61.   Gen. Hector Fabio Velasco, the commander of the air force, said the hijacker was a leftist guerrilla.

62.   Gen. Hector Fabio Velasco, the commander of the air force, said the hijacker was a disaffected FARC rebel who wanted to go to Europe.

63.   Gulf Air said the would-be hijacker was an Iraqi.

64.   Gilibert, the police chief, said the hijacker is a FARC rebel who was serving a jail sentence in Bogota for killing a police officer.

65.   He said he had no information on who the hijackers were or whether they were armed.

66.   He speculated that the hijackers may have been members of one of several smaller groups that have emerged in recent months.

67.   Hotel manager Bruce Thomson said survivors told him two hijackers with bombs were on the plane and a third was apparently in the hold.

68.   If the hijacker is alone or has few accomplices, and does not have a potent weapon, history shows Japanese police can probably handle the job.

69.   In February, the hijacker was a man claiming to have a teddy bear packed with explosives.

70.   In India, Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said the hijackers were Pakistani citizens who had fled to the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.