A Terrorist Comes Home, an embarrassing challenge to the Bush admin.

[G_j]

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28658

POLITICS-U.S.:
A Terrorist Comes Home to Roost

Jim Lobe


WASHINGTON, May 12 (IPS) - 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 organising 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.

Posada, who also worked for the operation supplying ''Contra'' rebels in Central America in the mid-1980s until the Iran-Contra scandal broke open with the downing of one of its planes, was also convicted of conspiring to assassinate Castro during a 2000 visit to Panama. A Panamanian court sentenced him to eight years in prison in 2004 but he was unexpectedly pardoned by outgoing President Mireya Moscosa last September and flew to Honduras.

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[hiley]

1. National Security Archives

LUIS POSADA CARRILES
THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD
CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism; Connection to U.S.

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 153

May 10, 2005
Washington D.C. May 10, 2005 - Declassified CIA and FBI records posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University identify Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who is apparently in Florida seeking asylum, as a former CIA agent and as one of the snip---

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm

[hiley]

2. IRAN-CONTRA AND POSADA (A.K.A. RAMON MEDINA)

Document 14: September 2, 1986, Contra re-supply document,

After bribing his way out of prison in Venezuela in September 1985, Posada went directly to El Salvador to work on the illicit contra resupply operations being run by Lt. Col. Oliver North. Posada assumed the name "Ramon Medina," and worked as a deputy to
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http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.h...

[MountainLaurel]

3. How very interesting

Thanks for that information.

Can't wait to see the Repukes sweat this one out.

:popcorn:

[ismnotwasm]

4. Interesting

But bush will probably ignore the whole thing and the media will let it die, because the public will ignore the blatent hypocrisy. But one can always hope this bites him on the ass. Hard