According to a December report by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris NGO, 473 FARC-EP guerrillas and 357 members of the Colombian security forces died in combat between January and September 2010.

According to Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, FARC-EP killed 429 members of the Colombian government's security forces between January and October 2011.

According to the Colombian military, this same unit remained in the area for 43 days and did not find the captives until they accidentally ran into the FARC camp on the way back, which led to a shootout.

According to Amnesty International, both civilian women and female combatants have been sexually exploited or victimized by all of the different parties involved in the Colombian armed conflict.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

According to experts interviewed by W Radio Colombia, the animals could survive in the Colombian jungles.

According to Medios para la Paz, a group founded by Colombian journalists, Colombian guerrilla groups kidnapped a total of 1, 000 people, ( 300 a year, 25 a month ) in the Cesar Department, between 2000 and 2003.

According to the Colombian Constitution of 1991 the executive power for this region will be vested in a single individual elected by popular vote ( starting from 1991, governors were previously appointed by the President of Colombia ) and will be called Governor of the Córdoba Department.

According to the Colombian Constitution, 100 senators ( senador ( es )) are elected from a single national candidate list.

According to the Colombian Constitution, every department is an electoral circumscription.

According to the Colombian Constitution of 1991, 100 senators ( senadores ) are elected from a single national candidate list.

According to the Colombian Constitution, every department is an electoral administrative division.

According to Claudia Calle, spokesperson for País Libre, a Colombian foundation for victims of abductions, the ELN is responsible for the death of 153 hostages between 2000 and 2007.

According to recent news reports in Colombia and the US, he has begun importing a native Colombian drink, known locally as aguardiente, to the US under the name of Petro.

According to the trial testimony, four of these Colombian drug traffickers were robbed of their cocaine and brutally murdered in July 1989 by Miller, Arroyo, Hale, Hunt, and Jimenez.

According to Chávez and his supporters, the capture of several dozen individuals in May 2004 and other developments prove the existence of the purported coup plot, while the anti-Chávez opposition discounts the notion that any deeper meaning can be imputed to the raid and capture of the Colombian detainees or to other events.

According to opposition spokespersons and some of the people arrested, many of the Colombian nationals were merely unemployed and impoverished peasants.

According to the indictment, members of the Norte del Valle cartel even conducted their own wiretaps in Colombia to intercept the communications of rival drug traffickers and Colombian and United States law enforcement officials.

According to documents released to the public by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) in 2008, " Colombian National Police director General Miguel Antonio Gómez Padilla said ' that he had directed a senior CNP intelligence officer to maintain contact with Fidel Castano, paramilitary leader of Los Pepes, for the purposes of intelligence collection.

According to its supporters, the European rhythms such as " Fandango " and " Cashuas " led to the creation of the Chilean Sajuriana, the Venezuelan Zambo, the Argentine Cielo Gaucho, the Mexican Tas-be, the Colombian Bambuco, the Ecuadorian Amor Fino, and the Peruvian Toro Mata.

According to Ana Carrigan's 1993 book The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy, Supreme Court Chief Justice Alfonso Reyes was apparently burned alive during the assault, as someone incinerated his body after pouring gasoline over it.

According to the FARC, they invite all the Colombian women to join in what they consider as their struggle against the injustices of society.

According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to Suetonius, the imperial bureaucracy never ran more efficiently than under Domitian, whose exacting standards and suspicious nature maintained historically low corruption among provincial governors and elected officials.

According to security officials, the man was planning attacks for Hezbollah in Cyprus and admitted this after questioning.

According to officials, he had been killed soon after the abduction.

According to SB 1070, law-enforcement officials may not consider “ race, color, or national origin ” in the enforcement of the law, except under the circumstances allowed under the United States and Arizona constitutions.

According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U. S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.

According to POLISARIO officials,

According to the Los Angeles Times article, " The agency also asked the dozens of families that contacted officials to look for signs of disturbances -- shifted or cracked gravestones or anything else that appeared different from previous visits -- and didn ’ t receive a single call back, he said ".

According to him, officials generally agree that some kind of planned sex education is necessary.

According to local residents and unnamed American and Yemeni government officials, on 14 July 2011 US manned aircraft or drones attacked and destroyed a police station in Mudiya in Abyan Province which had been occupied by al Qaeda militants.

According to Yemeni officials as reported in the Long War Journal, US airstrikes in southeast Abyan province on 30 August to 1 September 2011 killed 30 AQAP militants.

According to Yemeni government officials, a US airstrike on 14 October 2011 killed seven AQAP militants, including Egyptian-born Ibrahim al-Bana, AQAP's media chief.

According to the charges, the bribes were frequently made by over-invoicing customers and paying the excess back to top government officials or their proxies.

According to an historical narrative on the event titled " Chief Left Hand ", by Margaret Coel, contributing factors that led to the massacre were: Governor Evans ' desire to hold title to the resource rich Denver-Boulder area ; government trust officials ' avoidance of Chief Left Hand ( a linguistically gifted Southern Arapaho chief ), when executing a legal treaty that transferred title of the area away from Indian Trust ; a local cavalry stretched thin by the demands of the Civil War ; the hijacking of their supplies by a few stray Indian warriors who had lost respect for their chiefs and followers of Chief Left Hand ( including a group of Cheyenne and Arapaho elders, a few well behaved warriors, and mostly women and children ), who had received a message to report to Fort Lyon with the promise of safety and food at the Fort, or risk being considered " hostile " and ordered killed by the cavalry.

According to an article in The New York Times: " What the Tony broadcast does have, say CBS officials, is an all-important demographic: rich and smart.

According to the cables, the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Korea was told by the two Chinese officials that Korea should be reunified under South Korean rule, and that this opinion was gaining ground among Chinese leaders.

According to intelligence officials, the view of government historians that the report should become public was rebuffed by policymakers concerned that comparisons might be made to intelligence used to justify the Iraq War ( Operation Iraqi Freedom ) that commenced in 2003.

According to documents and interviews with federal officials, investigators and targets of the sanctions, the U. S. government:

According to the UNDP, Algeria has one of the world's highest per housing unit occupancy rates for housing, and government officials have publicly stated that the country has an immediate shortfall of 1. 5 million housing units.

According to published transcripts of Johnson's presidential phone conversations, some major officials were opposed to forming such a commission and several commission members took part only with extreme reluctance.

According to Kurdish Intelligence officials, Yassin Jarad, allegedly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law, carried out the car bombing.

According to the report, eight officials accepted gifts from energy companies whose value exceeded limits set by ethics rules — including golf, ski, and paintball outings ; meals ; drinks ; and tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game, and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.

The investigation also concluded that several of the officials “ frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives .” According to the New York Times, " The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration ’ s watch.

According to the 9 / 11 Commission, this refusal of a visa was motivated by general concern by U. S. officials that people from Yemen would illegally overstay their visit and seek work in the United States.