I Supose the Rebels Were Just Going to Hold Hands

Base10 doesn't know what to make of this item in AP/Yahoo. The three IRA members who were jailed in Colombia for training FARC terrorists have lost a judicial appeal and have been sentenced to between 17 and 17 and 1/2 years for aiding the terrorists.

Base10 is glad they're going to do some time. Colombia is a beautiful country that has been ravaged by sectarian violence and narco-terrorism. But this item is a something else.

In the article, the writer notes that the accused Irishmen are accused of "teaching fighters of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, how to make bombs."

Note FARC is not described as a terrorist organization. Later in the story the author notes that the three were in hiding "amid concern they could be targeted by right-wing death squads angry over their alleged ties to the FARC."

Now Base10 is all for calling a spade a spade. If right-wing murderers in Colombia can be called "death-squads," surely left-wing murderers can be called "terrorists." But not apparently by the AP.
- posted by Base10 @ 5:33 PM