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(27 Sep 2007) SHOTLIST AP Television Bogota - 26 September 2007 1. Relatives of hostages coming through the gates of the National Palace - (in order) George Gonsalves, Lynne Stansell & Gene Stansell 2. Various of relatives entering the National Palace. 3. Various of relatives inside National Palace walking up the stairs AP Television FILE: Colombia Mountains, February 2003 4. STILL: Keith Stansell (left) and Marc Gonsalves 5. STILL: Tom Howes 6. STILL: Marc Gonsalves 7. STILLS: Various of Stansell, Gonsalves and Howes sitting together 8. STILL: Keith Stansell. 9. STILL: Gonsalves. AP Television Bogota - 26 September 2007 10. Relatives of the hostages walking down the stairs 11. Relatives walking out of building 12. Wide of press around relatives 13. Mid of relatives boarding van STORYLINE Relatives of three Americans held for more than four years by Colombian rebels said on Wednesday they were heartened by their meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who claimed filmmaker Oliver Stone would like to document his efforts to free the hostages. "We're the closest we've ever been to getting our son back," Lynne Stansell, mother of hostage Keith Stansell, said after talking to Chavez in Caracas. She spoke in Bogota after a meeting between relatives of Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Tom Howes and an adviser to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whom the group will meet on Thursday in New York. Stansell, who was wearing a yellow ribbon lapel pin inlaid with a US flag and the names of the three American defence contractors, said Chavez told her he was getting involved as a humanitarian gesture and not for political reasons. Earlier on Wednesday, family members met with US Ambassador William Brownfield at the Embassy in Bogota, where photos of the three Northrop Grumman Corporation employees sits on display under the caption "You are not forgotten." They were also scheduled to meet with police officer Frank Pinchao, who escaped in April from the jungle camp where he and the Americans were being held. They have been held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, since February 2003, when their small plane crashed in the Colombian jungle while on a surveillance mission. Other than Pinchao's testimony, the only confirmation relatives have received that their loved ones remain alive is a proof-of-life video sent by their captors a few months after their abduction. Chavez on Tuesday urged U.S. President George W. Bush to help him secure the release of the Americans, who are among a group of 45 so-called political prisoners being held by the FARC. Chavez noted that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is also playing a role out of concern for the fate of another hostage: former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, a dual French-Colombian citizen. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...