DUP leaders have questions to answer

IN calling for the arrest and extradition of the Colombia Three, DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson displayed, even by DUP standards, hypocrisy of breathtaking proportions.

In echoing the words of US President George Bush, aimed at Taoiseach Bertie Ahern - “those who harbour terrorists are terrorists” - Mr Robinson leaves both himself and the DUP open to accusations of such behaviour.

In 1989, three Ulster loyalists were arrested in Paris when caught handing over ground-to-air missile launchers to a South African diplomat. One of those arrested was an arms instructor in the British Territorial Army and, along with DUP leader Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson, was a founding member of Ulster Resistance - a force recruited to combat the rise of Irish nationalism.