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Subject: FARC Links?

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Date Posted: 08:26:27 08/13/02 Tue

>FRESH PIRA / FARC LINKS DISMISSED
>
>The Irish News (Belfast) ran a front-page story today
>headed: Fresh IRA Colombia link claims dismissed.
>
>Sinn F�in insisted there was no evidence to support
>claims that top republican, Padraic Wilson was
>involved in training Farc guerrillas in Colombia.
>
>But a party spokesman stopped short of denying the
>allegations, saying the newspaper reports were yet
>another effort by �nameless, faceless sources� to
>undermine the peace process.
>
>The paper reveals that Wilson was a former O.C. of
>PIRA in the Maze prison and gives other �facts�
>already covered in previous postings to STORMONT-WATCH.
>
>It claims that he travelled on a false passport under
>the name �James Edward Walker�. It is also asserted
>that he was identified by Colombian intelligence and
>the CIA from video security cameras. A video shot
>accompanied the story, with another of Wilson taken
>recently. In the video shot the person is wearing
>glasses, and the nose is smaller and broader.
>
>A second man � John Francis Johnson� using a false
>name and passport is supposed to have travelled with
>Wilson.
>
>The PSF spokesman described the reports as �nonsense�
>and said that ex-prisoners were being targeted
>through the media because of their pasts.
>
>�You can basically say what you want about a
>republican ex-prisoner, who because they have been in
>prison have little chance of successfully suing for
>libel�, he said.
>
>He said there was no evidence to support the
>allegations and claimed stories were being circulated
>by anti-agreement elements within the security
>services.
>
>The report ended: �Mr. Wilson was unavailable for
>comment yesterday.

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