Militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles has died

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Gisela Salomon, Associated Press
Updated 9:27 am, Wednesday, May 23, 2018

MIAMI (AP) -- Former CIA operative and militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who was accused of organizing a string of 1997 Havana hotel bombings and a 1976 Cuban airline bombing that killed 73 people, has died. He was 90.

Posada, who had been diagnosed with throat cancer about five years ago, died Wednesday at a care home for elderly veterans in Broward Country, north of Miami, according to Arturo Hernandez, a lawyer for the hardline exile.

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Early on, Posada's CIA handlers described him as reliable and even a reasonable voice among the exiles, whom he was willing to inform on, according to declassified agency documents released at the request of the National Security Archives.

"A15 is not a typical kind of 'boom and bang' individual," CIA handler Grover Lythcott wrote in 1966, using a code name for Posada. "He is acutely aware of the international implications of ill-planned or overly enthusiastic activities against Cuba."



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Militant-Cuban-exile-Luis-Posada-Carriles-has-died-12936827.php

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Cuban relatives of murdered Cubana
airline bombing victims.



Enjoying his celebrity in Miami among Cuban "exiles"



Standing with his Cubana bombing associate,
Orlando Bosch

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thus Passed a True American-Made Terrorist

Luis Posada Carriles was a "CIA-created Frankenstein."

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 23, 2018

An authentically evil man, and an authentic terrorist if anyone ever was, died in a bed at the age of 90 on Wednesday. Luis Posada Carriles should have died in a cell at Leavenworth. He was an anti-Castro terrorist on the CIA payroll. He was accused of committing atrocities in our name, and on our dime, throughout Central America and the Caribbean – including, it was alleged, being intimately involved with the 1976 bombing of a Cubana Airlines plane just after takeoff from Barbados in which 73 people were killed including the entire Cuban fencing team.

From the Miami Herald:

Cuban government website Cubadebate on Wednesday described him as a "terrorist" whose victims included the innocent passengers on the plane that exploded after taking off from Barbados in 1976. It said he died "without having paid for this crime nor the many other terrorist acts that are a feature of his criminal record."

Posada always publicly denied involvement in the bombing of a Cuban airliner that had taken off from Barbados, the deadliest in-flight explosion until the 1988 Pan Am flight bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.

But in a 1998 New York Times interview, he took credit for the Havana bombings, which killed an Italian tourist, before later recanting. When the AP asked about that interview and the bombings in 2009, Posada initially said he didn't hear or understand the Times' questions, then mentioned his lawyer, then stopped, laughed and shrugged.

More:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20888705/luis-posada-carriles-dead-cia-terrorist/

[Vogon_Glory]

2. The Quest for Justice will move on to a higher court

One where the judge isn’t moved by BS defense arguments and doesn’t fear the right’s reaction.

If Posada Carriles’ didn’t die soon enough, at least he lived long enough to see a race-baiter like number 45 slime Hispanics and see his fellow Cuban emigres catch it along with other Hispanics born abroad and here in America, too.

[bluedigger]

3. What a terrible shame

That he died a free man.