Terrorist Posada Carriles to Ask US for Release

[IndianaGreen]

Jeb Bush's favorite terrorist, how could he not be released?

Terrorist Posada Carriles to Ask US for Release

Washington, Aug 12 (Prensa Latina) International terrorist Luis Posada Carriles will appear before a federal US court on Monday to ask for his liberation, irrespective of his huge dossier as criminal.

Posada Carriles´ lawyer Eduardo Soto said the petition will be based on the assessment that Posada Carriles, detained for over a year after illegally entering the US, should not be indefinitely convicted.

The notorious criminal is held in a detention center in Texas, where he has remained since May 2005, following his public appearance in Miami and proven his illegal entry into the US, from Mexico.

Despite the Venezuelan extradition request, seeking to punish him for involvement in the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed 73 people, Posada Carriles has only been charged for that immigration crime.

He is also connected with a string of bomb attacks against tourist facilities in Havana in 1977, when Italian youth Fabio di Celmo was killed.

Prensa Latina

[IntiRaymi]

1. He needs to be released to a competent authority.

Too often I have seen criminals harbored by the US government.
As of late, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, former Bolivian President and responsible for a brutal massacre of peasants, is living a confortable life in the USA.

[struggle4progress]

2. What? No Republicans denounce this international terrorist?

Posada Carriles Bust Blows Bush’s Anti-Terror Cover
By Saul Landau | June 3, 2005

... The FBI has reams of files on Posada, affectionately called “Bambi” by his terrorist friends. Former FBI Special Agent Carter Cornick told New York Times reporter Tim Weiner that Posada was “up to his eyeballs” in the October 1976 destruction of a Cuban commercial airliner over Barbados. All 73 passengers and crew members died. Recently published documents from the FBI and CIA confirm Cornick’s statement. Published cables also reveal that U.S. agencies had knowledge of the plot and did not inform Cuban authorities or try to stop the bombing.

Posada denied involvement at the time, but police nabbed two of the plotters who had disembarked in Barbados. They fingered Posada as the man who hired them to place the bomb on the plane. His name became ubiquitous in the files of U.S. agencies that monitored terrorists. Nevertheless, several weeks after Posada announced his presence on U.S. soil, Roger Noriega, assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs, still claimed he had no information that Posada had even entered the country.

Posada himself promoted his international profile. To make sure that the world knew of his exploits, he boasted to New York Times reporters Anne Bardach and Larry Rohter in 1998 that he had organized a sabotage campaign of Cuban tourist spots. In 1997, a bomb placed by a Posada agent at a Cuban hotel killed an Italian tourist. Did this bother his conscience? Posada replied that “it was a freak accident, but I sleep like a baby” ...

http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2005/0506posada_body.html

Bush's war on terror put to test by fugitive from Cuba
By Marc Frank in Havana

Published: May 17 2005 03:00 | Last updated: May 17 2005 03:00

... Declassified US intelligence records posted on the National Security Agency web page last week identified Mr Posada and Orlando Bosch, his associate and reputed leader of the Coru anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organisation, as the engineers of the 1976 aircraft bombing. The records link them to other terrorist acts, including a car bomb that killed Orlando Letelier, the exiled Chilean foreign minister, and his US aide in Washington two weeks after the Cubana explosion ...

https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=&location=http%3A//news.ft.com/cms/s/d5813632-c671-11d9-b69b-00000e2511c8.html
https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/shef2venez/2005-May/000026.html

[acmavm]

3. He's one of THEIRS, so therefore any murders he may have done

are just okey dokey with them. They were to spread democracy and freedom don't ya know?