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FromRuss
Date2002-04-23 22:06 (2002-04-23 22:06)
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In article <3CC5AD43.BD9C8781@indigo.ie>, Michael O'Neill <onq@indigo.ie> writes:

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Another example of this doublespeak is the FARC fiasco. First Sinn Fein

Michael O'Neill
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the IRA say they have no relation to those terrorist trainers. Then they reverse course and embrace them with all the attendant calls in the

Republican

News to release the 'Columbia Three'. If the case of proven, let them

rot.

In general I would agree. If the case be proven let them rot. I'd be a bit concerned about *who* is proving the case and what looks like evidence being planted or altered by the American investigators.

What's the motive? A 'black op' by toryphiles in the CIA? <g>

Yet there is a sneaking suspicion on my mind that the Columbia Three may *not* have been there to *promote* terrorism.

Look at how far the IRA and the Northern Ireland Peace Process have got. Could the three IRA members have been there as "advisors", literally?

Advising the FARC guerillas on how to engage for political advantage as Gerry Adams et al have done? Could this be seen as anything other than peace-mongering? You can laugh if you want but ten years ago the thought of a peace process in Northern Ireland was a dream, nothing more.

I'm interested to see the resolution of this whole shebang.

That why I said 'if the case if proven'. If, as you opine, they were there to advise FARC on joining a peace process, that's a different story. However, I'd say that's a fairly unlikely "if". If they were there for that reason, why not say so?

It strongly appears to me they were there for no good purpose. Perhaps fundraising by hiring themselves out as trainers for guerillas and terrorists and/or trying to sell off IRA arms for cash that they would otherwise end up having to decommission under the GFA - trying to fill the coffers before the well runs dry.

Russ