Colombia backs plan for increasing U.S. military aid

2009/07/20 17:35:24 @Reuters: International News

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Monday defended a plan, criticized by regional leftist leaders, to allow more U.S. troops in the country, saying that aid from Washington is helping Colombia beat Marxist rebels. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=UHPSolDbIYI:nOmkGpzaIFk:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=UHPSolDbIYI:nOmkGpzaIFk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=UHPSolDbIYI:nOmkGpzaIFk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=UHPSolDbIYI:nOmkGpzaIFk:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=UHPSolDbIYI:nOmkGpzaIFk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/UHPSolDbIYI" height="1" width="1"/
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