iht.com
06-Jul-2008
The Colombian fiancee of freed U.S. hostage Keith Stansell has traveled to meet him in Texas along with their 5-year-old twin boys, who will see their father for the first time. Patricia Medina told Colombia's RCN Radio in an interview broadcast Saturday that she and Stansell plan to get married. She spoke before leaving Colombia Friday for San Antonio, Texas, where he and two other Americans were taken after Colombia's military rescued them from rebels. Medina was pregnant when the U.S. defense contractor's drug-surveillance plane went down in Colombia's southern jungle in February 2003. He later learned in captivity that she had given birth to twins, Nicolas and Keith. "We're going to organize the wedding," Medina said. "We talked to Keith last night. He talked with the boys." She said Stansell told her "he's super happy,...
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