Cuba 'bomber' sought by Venezuela

[IndianaGreen]

America is hypocritical when it comes to terrorism. The Contras were terrorists, but we called them freedom fighters when they murdered innocent peasants. Posada is a terrorist, but to the US he was working for CIA so he was not a terrorist.

Saturday, 14 May, 2005, 01:40 GMT 02:40 UK

Cuba 'bomber' sought by Venezuela

Venezuela has asked the US to extradite an anti-communist militant to retry him for the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, diplomats say.

Luis Posada Carriles, who was born in Cuba but is a Venezuelan citizen, is reported to be hiding in the US.

Declassified FBI documents say Mr Posada Carriles spent time working for the CIA during the 1960s, and blame him for the bombing.

The 1976 explosion on a flight from Caracas to Havana killed 73 people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4546379.stm

[IndianaGreen]

1. A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost

According to this article, the FBI would not arrest Posada because there was no warrant for him. Let's see what the FBI will do now that Venezuela has asked for his extradition.

Published on Friday, May 13, 2005 by the Inter Press Service
A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost
by Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON -- The sudden and untimely arrival on U.S. territory of a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asset and admitted terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, poses an embarrassing challenge to the credibility of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

Posada, who in an interview with the New York Times seven years ago admitted to organizing a wave of bombings in Cuba in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and injured 11 others, is best known as the prime suspect in the bombing of a Cubana Airlines flight shortly after it took off from Barbados in October 1976.

The incident, in which all 73 crew members and passengers including teenaged members of Cuba's national fencing team were killed, was the first confirmed mid-air terrorist bombing of a commercial airliner.

Then-President George Bush in 1990 pardoned Orlando Bosch, another Cuban exile opposed to President Fidel Castro and implicated in the plot, overruling a strong U.S. Justice Department opinion that called for Bosch's deportation.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0513-05.htm

[burrowowl]

2. Bu$h1

Should be in prison. His human rights record is deplorable.
Bu$h 2 should be in the same cell: L'enfer, c'est l'autres.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Excuse me, the FBI won't arrest him

because there is no arrest warrent for him? The fellow is a known and admitted terrorist. If he is in the country he most certainly got in here illegally and now he's hiding somewhere but the FBI can't be bothered. What's wrong with this picture? Now replace this Cuban fellow with an Arab named Osama and see how interested they get.

[Mika]

5. He's not a terra-ist, he's a freedom fighter.

:eyes:

[IndianaGreen]

6. Don't forget that Poppy Bush pardoned Posada's co-conspirator

Orlando Bosch, another CIA Cuban-American operative.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. They didn't just pardon Orlando Bosch

he is now an honored guest any time the Bush's show up in Miami. Who needs al Qaeda when you've got CANF/CIA.

[w4rma]

It doesn't seem they are real interested in Osama, either. Notice how our

armed forces are all in Iraq and not Afghanistan?

[gandalf]

3. MinstrelBoy wrote about him in his Blog:

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/04/whose-hemisphere-is-it-anyway.html

[IndianaGreen]

9. Posada was involved with Santos Trafficante?

He was investigated by the Justice Department in 1967 for "moonlighting" - so says a memo in his CIA file - for Santos Trafficante. (Posada had been supplying the Miami mob with explosives, silencers and hand grenades.)

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/04/whose-hemisphere-is-it-anyway.html

The first question that popped in my head when I read that was where was Posada when President Kennedy was assassinated?

[NNN0LHI]

7. A terrorist is someone who does violence you don't like n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism...

"And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." -- George W. Bush*, 9/20/01

[struggle4progress]

11. Families of victims of airliner bombing call for exile's extradition

BY RAFAEL LORENTE
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Family members of victims of the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines DC-8 called on the Bush administration Friday to extradite controversial Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela to stand trial in connection with the incident, which killed 73 people.

Posada's lawyer has said the exile, 77, is in Florida and has applied for asylum in the United States. <snip>

Dagoberto Rodriguez, chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington and Cuba's top diplomat in the United States, dismissed suggestions that Cuba might try to get Posada extradited to the island if he were sent to Venezuela.

"Cuba has said it many times, that even though we have every right ... we won't do it," Rodriguez said. "He should be tried in Venezuela." <snip>

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/11641998.htm