IRA: A New Narco-Terrorist Power?(Brief Article)

Gerry Adams, president of the Sinn Fein -- the political wing of the Marxist terrorist Irish Republican Army (IRA) -- announced in early August that he would visit Fidel Castro in Cuba. Adams, who was a frequent White House guest of Bill and Hillary Clinton, had originally intended to visit the Caribbean tyrant last spring, but was forced to cancel the trip.

Just days after Adams' announcement, Colombian officials announced the arrest of three IRA officers who had been training members of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in bomb-making techniques. One of them, reported CNSNews.com on August 16th, was "a Spanish-speaker who has been living in Cuba for several years" and who reportedly made the arrangements for Adams' visit with Castro. Another of the arrested IRA trio had shared a platform with Adams at a Sinn Fein party conference a decade ago; a third was an election official for the party in 1996.

FARC is a narco-terrorist group that controls a territory within Colombia roughly the size of Switzerland, a tract sometimes called "Farclandia." The FARC insurrection has received support and assistance not only from Cuba, Communist China, and Venezuelan Marxist ruler Hugo ...