Prosecutors say IRA is training Colombian rebels

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Prosecutors have accused three suspected Irish Republican Army members of training leftist rebels in Colombia and of using false documents following a lengthy criminal investigation, the attorney general's office said Saturday.

Prosecutors sent their case against Niall Connolly, James Monaghan and Martin McCauley to a federal judge on Friday, said Carolina Sanchez, spokeswoman for the attorney general's office.

No trial date has been set, but Sanchez said it could begin within a month.

The three men spent five weeks in the safe haven of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, providing training in the use of explosives and other terror tactics, authorities say.

The FARC, Colombia's largest rebel army, has blown up dozens of electrical towers in recent weeks and attacked a reservoir that provides water to the capital, Bogota.