Ex-hostage Betancourt urges toning down of 'hate' speech toward rebels

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

PARIS -- Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt urged Colombia's president and others in the South American nation Monday to tone down their "radical, extremist language of hate" toward the leftist rebels who held her captive for six years.

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