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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian rebel commanders discussed contributing to the election campaign of Ecuador's president and wrote Libya's Moammar Gadhafi asking for $100 million to buy surface-to-air missiles, according to newly published documents.

The letters also describe rebel ties to drug traffickers, meetings with senior Venezuelan police officials and an apparent effort by U.S. Democrats to have celebrated Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez mediate talks with the insurgents — possibly with the involvement of former President Clinton.

The letters signed by rebel leaders were published Sunday by the news magazine Semana. Two senior Colombian officials told The Associated Press they were found on Reyes' computer after he was slain by Colombian forces in a cross-border raid into Ecuador.

Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa, vehemently denies accepting funds.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Pervez Musharraf is not about to quit, a senior ally said today, a day after opponents agreed to form a government and restore judges who had questioned the legality of the former army chief continuing in office.The declaration by the winners of Feb. 18 elections immediately heightened expectations that the unpopular, U.S.-allied president could be on the way out.But the parties of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and another ex-premier, Nawaz Sharif, still lack the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to impeach the president.It was also unclear exactly how they could reinstate the sacked justices.Tariq Azim, a former minister and a Musharraf ally, predicted the victorious parties would ease their rhetoric against the president as they settle into government.

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