Colombian Drug Terrorists May Be Financing Sinn Fein/IRA

The Belfast Telegraph reports that Colombia's marxist FARC movement may have given Sinn Fein as much as $2 million in exchange for weapons training.

A top-level think-tank closely connected to the US military has linked an alleged $2 million payment made by Colombian guerrillas to the IRA with Sinn Fein's election campaign.
The bombshell report - by the influential Rand Corporation - is likely to re-ignite the controversy over the Provos' links with the Marxist FARC movement.

It is not difficult to believe that this is true. Sinn Fein/IRA have had links with marxist and terrorist groups all over the world, including Hizbolla, Hamas and Baader-Meinhof. Last month I posted a photo of wall graffiti from the catholic section of Belfast that showed support for the muslim terrorist groups.

So who in the IRA helped the Colombian terrorists?

While the Rand Corporation says the expertise FARC gained led directly to the deaths of hundreds, the IRA has never admitted its members were involved in training the rebels.
Three men - Martin McCauley, James Monaghan and Niall Connolly - were arrested as they attempted to leave Colombia using false documents in August 2001.
They were initially acquitted of training FARC, but convicted of travelling on false documents. As prosecutors appealed, the three were freed and went into hiding.
They have consistently denied training FARC and claimed they were in the country to learn about the stalled peace process there and to educate the movement's leaders about Ireland. Following the appeal, which overturned the acquittals, the three did not come out of hiding and later returned to Ireland.

And there is no doubt that the Irish terrorists gave significant help to the Colombian terrorists:

The report baldly states that the IRA became involved with FARC for other reasons apart from the cash.
These included using the FARC-controlled zone to test weapons. The report states that, in spite of denials by the 'Colombia Three', authorities in the troubled South American country began noticing an improvement in FARC's ability to carry out more sophisticated operations.
"Beginning in early 2001, FARC began intensifying its operations, killing more than 400 members of the Colombian armed forces in 18 months, using car-bombs, secondary devices and homemade mortars."

It is extremely encouraging that the voters in the Republic of Ireland gave an emphatic thumbs -down to the terrorists of Sinn Fein.

Any member of Sinn Fein who tries to enter the USA should be denied a visa just like any member of al Qaeda. And any US citizen who gives support to Sinn Fein should be prosecuted.