Mano a mano combat

First, Colombia kills Raul Reyes, a FARC commander and spokesman, prompting a bluster storm from Hugo Chavez and his lapdogs. Now, commander Ivan Rios (on the left, apparently at a FARC tailgate party), who oversaw Juan Valdez's coffee territory in central Colombia, is apparently dead. Or at least looking for an artificial hand:

"A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Colombian troops the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday.

Thursday night, he said, a guerrilla known as Rojas came to the troops with Rios' severed right hand, laptop computer and ID, saying he had killed his boss three days earlier. Rojas handed himself over to the soldiers.

It was unclear what motivated the killing, but Santos said it was to 'relieve the military pressure' because the rebels were 'surrounded, without supplies and without communication.'

The U.S. State Department has a bounty of $5 million for Rios' capture, although the agency's spokesman, Kurtis Cooper, had no comment on whether the reward would be paid out in this case."

I imagine this like the case of Douglas Neidermeyer in "Animal House," killed in Vietnam by his own troops...