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Colombians suspect Irishmen may be hiding in Cuba
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombian authorities suspect three
Irishmen convicted of training Marxist rebels in bomb-making
techniques might be hiding out in Cuba, a local Interpol official
said on Saturday.
"We have intelligence reports to that effect," Victor Cruz told
local Caracol Television, adding that Interpol had asked Cuba to see
if it can find the three men the Colombian government says are Irish
Republican Army guerrillas.
Jim Monaghan, Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley disappeared after
being allowed out of a Bogota prison a year ago following their
acquittal -- later reversed -- on charges of helping members of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
In December, a Bogota tribunal ordered the men be rearrested to
serve sentences up to 17 1/2 years but red-faced authorities
admitted they had lost track of them and believed they defied a
court order to stay in the country.
The three men deny the charges or being IRA members.
Connolly was once a Cuba representative of Sinn Fein. McCauley was
convicted in Northern Ireland of firearms offences in 1985, while
Monaghan has a conviction in the Irish Republic for possessing
explosives in the 1970s.
The Colombian government says the FARC has used techniques learned
from the IRA in attacks that included a mortar bombardment on
President Alvaro Uribe's inauguration ceremony in August 2002, which
killed 21 homeless people.
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