?

Michael Stephen Jacques, 42, faces federal kidnapping charges in connection with the disappearance of his niece, 12-year-old Brooke Bennett. The girl's body was recovered Wednesday night. Her case triggered the first Amber Alert in Vermont history and may have involved an organized sex ring and premeditated attack. (Stefan Hard, Times Argus/AP Photo)

A State Trooper stands guard at the end of Crocker Road in Randolph, N.H., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Police have moved their command post from the home of Michael Jacques to a sugar house on Crocker Road as they search for a missing 12-year-old girl who has been missing since June 25, 2008. Federal officials say in court papers that Jacques, the girl's uncle, brought her home and took her upstairs to have sex her and she has not been seen since. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Vermont State Police Col. James Baker announces they have found a body they believe is 12-year-old Brooke Bennett who has been missing since June 25, 2008 in Bethel, N.H., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

E-mails Reveal Suspect's Perverted Plot
Uncle of Missing Vermont Girl Found Dead Allegedly Enlisted Teen Lover as Accomplice
By DAVID SCHOETZJuly 3, 2008

The man suspected in the death of Brooke Bennett and his teenage lover plotted together for weeks to abduct the 12-year-old Vermont girl so that she could be initiated into an organized sex ring, according to shocking federal court documents released today.

Court papers also suggest that Michael Jacques, Bennett's 42-year-old uncle who is charged with her kidnapping, may have been preparing for the likelihood that the girl would never return home.

Jacques allegedly took steps before Bennett's abduction to lure police into thinking that she had gone to meet someone she had been corresponding with online. And before Bennett's disappearance, Jacques instructed his 14-year-old female accomplice to collect semen from her boyfriend, which was later planted near Bennett's torn underwear.

The revelations, outlined in a federal criminal complaint, came a day after Vermont State Police discovered Bennett's body in a shallow grave near Jacques' Vermont home. Her disappearance had triggered the state's first Amber Alert.

Federal prosecutors allege that Jacques used a pair of online identities to manipulate his young accomplice into thinking she was working with several men who were planning to initiate Bennett into a secret sex training program called "Breckenridge."

The unnamed girl, who is a minor, repeatedly expressed her willingness to help lure Bennett into Jacques' clutches and to help subdue Bennett if necessary, according to a stream of e-mails released by investigators.

SINISTER PLOT REVEALED...
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BROOKE BENNETT MISSING: UNCLE, MICHAEL JACQUES "PERSON OF INTEREST"

BROOKE BENNETT, AGE 12, MISSING

AP
This photo, supplied by the Vermont State Police, shows Michael Jacques, 42, the uncle of Brooke Bennett, who was arrested on unrelated sex charges.

FOX44 / This image is from a surveillance video that, police say, briefly shows Brooke Bennett with her uncle before she disappeared.

Missing Girl's Uncle Named 'Person of Interest' in Her Disappearance
FOXNEWS.COM / Associated Press / Monday, June 30, 2008

CHELSEA, Vt. — A probe into the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl zeroed in Monday on her uncle's alleged involvement in a child sex ring, with police searching his home while he was being arraigned on sex charges in a case authorities said was unrelated to the missing girl.

Michael Jacques, 42, of Randolph, a registered sex offender who was one of the last people to see Brooke Bennett before she vanished, pleaded not guilty to aggravated sexual assault and was being held on $250,000 bail.

The alleged victim of the sex assaults, a relative of Jacques, told police Jacques assaulted her during a five-year period, beginning when she was 9 years old and ending a few weeks ago, Orange County State's Attorney Will Porter said.

Meanwhile, Jacques, pronounced "Jakes," was being described as "a person of interest" in last Wednesday's disappearance of Bennett. Col. James Baker, commander of the Vermont State Police, said investigators narrowed their probe and began focusing on Jacques based on information developed late Saturday and early Sunday through computer forensics.

WHERE IS BROOKE BENNETT? LAST SEEN WITH MICHAEL JACQUES...

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EVE CARSON SHOT FIVE TIMES, AUTOPSY REVEALED

Autopsy: Eve Carson was shot five times
Associated Press / Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2008

CHAPEL HILL/RALEIGH --A slain North Carolina student body president was shot five times, according to the report from the Office of the State Medical Examiner that lists her cause of death as “multiple gunshot wounds.”

The 22-year-old from Athens, Ga., was found March 5 lying on a street not far from the UNC Chapel Hill campus.

Prosecutors have charged two Durham men, Laurence Lovette, 17, and Demario Atwater, 22, with first-degree murder in her death.

Lovette’s attorney didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Monday. Atwater’s attorney, Jonathan Broun, declined to comment on the specifics of the autopsy results.

“We urge everybody not to have a rush to judgment and let the legal system play itself out,” Broun said.

The report on Carson’s death was unsealed and made public Monday, weeks after its completion. Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall had requested it remain shielded from public review so investigators could complete their work on the case.

BE WARNED THAT THE AUTOPSY RESULTS MAY BE GRAPHIC...

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