Dutch Woman Indicted in U.S. for Kidnapping Americans With Colombia Rebels

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A Dutch national and member of Colombia’s biggest guerrilla group was indicted on terrorism and weapons charges by a U.S. federal grand jury in Washington.

Tanja Nijmeijer, who joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 2002, and 17 other members of the group known as FARC were charged for their involvement in the kidnapping of three U.S. citizens, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

The 32-year-old Nijmeijer gained notoriety in Colombia after her personal diary was recovered following a military raid in 2007. In it, she complains of disillusionment with rebel commanders’ machismo and hypocrisy, as well as sexual promiscuity within rebel ranks.

“How will it be when we take power?,” she wrote in one entry. “The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?”

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