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And in this operation, which they call Jaque, which means "check," as in check on the chess board, he outsmarted all of them and came out an incredible hero.
March to the Middle 2008
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Juan Manuel Santos, fifteen hostages being held for six years by the The operation was called Jaque by the Colombian Army.
Formae Mentis NGO™ 2009
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Juan Manuel Santos, fifteen hostages being held for six years by the The operation was called Jaque by the Colombian Army.
Formae Mentis NGO™ 2009
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Juan Manuel Santos, fifteen hostages being held for six years by the The operation was called Jaque by the Colombian Army.
Formae Mentis NGO™ 2009
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Jaquelin "Jaque" Robertson founder of the New York City Urban Design Group, former Dean of the University of Virginia's School of Architecture, and former advisor to former New York Mayor John Lindsay;
Transit Miami Gabriel Lopez-Bernal 2008
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In an editorial regarding gun ownership in both the U.S. and Mexico, Jaque Mate writes on the editorial page of Guadalajara´s MURAL for April 18 a rather lengthy editorial piece (Mexican newspapers are given to much more longer winded editorials than U.S. papers so I seldom wade through them) on the subject.
guns 2007
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Operation Jaque (in English “check,” as in checkmate) was conceived by Colombian Army officers and members of military intelligence who had penetrated the highest command centers of the farc.
Inside Colombia's Hostage War Orth, Maureen 2008
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Jaque was so secret and compartmentalized that only a few people knew all the details.
Inside Colombia's Hostage War Orth, Maureen 2008
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The nine commandos and five pilots involved in Jaque had all taken acting lessons and had received scripts to memorize — not only so that they would be credible at the scene of the rescue, which was timed to last seven minutes, but also so that in the event of their capture they would have fictitious life stories to tell the farc.
Inside Colombia's Hostage War Orth, Maureen 2008
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The film will focus on Operation Jaque, a five-year plan to locate and rescue three Americans who had been captured in 2003 by Colombian guerilla group FARC.
Today on Screenhead 2008
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