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Bogota  - A Colombian politician held hostage by leftist rebels is not set to be released before Tuesday despite earlier plans that he might be free again Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.

However, the Red Cross noted that plans for the release of Alan Jara, a former governor of the central Colombian province of Meta, and that of former regional legislator Sigifredo Lopez continue, after the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) offered to free them.

Bogota - A car-bomb attack that killed two people and left 15 others injured was planted by leftist rebels, Mayor Jorge Ospina of the Colombian city of Cali said Monday.

General Gustavo Ricaurte, the Cali police commander, directly blamed "FARC terrorists" for the attack that happened late Sunday.

Just hours earlier, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had freed four hostages, fulfilling the Marxist insurgent group's promise of a unilateral release.

Bogota  - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe backtracked Monday and authorized opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba to be part of a mission that is set to go in search of two further hostages that leftist rebels plan to release.

In a highly controversial decision, Uribe had originally decided to prevent the group Colombians For Peace - made up of journalists, politicians and academics and led by Cordoba - from taking part in any releases after comments made by members accused the Colombian Armed Forces of coming close to frustrating other releases Sunday.

Bogota  - The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) freed four hostages Sunday, fulfilling the Marxist insurgent group's promise of a unilateral release.

The three police officers and one soldier, who had been held since 2007, were handed over by FARC members to the International Committee of the Red Cross in jungles in southern Colombia.

No ransoms were paid or other concessions made for the captives, apparently.

Bogota  - Colombia's leftist rebels are to set free on Sunday two of six captives who are part of a previously announced unilateral hostage release, an opposition senator said.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will release four other hostages, on two later occasions, said Senator Piedad Cordoba of the opposition Liberal Party on Wednesday.