1.   Analysts point out that internecine conflicts over ideology and strategy kept the Colombian rebels from forging a single, potent insurgency that might have threatened the Bogota government.

2.   Another Colombian rebel group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, routinely bombs oil pipelines.

3.   But the line between counter-drug and counterinsurgency aid often blurs because Colombian rebels earn millions of dollars annually by taxing and protecting drug farmers and traffickers.

4.   Colombian rebels announced on Sunday that they would peacefully withdraw from five towns that the government handed over as a safe haven for peace talks.

5.   Colombian rebel commanders have been allowed to speak in the National Assembly chambers in Caracas.

6.   Colombian rebels have blown up a oil pipeline, disrupting production by the U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Corp., a spokesman said.

7.   Colombian rebels have launched an unprecedented series of attacks on military facilities, transport trucks and oil pipelines in recent weeks, prompting demand for increased military funding.

8.   Ecuador is expected to resume pumping oil through Colombia today after a three-day suspension that followed a Colombian rebel dynamite attack, state oil company Petroecuador said.

9.   For five years, three determined women have hoped and prayed for the safe return of their husbands, Florida-based missionaries presumably kidnapped by Colombian rebels.

10.   Four armed men, working for Colombian rebels, took him to the Colombian border.