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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Soldiers freed two high-ranking police officers and an army sergeant Sunday who were among Colombia’s longest- held rebel captives in a raid in southern jungles.
President Alvaro Uribe announced the rescue of police Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo, both captured by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in a November 1998 siege of the remote eastern provincial capital of Mitu. Also freed was soldier Arbey Delgado, who had been held since August 1998.
