Suspected IRA Trainers Are Acquitted of Charges
From Times Wire Reports
Three Irishmen were acquitted of training Colombian rebels to build bombs and could soon be freed after spending 33 months in a Colombian prison, court officials said.
James Monaghan, Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley were found guilty of carrying false passports during their 2001 trip to a guerrilla stronghold. Each was sentenced to between 26 and 44 months and fined about $7,000. The attorney general’s office, which calls the men Irish Republican Army guerrillas, said it would appeal.
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