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Reuters. 23 April 2002. House Panel IRA Trained Colombian Rebels. WASHINGTON -- The Irish Republican Army has operated as part of an international terror network that trained Marxist guerrillas in southern Colombia, a U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday after a nine-month investigation. In a preview of a report on its probe, the powerful House Committee on International Relations said the IRA, along with Iranians, Cubans and possibly members of the ETA Basque separatist group, had been training the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in territory once controlled by the rebel group. "It is likely that in the former FARC safe haven, these terrorist groups had been sharing techniques, honing their terrorism skills, using illicit drug proceeds in payment and collectively helping to challenge the rule of law in Colombia," the committee said in a release on its Web Site. "The arrests illustrate a new and dangerous escalation in the FARC's ability to carry out terrorist bombings as well as the reach of global terrorism into the Western Hemisphere," the committee concluded. "Colombia is a potential breeding ground for international terror equaled perhaps only by Afghanistan [N.B.], and the IRA findings are the strongest among these global links because of the arrests of the three Irish nationals and the accompanying evidence," the international relations committee said. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
