Suzie
12-01-2002, 04:18 PM
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Near-Naked Women Won't Be Drafted in Colombian War
Sun December 1, 2002 10:38 AM ET
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Busty, bikini-clad models won't be air-dropped into Colombia's combat zones, after all.
The war-torn Andean nation's first female defense minister, Marta Lucia Ramirez, canceled the army's campaign to seduce Marxist rebel defectors with pictures of near-naked women.
In the thousands of pocket-sized portraits already printed, and waiting to be air-dropped over battlefields, the voluptuous vixens were presented as a perk for desertion.
"Desert! And obtain benefits," read one pamphlet, depicting a brunette stretching provocatively in a striped bikini.
An army officer, who declined to be named, said the portraits were taken from an Internet porn site.
"I, as a woman, add myself to this protest. I also don't like
MORE HERE (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=183 1435)
Near-Naked Women Won't Be Drafted in Colombian War
Sun December 1, 2002 10:38 AM ET
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Busty, bikini-clad models won't be air-dropped into Colombia's combat zones, after all.
The war-torn Andean nation's first female defense minister, Marta Lucia Ramirez, canceled the army's campaign to seduce Marxist rebel defectors with pictures of near-naked women.
In the thousands of pocket-sized portraits already printed, and waiting to be air-dropped over battlefields, the voluptuous vixens were presented as a perk for desertion.
"Desert! And obtain benefits," read one pamphlet, depicting a brunette stretching provocatively in a striped bikini.
An army officer, who declined to be named, said the portraits were taken from an Internet porn site.
"I, as a woman, add myself to this protest. I also don't like
MORE HERE (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=183 1435)