Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release

Ingrid Betancourt arrived in France today after being held captive for six years in the Colombian jungle, amid claims that a ransom was paid to free her.The Colombian government said that she was freed in an audacious operation after the military tricked Farc into handing the French-Colombian politician over without a shot being fired.http://ping.fm/5LDAIIf Betancourt's assertions are true, then the United States is once again responsible (at least in part) for the setting up of false 'heroic rescues' and similar phenomena. We should not forget that intitial reports from Iraq claimed that Kurdish forces captured Saddam Hussein, who then turned him over to Coalition forces. Neither should we forget the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch affairs.