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Hostage ruse's fake Web site irks group with similar name
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:30:33 -0400
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/18/colombia.website/index.html Hostage ruse's fake Web site irks group with similar name BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Colombian military intelligence apparently set up a Web site for a fake humanitarian group as part of a ruse to dupe leftist rebels into giving up 15 hostages this month. Colombia's Defense Ministry did not respond to CNN's requests for comment about the counterfeit organization and its Web site. However, a Bogota college student who said he registered the domain name and hosted the site through his company said he was surprised to learn of the site's purpose. Mision Humanitaria Internacional's Web site popped up a few days before the July 2 mission to rescue the hostages held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC <http://topics.cnn.com/topics/FARC> , in the jungles of Colombia. The organization was based in Barcelona, Spain, and had been founded in 1999 "to improve the processes of development to guarantee equality of opportunity for individuals and peoples," according to informational pages posted on the site. Video <http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif> Watch <http://cnn.site.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Hostage+ ruse%27s+fake+Web+site+irks+group+with+similar+name+-+CNN.com&expire=-1&urlI D=29832909&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2008%2FWORLD%2Famericas%2F07% 2F18%2Fcolombia.website%2Findex.html&partnerID=211911#cnnSTCVideo> how another group's emblem may have been misused > Spanish-language news articles and press releases from the last nine years filled some of the site's pages. The organization's logo -- a stylized red bird on a white background in the centermost of three concentric circles, with blue leaves on white in the middle circle and the organization's name on a blue background in the outermost circle -- is featured prominently throughout the site. That same logo was pasted on the side of a helicopter used on the rescue mission that brought former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three American contractors and 11 Colombian police and soldiers back from the jungle, according to unpublished video shown to CNN by a military source who had been looking to sell the material. ...
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