'Bomb-plot' Cuban seeks US asylum (BBC News)

[Up2Late]

(He worked "directly and indirectly" for the CIA, just like Osama Bin Laden!)

"Bomb-plot" Cuban seeks US asylum

A Cuban exile accused by President Fidel Castro of plotting to kill him has applied for asylum in the US, his lawyer has said.

Wednesday, 13 April, 2005, 19:18 GMT 20:18 UK

Luis Posada Carriles is also wanted in Venezuela over the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, in which 73 people were killed. Mr Carriles has been in hiding for months and managed to cross illegally into the US from Mexico some weeks ago. On Tuesday, Mr Castro demanded to know how he had breached US border security. He called Mr Carriles, 77, "a monster" comparable to Osama Bin Laden.

On Tuesday, Mr Carriles' lawyer said his client's asylum application would be based partly on his claim that he worked "directly and indirectly" for the CIA for years, and had thus helped US interests. Mr Carriles once boasted of being responsible for a series of bomb attacks of Havana tourist spots in the 1990s.

Five years ago, he was arrested in Panama and accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro during a summit there. He was convicted of a lesser charge, but was later pardoned and freed by the outgoing Panamanian president - causing Cuba to break off diplomatic relations. He has been in hiding since then.

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[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. I wonder what the U.S. would do...

...if Cuba harbored someone who tried to assassinate the U.S. President?

[SouthernDem2004]

2. The CIA thing is still just a claim.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Did you ever read the N.Y. Times interview by Ann Bardach?

Luis Posada Carriles described his years of employement by the C.I.A.

I'm in a hurry now, don't have time to run it down, but this article should throw a little light on it. (You can get the TRUE picture if you simply do a search for Luis Posada Carriles and CIA. You'll have plenty to study to steer you toward a clearer pictuare.)

On July 12 and 13, 1998, the New York Times had successive front-page articles on the career of Luis Carriles Posada, a world class terrorist who had been trained by the CIA in the 1950s in preparation for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and who thereafter devoted his life to terrorist actions against Cuba. As a U.S.-sponsored terrorist, for many years in direct U.S. service, and who continued to terrorize a country subject to U.S. economic and other forms of warfare, Posada remained under effective U.S. protection for over 30 years. This protection was paralleled by a treatment by terrorism "experts" and the U.S. media that differed sharply from that accorded terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. The Times articles of July 12 and 13 represent a partial break from the past, in which a potent double standard between "their terrorists" and our own had been consistently maintained.
(snip/...)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/TheirTerroristsorOurs.html

(This article has appeared in various other sources.)

[thebigidea]

8. and i'm sure we can all trust Porter Goss to tell the truth about it...

[NNN0LHI]

9. CIA or not he admits to blowing up a civilian airliner killing 73 people

Is that alone not a good enough for you to keep this terrorist scum out of our country? Or do you still think he should be protected here?

Don

[thebigidea]

10. I don't think that's his quibble, its the reputation of our upstanding CIA

who, of course - have never associated themselves with unsavory elements in south n' central america...

[Judi Lynn]

4. Updated news on this character......

Posted on Wed, Apr. 13, 2005


Cuban exile to talk with officials on bid for asylum, attorney says

BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND NANCY SAN MARTIN
Knight Ridder Newspapers


MIAMI - (KRT) - Luis Posada Carriles, a controversial Cuban militant accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976, will emerge from hiding within a few days to meet with Miami immigration officials about his bid for asylum in the United States, his lawyer said Wednesday.

If Posada, 77, comes forward, a high-level U.S. official in Washington, D.C., said he would be immediately detained and put in deportation proceedings - though it's unlikely he would be sent back to the island. Cuba has said Posada would face a firing squad.

Coral Gables, Fla., immigration attorney Eduardo Soto said Posada is seeking asylum because he has a "well-founded fear of persecution" for his militant political opinion against Cuban leader Fidel Castro and for "membership in a particular social group."

Soto said Posada should qualify for protection as a former CIA operative, beginning with the Bay of Pigs invasion. Soto said the social group - people who worked for the CIA against Castro - are targets for persecution.
(snip)

Soto's comments about plans for Posada to go public - perhaps later this week or early next - were the strongest indication to date that Posada is ready to step out of hiding, even though immigration officials would not offer guarantees against detaining him.
Soto said Posada has been in the United States for about a month after sneaking in across the Mexican border.
(snip/...)http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11386270.htm
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[malaise]

5. I lost friends on that aircraft

when that bomb blew it out of the skies off Barbados. They were young Caribbean students heading to university in Cuba as well as sports teams. No wonder I still ask just who is the terrorist.

[Judi Lynn]

12. Very sorry this happened to your friends. Unforgivable.

The entire event was kept completely quiet here when it happened. I'm certain most Americans who even know about it now heard about it long after it happened. Isn't that sick?

I had heard there were students from Guyana traveling in a group on that plane, as well as the entire young (teenaged) Cuban fencing team. It was the first airliner bombed in flight in history.

There were photos of the relatives of the people on board published in newspapers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. I've seen them, but they were never published here, just as if it never happened.

This sentence may strike you as insanely vicious, uttered by another of the collaborators in the bombing, Orlando Bosch, comfortably living in Miami after being turned down by over 30 countries, and admitted to the U.S., after _{George W. Bush} overturned an exclusionary judgement by U.S. Associate Attorney General Joe D. Whitley, and gave him an administrative pardon. Here's the record of his exclusionary proceeding:

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0054.html

The unbelievably stupid, vicious statement:

"There were no innocents on that plane."




One sick bastard

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2001-12-20/news/feature_1.html

[hector459]

6. So, the US harbors "terrorists?"

Can the rest of the world put sanctions against us?

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Why not?

It's not like this is something new. Carriles' buddy Orlando Bosch has been living in Miami for years and Bush Sr. even gave him a pardon. Heck, Bosch even gets invited to hang out whenever a Bush shows up for a speech or a party down there. Not to mention his last gig has Elian's pediatrician. The big surprise will be if the Bush's don't let him in.

[Mika]

11. He usually sits close to Bill Nelson (D Fl) on stage..

.. when Jeb or Shrub take to the stage in Miami, also featuring (Fla Bush elector) Felix Rodriguez.





Gotta appease the terrorist bomber supporter vote.

:puke: :puke:


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www.stopbolton.org

[Vogon_Glory]

13. Airliner Bombers Have Ceased To Be Amusing. Deport Him!

I have not had kind thoughts towards people who bomb airliners filled with innocents for many years, even if those airliners belonged to "Commie" regimes.

If the US expects to slow its transition from a respected leader among the nations into a rogue state, we ought to make some gesture showing that we still acknowledge international law and that we actually do oppose international terrorism, regardless of what political stripe. If Carriles can be legally and constitutionally deported, he should be so.

[Up2Late]

14. NPR report,This guy was a major IRAN/CONTRA Player!

They reported that he worked in El Salvador with the guy that captured Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Anti-Castro Figure Seeks Asylum in U.S.

All Things Considered, April 13, 2005 ·

Melissa Block talks with Ann Louise Bardach about Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who is seeking political asylum in the U.S. Carriles has a history working for the CIA. He has also served prison time for the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner and been implicated in a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

To hear the Audio report, click the link above, then click the red speaker button that looks like this<>

[struggle4progress]

15. Send this terrorist thug to Guantanamo.