The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern has tonight been challenged to arrest the Colombia Three by the Democratic Unionist Party.
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DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson tonight said Mr Ahern had to hand them over to the Colombian authorities.
"These three men were intricately involved in the global terrorist network," the East Belfast MP said.
"Bertie Ahern would do well to remember the words of President Bush when he said: 'those who harbour terrorists are terrorists."'
Mr Robinson said he had expressed the DUP's grave concern about the Colombia three surfacing in the Republic.
"We are looking for their immediate arrest and for the Republic to hand them over to the Colombian authorities," he said.
"Mr Ahern must facilitate by whatever means necessary their swift extradition, even if that means new legislation.
"If he does not, unionists in Northern Ireland will believe him to be complicit.
"These men are on-the-run terrorists, convicted of terrorism in a Colombian court. They are in the Republic of Ireland and given that there is supposed to be a global battle against terrorism, Bertie Ahern knows what he has to do."
