Venezuela moving tanks to Colombian border: official

Wed Mar 5, 2008 9:57am EST
 
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela has started moving ten tank battalions to the Colombian border, Venezuela's defense minister said on Wednesday, amid an escalating Andes region crisis sparked by a Colombian attack on leftist rebels in Ecuador.

(Reporting by Brian Ellsworth, editing by Vicki Allen)

 
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