Colombia: October 20, 2000

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  The army is assembling a force of 1,600 elite counter-insurgency and special forces units to counter-attack FARC rebels rampaging through the border area with Panama.  Over a hundred have died in the last few days of fighting in the region, about have government troops and half rebels.   

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