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| | New York Daily News - World & National Report - Wanted P.R. nationalist shot dead in standoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | HORMIGUEROS, Puerto Rico - A Puerto Rican nationalist wanted in the $7.2 million robbery of an armored truck in Connecticut in 1983 was shot and killed by FBI agents in a shootout, ending the fugitive's 15 years on the run, the bureau said yesterday. |
 | | Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 72, fired on the agents Friday from a farmhouse in the western Puerto Rican town of Hormigueros, wounding an agent, said Luis Fraticelli, the special agent in charge of the FBI for the U.S. island territory. |
 | | He said the nationalist had demanded that a reporter be present, but the FBI refused, fearing the journalist could be taken hostage. |
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