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August 15, 2001
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Byline: Steve Salisbury

BOGOTA, Colombia - The Colombian government has arrested three Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrillas accused of training Marxist rebels how to build sophisticated bombs to target cities.

The accusations, leveled Monday following the weekend arrests in Bogota, prompted fears of a turn to urban terrorism by Colombia's largest insurgency, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Colombian authorities said the three guerrillas had spent five weeks in the 16,000-square-mile truce zone that the government ceded to the FARC as a peace gesture.

Defense Minister Gustavo Bell, in announcing the arrests on ...

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