I will fight to `lead a normal life,' Posada says

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sat, Jun. 04, 2005

I will fight to `lead a normal life,' Posada says

Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles said he wants U.S. asylum so he can spend his days painting, but refused to say he would give up anti-Castro violence.

BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND OSCAR CORRAL
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EL PASO, Texas - Luis Posada Carriles, the anti-Castro militant whose appearance in South Florida created an international stir and embarrassed U.S. security agencies, said Friday he will fight to stay in the United States and devote his time to painting landscapes.In his first interview with a U.S. publication since his detention last month in Southwest Miami-Dade, Posada refused to say whether he would give up violence in his anti-Castro crusade.
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Posada said he was alone with a friend when ''quite a few'' agents surrounded him outside the friend's house.

' `Are you Luis Posada? We want to talk to you,' '' Posada recalled the agents saying. ``They were very polite.''
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Posada said he is eagerly awaiting a June 13 immigration hearing. The government is expected to outline allegations he entered the country illegally.

''Many things will be decided there,'' Posada said, adding that he is optimistic about the outcome of his detention. ``I won't be here for long.''
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/11811113.htm
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[brainshrub]

1. I will fight to `lead a normal life,' Osama Bin Ladin says

Posted on Sat, Jun. 04, 2007

I will fight to `lead a normal life,' Bin Ladin says

Saudi exile militant Osama Bin Ladin said he wants Iranian asylum so he can spend his days painting, but refused to say he would give up anti-American violence.

[sce56]

2. Too bad his victims just wanted to live a normal life to I bet

and if what has been said about his actions on Nov 22, 1963 are true we are all victioms of his actions.
See
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3767767

[Judi Lynn]

6. Thanks for the D.U. thread link. Haven't seen it before.

This info. from the N.Y. Times interview by Ann Louise Bardach, etc. would seem even more likely today:

Asked when he had last visited the United States, he answered with a laugh and a question of his own: "Officially or unofficially?" A State Department official said Posada was reported to have visited Miami in the summer of 1996.

Posada acknowledged that he has at least four passports, all in different names. He regards himself as a Venezuelan citizen, but he has a Salvadoran passport bearing the name Ram n Medina Rodr guez, the nom de guerre he assumed during the Iran-contra affair, and a Guatemalan passport issued in the name of Juan Jos Rivas Lopez.

He also reluctantly admitted to having an American passport. But he would not discuss how he had obtained it or disclose the name in it, saying only that he occasionally uses it to visit the United States "unofficially," and had once used it to gain refuge in the American Embassy when he was caught in the middle of a revolution in the West African country of Sierra Leone.

"I have a lot of passports," he said with a laugh. "No problem."
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He definitely sounds unruffled, and very protected. Smug, even.

Here's a photo showing several of the men mentioned in one of the articles in the D.U. thread. The drunk lying on the table and the stage in the left foreground is Felix Rodriguez, friend of Luis Posada Carriles, CIA, who was in the party which killed Che Guevara, and the guy who stole Che's watch given to him by his father upon graduation. Next to Rodriguez is Porter Goss, _Bush's appointee, and next to him is Barry Seal, who got "gunned down."



This photograph was taken in a nightclub in Mexico City on 22nd January, 1963. It is believed that the
men in the photograph are all members of Operation 40. Closest to the camera on the left is Felix
Rodriguez. Next to him is Porter Goss and Barry Seal. Tosh Plumlee is attempting to hide his face
with his coat. Others in the picture are Alberto 'Loco' Blanco (3rd right) and Jorgo Robreno (4th right).

[TexasLawyer]

3. I seem to recall

invading Afghanistan recently because that country's government harbored terrorists.

Hmmm! But that same standard couldn't possibly apply to the U.S., could it???

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Can't he paint in prison?

:shrug:

[MaineDem]

5. “If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1364

"Three years ago, after 9/11, President Bush appeared to draw the same line in the sand. Addressing members of the 101st Airborne Division, he declared, 'If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist.'”

Well, Mr Bush, what do you have to say now???

[flordehinojos]

7. posada carriles talks like a fighting rooster because he knows that the

rooster is being kept safe by the bush boys and their goons.

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[acmavm]

9. Maybe it's just because I'm tired but I couldn't make any sense out of

what you posted. Please explain, I'm really curious.