Posada comes back to Dade, but he's under wraps

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Mon, May. 14, 2007
Posada comes back to Dade, but he's under wraps
A high-profile Cuban exile militant has returned to South Florida, but he remains out of sight.
BY TANIA VALDEMORO
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Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile militant, arrived back in South Florida on Saturday, his attorney, Arturo Hernandez, told The Miami Herald.

Posada, who is on a federal no-fly list, returned by car from El Paso, where he was awaiting trial on immigration fraud charges that alleged he lied about how he sneaked into the country two years ago.But the federal judge in the case threw out the indictment on the eve of trial, setting him free.

The 79-year-old, however, did not go back to his wife's West Kendall apartment, where he had stayed for awhile under pre-trial house arrest. He is staying at an undisclosed location in Miami-Dade to maintain his privacy and security, Hernandez said.
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Although Posada is considered a hero among some in the Cuban exile community, the Venezuelan government has accused him of being involved in a 1976 bomb attack against a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people.

Also, the Cuban government has accused Posada of masterminding a series of tourist site bombings in 1997 that killed an Italian.




Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/106007.html

[wakeme2008]

1. And NJ is looking to charge him

do not know for what.

[damntexdem]

2. Well, at least he's being punished:

being kept in wraps in south Florida at this time of year is downright torture.

;-)

Why not send him to Gitmo -- then shift his location a few miles further east?

[PDJane]

3. I thought the US didn't sponsor terrorism????

Never mind...........

[Mika]

4. Wow!! He's on the no fly list! I am amazed.

I guess that it might look just a little too hypocritical to allow an airline bomber on an airliner for his flight to Miami.

:+

[Judi Lynn]

5. Could be his fear of reaping what he has sewn caused him to put himself on a no-fly list,

and blame it on the authorities!

He probably knows they would like to see him go up in a ball of flames by now, since he really does know a lot of CIA Iran/Contra/official US terrorism against Cuba secrets which could give other countries a lot to think about!

I'll bet his wish to avoid planes comes as a result of his conscience gnawing, in the long hours he really can't sleep, despite his boast to the New York Times that he can "sleep like a baby."

[Judi Lynn]

6. Mastermind behind terror in Cuba walks freely in U.S.

Mastermind behind terror in Cuba walks freely in U.S.
BUSH SELECTIVE ABOUT THOSE HE'LL GO AFTER
By Rosa Brooks
Article Launched: 05/14/2007 01:33:45 AM PDT

Like pirates, terrorists are supposedly hostis humani generis - the "enemy of all mankind." So why is the Bush administration letting one of the world's most notorious terrorists stroll freely around the United States?

I'm talking about a man who was - until Sept. 11, 2001 - perhaps the most successful terrorist in the Western Hemisphere. He's believed to have masterminded a 1976 plot to blow up a civilian airliner, killing all 73 people on board, including teenage members of Cuba's national fencing team. He's admitted to pulling off a series of 1997 bombings aimed at tourist hotels and nightspots. Today, he's living illegally in the United States, but senior members of the Bush administration - the very guys who declared war on terror just a few short years ago - don't seem terribly bothered.

I'm talking about Luis Posada Carriles. That's not a household name for most U.S. citizens, but for many in Latin America, Posada is as reviled as Osama bin Laden is in the United States.

The Cuban-born Posada was trained by the CIA at the School of the Americas in 1961. From Venezuela, he planned the successful 1976 bombing of a civilian Cuban jetliner, apparently with the knowledge of the CIA. He was arrested for the crime but escaped from a Venezuelan prison before standing trial.

Posada later aided Ollie North's illegal efforts to get arms to the Nicaraguan Contras, tried repeatedly to assassinate Fidel Castro and was behind a 1997 string of Havana hotel bombings. Recently declassified U.S. government documents suggest that, throughout most of his career, Posada remained in close contact with the CIA.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_5891605?nclick_check=1

[peekaloo]

7. Does Jeb have a house in Miami?

[Scurrilous]

8. He has a condo in Coral Gables.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2006/11/jeb_moving_on_u.html

Jeb moving on up

"First Gov. Jeb Bush got a new car. Now he's getting a new place to live. Bush is going to move into the Segovia Tower, a fancy condo in Coral Gables. Rent is $5,500 per month for the 3,949 square foot unit. The condo has three bedrooms, overlooks Granada Golf Course and is walking distance to Miracle Mile."



http://www.miamicondolifestyle.com/segovia-tower.php

[Judi Lynn]

9. Justice Department investigates Posada Carriles

Justice Department investigates Posada Carriles
Submitted by WW4 Report on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 02:46.

A federal grand jury in Newark, NJ, has been investigating charges that Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles masterminded the bombings of hotels in Cuba in 1997 that resulted in the death of one Italian-Canadian tourist. The Miami Herald revealed on May 3 that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cuban government have been cooperating to an unusual degree on this investigation, with FBI agents traveling to Havana in the fall of 2006.

The agents "were able to interview witnesses, review Cuba's forensic evidence—including bombing materials—and visit crime scenes," according to the Herald. Both Cuban and US investigators have found evidence of a conspiracy running from New Jersey to Miami to Central America to finance the bombings, including $19,000 in wire transfers from the US to "Ramon Medina," a Posada alias, in El Salvador and Guatemala from Oct. 30, 1996, to Jan. 14, 1998. (MH, May 3)

On May 4 the National Security Archive, a Washington, DC-based research group, released documents from the 1970s on the 1976 Cuban airline bombing. One was a "surveillance report" by Hernan Ricardo Lozano, a Venezuelan who worked for Posada's private security firm in Caracas. Ricardo listed several "targets," including Cuban jetliner flights. Ricardo was convicted in Venezuela and served about 10 years in prison. (MH, May 5)

On May 9 Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) called on the US to try Posada under its own antiterrorism laws. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) sent Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff a letter asking why the US ignored Venezuela's 2005 extradition request without filing its own terrorism charges against Posada. ("DN!," May 10; LJ, May 10)

http://www.ww4report.com/node/3828