A dozen members of a Colombian group called the 57th Front have been charged with conspiring to aid a foreign terrorist group and taking a U.S. citizen hostage last year in Panama, authorities announced. Prosecutors said only two of the defendants are in custody. The rest are fugitives.
An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan accused six defendants of aiding Colombia's rebel army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which the U.S. government considers a terrorist group.
