41.   A report released this month by U.S.-based Human Rights Watch found evidence of collaboration between the AUC and three Colombian army brigades.

42.   All four states have been targets of the fumigation campaign conducted by the Colombian army.

43.   As part of the plan, the United States has provided dozens of helicopters and U.S. special forces have trained a brigade of Colombian army counternarcotics troops.

44.   But such assistance could also help the Colombian army push the guerrillas nearer to a settlement.

45.   But the Colombian army has often been guilty of its own human rights violations.

46.   Colombian army troops were on alert near a rebel safe haven Wednesday and more reinforcements poured in, just days before the scheduled end to the so-called demilitarized zone.

47.   Colombian army troops were waiting at bases outside the Switzerland-sized safe haven, given to the rebels as a condition of the peace talks three years ago.

48.   Foreign oil companies help pay Colombian army units to protect their installations, but they have denied any links to paramilitary death squads.

49.   Gen. Jorge Mora, chief of the Colombian army, said he was pleased with the EU decision.

50.   Half of those were from the FARC, the rest from the Colombian army, a smaller rebel group, and a right-wing paramilitary group.