Last Updated: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 16:48
CONOR LALLY, Crime Correspondent
Gardaí investigating the discovery of an explosive device outside Shells head office on Leeson Street in Dublin in September have searched the home of a prominent republican in the city.
The search took place in the home of James Monaghan, one of the so-called Colombia Three, in Killester, Dublin 5 this morning and the property remained sealed off.
Gardaí found what they believe to be components for an explosive device at the house. There have been a number of arrests in relation to the find. One of those detained is a 16-year-old boy.
However Mr Monaghan has not been arrested.
Gardaí believe the explosive device was left outside Shells office on September 15th as part of the protest against the controversial Corrib gas pipeline in Co Mayo.
The bomb, which was defused by the Army bomb disposal squad, was described by an Army spokesman at the time as “viable, home-made, crude and highly-dangerous”.
Colombia’s Supreme Court of Justice last year rejected an appeal by defence lawyers for Mr Monaghan (61), Martin McCauley (45) and Niall Connolly (43) against their convictions for training the Farc rebels.
An extradition request was lodged by the Colombian authorities in September 2005 but the Department of Justice wrote back, via the Department of Foreign Affairs, pointing out that there was no extradition agreement between the two states.
The men were initially arrested as they were about to board an international flight at Bogota’s El Dorado airport on August 11th, 2001.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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