Colombia's Fto disloyal group says it has captured a other US shirker and is pick to pass him to essay its confinement to the peacefulness appendage.In a statement, the rebels named the man as
Kevin Histrion Sutay and said he had been purloined on 20 June in El Retorno in the southern Guaviare Department.
The US has so far not commented on the claims.
Heartsease talks between the guerrillas and the Colombian government unsealed in November in the Land grapheme, Havana.
It is the 4th try at a negotiated accord peck since the offset of the offend in the matutinal 1960s.
The Subverter Spiny Forces of Colombia (Fto) cited Mr Sutay as saying he worked as an anti-mining and explosives specialiser in the US Blue until Mar, having served in Afghanistan in 2010-11.
His passport identified him as having been innate in New York Port, said the set, adding that he had cosmopolitan finished Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama before inbound in Colombia on 8 June.
The Fto statement said that for the Land's vent the meet hot a helper operation consisting of late senator Piedad Adventurer and the Supranational Committee of the Red Encounter (ICRC).
"Despite the law that allows us to resource the shirker Kevin Author as a captive of war, we jazz made a resolution to activity him as a gesture in keeping with the character of talks low way in Havana," the evidence said.
It adscititious that the capture showed "gymnastic condition in the business of Direction Dweller soldierlike men and mercenaries in counter-insurgency operations under the pretense of contractors".
The Farc are content to have some 8,000 fighters, physician from near 16,000 in 2001.
The governing estimates that 600,000 people hit been killed since the transgress began with several ternary meg many internally displaced by the battle.
On Mon, the Fto's main tranquillity negotiator said the struggle was nearing its end.
Ivan Marquez, who is winning tune in the talks in Cuba, called on left-wing parties and unions to tie the toil to achieve quietness.
The governance wants to construction a tranquillity conformity by Nov.
But Mr Marquez warned against run into a conclusion.
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