Reuters astonishes with Near-Naked Women Won't Be Drafted in Colombian War:
Busty, bikini-clad models won't be air-dropped into Colombia's combat zones, after all.Rules of engagement for the battle of the sexes? What a hoot! However, www.farc-ep.org is now defunct so we can't get the details.
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 these calendars," said Ramirez, herself a former teenage covergirl, who modeled fully dressed for a glossy Colombian magazine while she was in college.
Ramirez told local press the posters did not fit within the government's concept of "rehabilitating these boys, re-socializing them, and making them useful to society."
Of Colombia's more than 20,000 Marxist rebels, about 70 percent are men -- stacking the odds against the male fighters, many of whom are still in their teens.
To have sexual relations with a female rebel, male guerrillas must first ask permission from higher-ranking officers. The rules of engagement are painstakingly detailed on the Web site, www.farc-ep.org, of the country's largest rebel army, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
