Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles's day in court may be here

[Judi Lynn]

Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles's day in court may be here
Albor Ruiz - Ny Local

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 4:00 AM

He is 82 years old, but a kindly grandfather he is not.

Actually, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and a longtime CIA operative, is a convicted terrorist in two countries who escaped from a Venezuelan jail and was infamously pardoned in Panama.

A dangerous criminal with a long and deadly rap sheet, he is named in U.S. intelligence reports as the mastermind behind the 1976 bombing of Cubana Airlines Fight 455, which killed the 73 passengers on board, including the Cuban national fencing team. Posada Carriles is also linked to a string of hotel bombings in Cuba, resulting in the death of Italian tourist Fabio diCelmo, something he would later brag about in a 1998 New York Times interview.

"The Italian was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I sleep like a baby," Posada Carriles told the newspaper.

Not a man deterred by small details, he was convicted in 2000 of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro during a summit in Panama. The plot called for using 200 pounds of dynamite and C-4 explosives to blow up an auditorium - listen to this - packed with college students. He served four years before being pardoned.

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