Colombia Three ‘trained rebels in mortar use’
Wearing a bullet-proof shirt and flanked by armed guards, Edwin Giovanny Rodriguez, a jailed Marxist guerrilla, told the court he saw three foreigners training rebels and testing weapons. James Monaghan, Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley were arrested in August, 2001, at Bogota’s airport. They have been accused of training Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas and of travelling on false passports.
Rodriguez said he was in charge of driving and guarding one of the men, whom he described as a middle-aged, white-haired man who didn’t speak much, if any, Spanish. Though Rodriguez did not identify him directly, it appeared he was referring to Mr Monaghan, who fits that description.
