. . "The three came to prominence on 11 August 2001, when they were arrested travelling on false passports at Bogot\u00E1 International Airport while waiting to transfer to international flights out of the country. The Colombian authorities alleged at the time that they were training FARC rebels and were members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). According to General Fernando Tapias the Colombian authorities were tipped off by \"an international security organisation\". Two of the three men, Monaghan and McCauley, had arrived in Colombia on 30 June 2001 on a flight from Belfast, via Paris. Niall Connolly had flown from Dublin, via Madrid, and spent a day in Caracas before making a rendezvous in Bogot\u00E1. The three men then spent the next five weeks travelling through a demilitarised southern zone of Colombia, then under the control of the FARC rebels as part of peace talks with the Colombian government. They were arrested as soon as they touched down in Bogot\u00E1 on a commercial flight on the Saturday night."@en . . . "Colombia Three"@en . . . . . . "The three came to prominence on 11 August 2001, when they were arrested travelling on false passports at Bogot\u00E1 International Airport while waiting to transfer to international flights out of the country. The Colombian authorities alleged at the time that they were training FARC rebels and were members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). According to General Fernando Tapias the Colombian authorities were tipped off by \"an international security organisation\"."@en . . .