Cuban Militant Withdraws Asylum Request

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Cuban-Militant.html

August 31, 2005
Cuban Militant Withdraws Asylum Request
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:13 p.m. ET

EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- An anti-Castro militant accused of entering the country illegally withdrew his request for U.S. asylum Wednesday, and his lawyers said they will focus instead on trying to prevent his deportation to Venezuela.

Luis Posada Carriles claims he will be mistreated if he is returned to Venezuela to face charges that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner while in Caracas. Attorneys for the U.S. and Posada have agreed that Posada should not be deported to Cuba.

..more at link...

[ck4829]

1. So, this terrorist blows up a Cuban plane, but should not be sent to Cuba

That's RW Justice for you.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. It was a Venezulan plane

that was heading for Cuba.

But personally I think he should be sent back to Cuba, Gitmo to be exact.

[Judi Lynn]

2. They've enlisted a right-wing loon from an earlier right-wing Venezuelan

regime to make a pitch for right-wing Luis Posada Carriles. I'll bet they'll use it as the reason to keep him from going back to Venezuela to face trial, too. From the article:

On Tuesday, the judge heard from a former Venezuelan security official and longtime Posada associate who said that if the anti-Castro activist is deported or extradited to Venezuela he would surely suffer torture.
(snip)

So the upshot will be that _Bush will, in effect, allow Luis Posada Carriles to escape both from the consequences of his scheming to commit mass-murder, and, through his puppet former Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, who pardoned him and his co-conspirators, one week before leaving office, ANOTHER mass murder in the bombing they planned to commit by bombing Fidel Castro as he addressed a large audience in an auditorium in Panama.



_Bush and former Miami resident,Mireya
Moscoso enjoy an evening's entertainment

[1932]

3. I wonder if this is a strategic decision.

Why not pursue both?

Also, thanks, NYT, for an article that presented only the quotes of people on Posada's side.

[ret5hd]

4. rot in hell you rotten-veined parasite.

[Celica Toyota]

5. Let's deport this scum.

We shouldn't be helping terrorists.