Adams may not appear before US inquiry

Gerry Adams has said that he may not attend a hearing in the US over the alleged involvement between the IRA and guerilla militants in Columbia.

Mr. Adams told the BBC that he was in two minds whether to go to the US congressional inquiry. The Sinn Fein leader said that he has been advised that the trip could be a distraction from the peace process in general.

Mr.Adams has been summoned before the US inquiry about the arrest of three alleged IRA members in Columbia last August.

A member from one of the inquiry’s commitees says that there is no doubt that Niall Connolly, Martin McAuley and James Monaghan were in the country to train members of the rebel guerilla group FARC in bomb-making techniques.