Colombian Guerrilla Arrested in Costa Rica
A man accused of participating in a 2002 rebel attack that killed more than 100 civilians in one of the worst tragedies in Colombia's four-decade-old guerrilla war was captured Thursday, Costa Rica authorities said.

Hector Orlando Martinez Quinto, 38, a suspected member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),  is also accused of masterminding exchanges of arms for drugs in Central America for the rebel group.

He was detained in Cocal de Puntarenas on the Pacific coast and will be extradited to Colombia as soon as the paperwork is complete.

Martinez was on the Interpol wanted list at the request of Colombian authorities and was suspected of being in Costa Rica.  Martinez wis accused of taking part in the 2002 rebel attack in the Colombian town of Bojaya.

A FARC mortar round hit a church, killing 119 civilians who were seeking shelter there. Martinez is also accused in participating in a 1999 FARC attack on police in Jurado, Colombia.

Interpol said Martinez first came to Costa Rica in 1997 by land from Panama. He later obtained legal residency after marrying a Costa Rican woman.

Martinez is the not the first suspected organizer of FARC arms-for-drugs deals to be arrested.

In 2004, FARC member Rodrigo Granda was kidnapped by bounty hunters in Venezuela and brought to Colombia.

He was suspected of establishing a link between the FARC - which controls a large share of Colombia's cocaine production - and Mexican drug traffickers, and of helping the rebels buy 10,000 assault rifles from a disgraced Peruvian intelligence chief. Granda was recently sentenced to nearly six years in jail for armed rebellion.

The FARC is Colombia's largest guerrilla insurgency, with an estimated 12,000 fighters.