The story of the release of Ingrid Betancourt from the FARC rebels in Colombia has so many seemingly parallels to a well plotted, and shot at some studio in hollywood. I would not be surprised if some of the actions and strategies used to free the hostages as explained in the international media would have been deemed too fictitious had they been part of a screen play. But as far as we know this seems to have been a real life drama. However what probably is mind boggling for some is the reasons given for not killing any of the 60 rebels even though they could have supposedly done this quite easily basing on how things proceeded. The army colonal quoted on CNN.com said: "Colombian soldiers could have killed nearly 60 FARC members at the site of the planned handover,....We preferred to leave them with liberty and life because, in Colombia, we prefer life over death,". If that is a sincere depiction of facts well done all who participated in such a decision. A rare ex