Colombia: August 19, 2001

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Some 4,000 army troops, with helicopter support, have attacked FARC units in the southeast. So far, 20 rebels and three soldiers have died. One of the rebels was a senior leader (Octavio Salamanca, known as "Urias") who was to be the next military chief of FARC. 

 

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