Prosecutors Send IRA Case to Judge
Prosecutors have accused three suspected Irish Republican Army members of training leftist rebels in Colombia and of using false documents, the attorney general’s office said.
After a lengthy investigation, prosecutors sent their case against Niall Connolly, James Monaghan and Martin McCauley to a federal judge on Friday, said Carolina Sanchez, spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office.
No trial date has been scheduled.
The three men spent five weeks in the “safe haven” of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, providing training in the use of explosives and other terrorist tactics, authorities say.
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