Militant Castro Foe Faces Uncertain Future ( * is looking for a safe home

[wakeme2008]

for him....

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

une 12, 2005
Militant Castro Foe Faces Uncertain Future
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 1:22 p.m. ET

MIAMI (AP) -- For more than 40 years, Luis Posada Carriles fought what he believed was the good fight against Fidel Castro's communist regime in Cuba and other leftist Latin American governments opposed by the United States.

The Cuban-born Posada, a former CIA operative and U.S. Army officer and a shadowy figure known as ''Ramon Medina'' in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal, wants to retire in Florida and dabble in painting.

But allegations about his Cold War past may prevent him from enjoying that quiet retirement.

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Other governments are watching closely to see how the Bush administration reconciles U.S. use of Cuban exiles like Posada when it suits Washington's needs and its campaign against global terrorism following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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His lawyer has left open the possibility that he would agree to depart for a third country if a friendly nation could be found.

..more at link...

[MasonJar]

1. A terrorist that we are protecting! What a shock! He is after all

our terrorist. Venezuela will stop our oil! Then I guess Bushistas will invade another innocent country.

[Say_What]

2. Only those sick MiamiGusanos would see a terrorist as a 'hero'

Always the same terrrorists over and over, but 'heros' to the MiamiGusanos.

Bosch-Avila
Posada-Carriles
Gaspar Jimenez
Pedro Remon
Guillermo Novo

Here's three incidents for starters:

Assassination of Orlando Letelier, former Chilian Foreign Minister in Washington, DC--1976

Cubana airliner bombing--1976

Attempted assassination of Fidel Castro in Panama, 2000

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...In 1964 Novo bought a bazooka, a portable rocket launcher, for $35 in an Eighth Avenue shop and rebuilt it.” He planned to use it to kill Che Guevera, who was scheduled to address the UN General Assembly. He fired the shell from the East River waterfront in Long Island, facing the UN building across the river. According to the New York Times the shell “landed in the East River about 200 yards short of the 38-story United Nations Secretariat building, sending up a 15-foot geyser of water.”

FBI Agents Robert Scherrer and Carter Cornick claimed that Novo played a key role in the murder of Roland Masferrer in Miami on 31st October, 1975. Later he worked for General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. The following year Novo was suspected of being involved with Luis Posada, Orlando Bosch, Herman Ricardo and Freddy Lugo in the Cubana Airlines plane that exploded killing all 73 people aboard. This included all 24 young athletes on Cuba's gold-medal fencing team.

When Posada was arrested he was found with a map of Washington showing the daily route of to work of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Foreign Minister, who had been assassinated on 21st September, 1976. Novo and Alvin Ross were arrested and found guilty of conspiring to murder Letelier. In 1981 he obtained a retrial and was acquitted on a technicality. The jury had also acquitted Ignacio Novo, Guillermo’s younger brother, of aiding and abetting the conspiracy.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnovoG.htm

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...In 2000, Posada and three other Cuban exile militants entered Panama illegally. They were caught and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment each for conspiring to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a summit of Latin American presidents in Panama. However, on Aug. 25, 2004, imprisonment ended with another costly extraction. Just a few days before her reign of corruption ended, the former president of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, granted a pardon to Posada and his co-conspirators as a "humanitarian gesture."

All were swiftly flown from Panama in two private planes chartered by Santiago Alvarez, a Miami developer. Posada went to Honduras, and the rest went to Miami, where, according to the Miami Herald, they received a hero's welcome.

Los tres caballeros are living free in Florida. If a conviction in Panama for an attempted assassination of a head of state doesn't qualify as a terrorist activity, how about the trio's other convictions and alleged offenses: kidnapping Cuba's consul to Mexico in 1977; planting bombs in the Cuban Permanent Mission at the U.N. in 1979 and explosives at Cuban embassies and in commercial ships doing business with Cuba; involvement in the assassination of the Chilean human rights activist Orlando Letelier in Washington in 1970; and the murder of the Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia.


http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-reyna0520.artmay20,0,7932412.column

[burrowowl]

3. What friendly country!

Uzbekistan?

[K-W]

4. The top of that article makes made me want to vomit.

Just a misguided dreamer with some "allegations" from his past as a warrior in our cold war keeping him from a peaceful retirement.


That is such a disgusting torture of reality.

What we did in Cuba and latin america had absolutely nothing to do with the soviet union.

This man is a criminal.

[Say_What]

10. Posada's accomplice in more than the Cubana air bombing, Bosch-Avila

aka Dr. Death, portrays himself as a painter too. SCUM!!! Terrorists who will no doubt get a pass from the Bushistas.


http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0058.html

[Robbien]

5. The NYT is carrying water for Posada?

The man who tortured and had a plane shot out of the sky? The man who is being protested in the streets of Central, South America? Outside of the US Posada is a most reviled man, just in line behind Hitler.

NYT how low can you go?

[K-W]

6. Its an asscociated press story from Miami, not the NYT

NYT is one of the many websites that carries ap stories.

[IndianaGreen]

7. The NY Times is a mouthpiece for the US elites

one cannot expect a newspaper that trumpeted the lies about WMD in Iraq to develop a smidgen of honest reporting.

Don't you find it disturbing, as I do, that any MSM headline about Posada fails to properly label this POS as a terrorist?

[K-W]

8. It is from an AP Reporter in Miami, not the NYT

here it is on another website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5069353,00.html

Does anyone have any proof the times published this story, because all news sites have ap articles on them.

[Robbien]

9. But the NYT decides which AP stories to put on its page

As we all know there are many AP stories the NYT chooses not to put on its site.

So, since they are helping to distribute this story, they are carrying water for Posada.

[Say_What]

11. Exactly right!! Instead they're calling a well documented, self-admitted

terrorist a 'militant'. Can't anybody tell the f*ck'n truth?

[acmavm]

13. But an Iraqi defending his home and country for a foreign invader who

dropped bombs on innocent civilians killing untold thousands in either a 'terrorist' or an 'insurgent'.

I need a new dictionary.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Didn't they say that anyone who harbors a terrorist

is a terrorist?