Anti-drugs flights resume over Colombia
Drug surveillance flights, suspended two years ago after a missionary plane was mistakenly shot down, will resume over Colombia within days, the US and Colombian defence chiefs said.
At a joint news conference with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, defence minister Marta Lucia Ramirez said that she expected the surveillance flights to resume within three days.
The White House announced that US President George W Bush had approved the plan, which Mr Rumsfeld said would make it harder for traffickers in drugs and guns to escape detection.
