Via the BBC: Colombia seeks Israelis’ arrests

International arrest warrants have been issued for three Israeli men wanted in Colombia in connection with the alleged training of paramilitary fighters.

Yair Klein, Melnik Ferry and Tzedaka Abraham are accused of giving military training in the 1990s to landowners’ and drug-traffickers’ private armies.

Prosecutors say those trained went on to carry out some of the country’s most notorious political assassinations.

Some of the fighters went on to form a right-wing paramilitary group, the AUC.

Prosecutors have also accused the three men of working for the then powerful Medellin drugs cartel to create a personal army for its leader, Pablo Escobar.

An interesting mirror image of the allegations against the three IRA members who were charged with aiding the FARC.

[Cross-posted from La Politica Colombiana]