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See more | Photo caption The Olympians Athletes around the world train for the upcoming London 2012 Olympics. Slideshow Facing eviction Spanish families face eviction after being unable to pay their mortgages. Slideshow Peru rebel leader mocks Humala's army after ambush Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Peru says hostages freed, clashes with Shining Path Sun, Apr 15 2012 Exclusive: Peru's president faces claim at Americas rights commission Tue, Apr 10 2012 Peru's Shining Path rebels take hostages, free most Mon, Apr 9 2012 Colombian rebels free captives held for over a decade Tue, Apr 3 2012 Syria says revolt over, but army still shooting Sat, Mar 31 2012 Analysis & Opinion The last ten Related Topics World » LIMA | Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:21pm EDT LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's first major hostage-taking in a decade was a ruse to lure soldiers into a remote jungle valley and kill them in ambushes, said the Shining Path rebel who led the kidnappings of 36 gas workers. Martin Quispe Palomino said in television footage broadcast Wednesday the rebels suffered no casualties but killed six soldiers and police over the weekend. The rebels released the workers on Saturday, six days after they were taken hostage near a natural gas field. The rebels also shot down a helicopter that was flown by local police and owned by the United States, which funds anti-drug work in Peru, the world's top cocaine exporter. Quispe Palomino, who is known as Comrade Gabriel and had never before shown his face to the media, scoffed at promises by President Ollanta Humala to eliminate the remnant band of Maoist rebels. "We asked for a ransom but we knew they (the government) wouldn't pay. We did it so that these hopeless reactionaries would send in the armed forces and we could annihilate them. This was our objective," a smiling Quispe Palomino said in an interview broadcast on TV channel Panamericana. Two gun-toting bodyguards stood by him in a patch of heavily-mined jungle as he spoke to reporters that included the Peruvian newspapers La Republica and El Comercio. Quispe Palomino said it will become easier to ambush soldiers if the government tries to reinforce security along Peru's main natural gas pipeline, which carries fuel from the Camisea fields in the jungle to Pacific coast. "Let them militarize the pipeline," he said. "We'd have the upper hand and would annihilate the armed forces, right?" Prime Minister Oscar Valdes, who like Humala is a former military officer, said the army's deployment of 1,500 security agents to pressure the rebels to free the hostages was "impeccable" despite the casualties. He said the government refused to pay the rebels' ransom demands, which included $10 million and bundles of dynamite. "We won't permit any piece of our territory to be a no man's land where the terrorists do what they please. The government's position is very clear. He said President Humala has ordered the rebels be captured "dead or alive." HUMALA GEARS UP Humala, who has spent much of his time trying to calm debilitating protests against mining and petroleum projects since taking office in July, donned camouflage fatigues twice in recent days to show his commitment to quashing the rebels. In February, police caught Shining Path leader Florindo Eleuterio Flores, the last high-ranking figure from the Shining Path's historic core, who went by the nom de guerre Artemio. Artemio ran a band of rebels in the Huallaga Valley, one of the country's main coca-growing regions. The Quispe Palomino band operates farther south in a treacherous bundle of jungle valleys known as the VRAE, also heavily planted with coca. Holdout bands of rebels, who are now too weak to threaten the government, went into the cocaine-trafficking business after the founders of the group were captured in the early 1990s. The Shining Path launched a war to overthrow the state in 1980, and some 70,000 people were killed in the conflict. In 2003, the group captured 70 workers employed by Argentine company Techint who were building the Camisea gas pipeline. (Reporting by Terry Wade and Teresa Cespedes; Editing by Doina Chiacu) World Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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