US asks court to hold alleged Cuban airline bomber

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The U.S. Justice Department filed objections on Thursday to a U.S. court's proposal to free an anti-Castro militant accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people.

The U.S. government had until Thursday to respond to Magistrate Norbert Garney's finding last month that Luis Posada Carriles, 79, a naturalized Venezuelan originally from Cuba, must be freed because the United States has not labeled him a terrorist and has not been able to find a friendly country to take him.

Posada, detained by U.S. immigration since 2005 for illegally crossing the border into Texas from Mexico, has become a political hot potato for the Bush Administration because Cuba and Venezuela have declared Posada a terrorist.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05438422.htm

Posada has applied for U.S. citizenship. The status of that application was unclear Thursday.
http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=5503395

[Moderator]

1. Kick

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. U.S. asks court to hold alleged Cuban airline bomber (Luis Posada)

Oct 5, 2006

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EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department filed objections on Thursday to a U.S. court's proposal to free an anti-Castro militant accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people.

The U.S. government had until Thursday to respond to Magistrate Norbert Garney's finding last month that Luis Posada Carriles, 79, a naturalized Venezuelan originally from Cuba, must be freed because the United States has not labeled him a terrorist and has not been able to find a friendly country to take him.

Posada, detained by U.S. immigration since 2005 for illegally crossing the border into Texas from Mexico, has become a political hot potato for the Bush Administration because Cuba and Venezuela have declared Posada a terrorist.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-10-05T213458Z_01_N05438422_RTRUKOC_0_US-CUBA-BOMBING-POSADA.xml&WTmodLoc=IntNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-10


Then the DOJ just needs to label Posada a terrorist and/or send him back to Venezuala.

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3. Dallas MN: Article with more details....

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Anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles will remain in an El Paso detention center for now, despite a federal magistrate's ruling that he be set free pending his deportation, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs said Thursday.

Spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said the ICE decision to continue holding Posada was based on several factors, including Posada's potential flight risk, "danger to the community and also Posada's failure to show, to demonstrate that there is no significant likelihood of removal for the foreseeable future."

ICE officials informed Posada, a former CIA operative and U.S. soldier, of the interim decision Thursday morning, Zamarripa said.

Zamarripa said Posada, 78, was also told that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security "is considering, in consultation with the Department of State, whether his detention should be continued based on the ground that his release may have serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States."

...Justice Department lawyers also filed a 22-page objection to Garney's recommendation Thursday, saying that the magistrate "erred in both his factual and legal findings, as well as by accepting Posada's grossly insufficient assertion that there was no significant likelihood that he could be removed from the United States within the reasonable foreseeable future."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8KIO2QO1.html

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4. In other words there's a election next month

so don't rock the boat.

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6. So, there are are few honest lawyers left working for US Gov't

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. This is One Terrorist the CONservatives Love.