Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged her children for the first time in six years Thursday at a teary reunion in Colombia's capital, Bogota. - Betancourt, a dual French-Colombian citizen, raced up the stairs toward the door of a French government plane and threw her arms around her children, Lorenzo, 19, and Melanie, 22, who arrived on a flight from Paris. - "Nirvana, paradise - that must be very similar to what I feel at this moment," Betancourt told reporters as she fought back tears and her son bent over to kiss her. - "The last time I saw my son, Lorenzo was a little kid and I could carry him around," she said. "I told them, they're going to have to put up with me now, because I'm going to be stuck to them like chewing gum." - Betancourt and three Americans were among a group of 15 hostages freed when Colombian military agents posing as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) duped the rebel group Wednesday. - Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, plans to fly to France to meet President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy's office said Betancourt would arrive in Paris on Friday. French people 'our support, our light' - "I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him all the French people - that they were our support, our light," Betancourt said in an interview with the Colombian television station RCN early Thursday. "It's time for me to thank the French, to tell them I admire them, that I feel proud to be French as well." Betancourt grew up in Paris. - France played a key role in raising awareness about Betancourt's plight and sent a humanitarian mission in a failed rescue attempt earlier this year. - She had become a cause célèbre across Europe, and Sarkozy had made Betancourt's liberation a priority of state. - "The first words I say to her will be how happy we are," Sarkozy said in a statement issued late Wednesday night. He...
Rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged her children for the first time in six years Thursday at a ...
