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.