Ecuador - US helped Colombia attack on FARC chief

Intelligence obtained by U.S. forces based in Ecuador helped Colombia's military locate the senior rebel commander killed in a cross-border raid by Colombian troops last year, a government commission said Thursday. The U.S. Embassy denied any such help was provided. The 131-page report by the special investigative commission also confirmed there are links between Colombian rebels and parts of Ecuador's government, which Colombian leaders have long charged. The report said Ecuador's then-security minister met with the rebel chief, Raul Reyes, at his camp in Ecuadorean territory three weeks before the attack of March 1, 2008. The minister, Gustavo Larrea, has denied he met inside Ecuador with Reyes, the No. 2 leader and foreign minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.