1. 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. 2. Ecopetrol said the dynamite attack late Sunday targeted the Vasconia pipeline, which runs from central Colombia to the Caribbean port of Covenas. 3. Ecopetrol, the state oil company, blamed the National Liberation Army, a rebel group that has targeted the oil industry with dynamite attacks for a decade. 4. Felled electrical towers, a dynamite attack on a water reservoir and threats to close major roads in the South American nation are all part of the onslaught. 5. Five other soldiers were wounded in the dynamite attack on two army vehicles. 6. In El Salvador, President Armando Calderon Sol told a television station Friday night that the FBI would sent agents to help investigate two dynamite attacks in the capital. 7. It was the first dynamite attack on the pipeline this year. 8. Leftist rebels on Sunday shot down a helicopter transporting soldiers to the site of a dynamite attack on an oil pipeline, the army said. 9. Rebels, who say they fight for the poor, often target police and soldiers with ambushes and dynamite attacks. 10. The ELN mounted five dynamite attacks Tuesday against Cano-Limon-Covenas pipeline, which has been shut down while repairs are made. |