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Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe says the killing of rebel leader Raul Reyes is one more step toward defeating terrorism while Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez warns his Colombian counterpart that an incursion on Venezuelan territory would be an act of war. Colombia's military said on Saturday (March 01) troops had killed a top rebel commander in an attack on a jungle camp across the border in Ecuador in a severe blow to Latin America's oldest guerrilla insurgency. Raul Reyes, one of seven members of the secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was killed in an operation that included air strikes and fighting with rebels across the border, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said. Reyes was considered by analysts to be the No. 2 FARC commander and is the most senior member of the group to be killed in President Alvaro Uribe's U.S.-backed campaign against the guerrillas fighting a more than four-decade-old conflict. "We have taken another step toward defeating the celebrity of bloody terrorism, which 50 years ago was ideological, but today is a terrorism of mercenaries and drug traffickers," Uribe said in a national television broadcast. In the operation, 17 rebels were killed, including Reyes, whose real name was Luis Edgar Devia Silva, along with senior guerrilla Guillermo Torres, Santos said. Violence from Colombia's conflict has ebbed under Uribe, who has sent troops to drive back the rebels. But the FARC is still potent in remote areas...