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| Gerry Adams considering whether to testify on Irish FARC thugs |
| 2002-04-23 |
| Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams will announce on Tuesday whether he will attend a U.S. Congressional hearing into alleged links between his party's Irish Republican Army (IRA) ally and Colombian FARC guerrillas. Adams, who has kept the inquiry guessing about whether he will give evidence following the arrest in Colombia last year of three suspected IRA men charged with training FARC rebels, met senior party members on Monday night to debate the issue. A Sinn Fein spokesman told Reuters Adams would inform the House International Relations Committee in Washington of his intention before going public. Adams has said his "instinct" is to attend the hearings, due to begin on Wednesday, but that he was being pressed by his party not to go in case the inquiry prejudiced the trial of the three Irishmen being held in Colombia. That means they don't know just what kind of surprise incriminating evidence the committee might have. But he thought about it real hard, we're sure, and then decided, well, maybe next time... Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has turned down a request to give evidence to a US Congressional committee investigating links between the IRA and Colombian rebels. Adams told a news conference in Belfast on Tuesday he had offered to meet the committee the next time he was in Washington. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |