Colombian rebels deny plan to kill Bush

Colombia’s main Marxist rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, denied it had a plan to kill US President George Bush during a recent state visit.

“We, the FARC, categorically deny the slanderous affirmations of the US intelligence services accusing us of a supposed plan to eliminate presidents Bush and Alvaro Uribe of Colombia,” the rebels said in a statement posted on a website closely tied to the FARC.

Unnamed US intelligence officials said in published reports last week that the FARC had planned some type of attack during Bush’s visit in the seaside city of Cartagena on November 22, where he met with Uribe.