'Colombia 3' back in Ireland - Irish state radio
Posted on: Friday, 5 August 2005, 12:44 CDT
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Three Irishmen convicted in a Colombian court of teaching Marxist rebels how to make bombs have surfaced in Ireland, state broadcaster RTE reported on Friday.
The men, Jim Monaghan, Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley, who Colombia says are members of the Irish Republican Army, disappeared after their release from a Bogota jail a year ago to await a state appeal of their initial acquittal.
The appeal court overturned the acquittal and sentenced the three to up to 17 years in prison, but by that time red-faced authorities had to admit they had lost track of the men, and that they had probably defied a court order to stay in the country.
At one stage authorities believed the three were in Cuba.
The men's reappearance in their home country comes a week after the IRA pledged to end its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
The three men were arrested in 2001 and accused of training members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in bomb-making techniques.
They have denied the charges, and the accusation that they belong to the IRA.
Source: REUTERS
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