This Sept 19, 2008 file photo shows Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, center, meeting with the three Americans who were held hostage for more than five years by a FARC. guerilla group in Columbia, from left, Patricia Medina, Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes, Jo Rosano (Gonsalves mother) and Marc Gonsalves, at the Colombian embassy in Washington. A memoir of their 1,967 days as rebel hostages titled "Out of Captivity" is being released Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)From AP:
BOGOTA (AP) — A memoir by three Americans held captive by Colombia's leftist rebels for 5 1/2 years is anything but flattering to Ingrid Betancourt, the most famous hostage who shared their jungle cavalry.
The chronicle of the U.S. military contractors' 1,967 days as rebel captives is a striking survival tale, describing their pain and perseverance, mind-numbing boredom in jungle cages, forced marches in chains, close calls under fire and ultimately, a miraculous rescue.
But the most provocative revelation of "Out of Captivity" deals with Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician kidnapped a year before they were marched into the gulag they say she dominated.
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