Republican News · Thursday 31 January 2002

Congressional hearing on Colombia?

It was reported in the London Times and the Irish Times on Wednesday that the US House Committee on International Relations is to proceed with hearings on alleged links between the IRA and FARC guerillas in Colombia. It was claimed that invitations have already been issued to four witnesses, one of whom is Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.

As we go to press, neither the Sinn Féin party nor Gerry Adams have received any such invitation and An Phoblacht understands it is by no means a certainty that the hearings will go ahead.