'Colombia 3' back in Ireland - Irish state radio

[Eugene]

'Colombia 3' back in Ireland - Irish state radio
Fri Aug 5, 2005 1:44 PM ET

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.

More: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-05T174400Z_01_N05222433_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-IRISH-COLOMBIA-DC.XML

[SteppingRazor]

1. Given the IRA's recent and rather desparate attempts to be peaceful...

I doubt even Sinn Fein will push too far in denying extradition. Although given how corrupt the court system in Colombia is, I'm not sure what to think of this.