(Terrorist) Posada should be released, magistrate tells judge

[Mika]

Posada should be released, magistrate tells judge
In a surprise decision, a federal magistrate in Texas
has recommended that Cuban exile militant Luis Posada
Carriles be released from immigration custody.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15496239.htm

Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles should be released from immigration custody because the attorney general has not classified him as a terrorist and his continued detention runs counter to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling barring indefinite detention for foreign nationals who cannot be deported, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.

In a 24-page decision, U.S. Magistrate Norbert Garney in El Paso, Texas, wrote that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should put Posada under supervised release because the federal government had failed to find a country willing to take the 78-year-old exile, who has Venezuelan citizenship.

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Before his detention, Posada had been hiding in Miami-Dade after sneaking into the United States in March 2005.
He arrived from Honduras where he had been hiding since being freed from jail in Panama where he had been convicted in connection with an alleged plot to kill Fidel Castro in 2000.

The alleged plot was just one of many the CIA-trained Posada was accused of hatching over the years -- all of which he has denied.
In 1997 and 1998 the Cuban government accused Posada of playing a role in bombings in tourist spots on the island, and in 1976 he was arrested and charged in Venezuela with the bombing of a Cuban jetliner off Barbados.

But.. I thought that any nation that harbored terra-ists.. oh.. right...... Never mind.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Is this one of our hit guys who has no place to go

and now we have turned our back on him.

[acmavm]

2. He's not my hit guy. I don't support murder of innocents in

an airplane by a crazed killer with an agenda.

[eccles12]

3. So we can now add "harboring terrorists" to the list of charges on Bush?

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Of course, the M$M calls Posada and his pals 'Activists'

and then proceed to ignore the story and the connections to the Bush family.

Yet, Bush continues to link Iraq to 9-11 and now quotes bin Laden in his speech.

[Mika]

6. Like Posada, Osama bin Laden is an "activist" too.

The OP story says that no nation wants Posada. WRONG/LIE.

Venezuela has demanded that the US live up to the mutual extradition agreement and wants Posada extradited to Ven for prosecution.

A US judge has nixed that, saying in an ironic ruling that Posada has legitimate fears of being tortured in Venezuela.

Really, its the US gov of _{GW Bush} that doesn't want him extradited.

[bluestateguy]

5. Well the Yankees are going to need him for the playoffs, so I can see why

nt

[Katzenjammer]

7. I wonder how big the bribe was. (nt)

[Up2Late]

8. Cuban bomb suspect to be released (BBC News)

Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 15:34 GMT 16:34 UK

Cuban bomb suspect to be released

A US court has ruled that a Cuban wanted on terrorism charges by Cuba and Venezuela should be set free from a Texas immigration detention centre.

Ex-CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles was held for crossing illegally from Mexico after serving time in Panama for plotting to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro. Mr Posada Carriles faces deportation, but it cannot be to Cuba or Venezuela.

Venezuela, which says he was behind a 1976 plane bombing that killed 73 people, condemned the latest ruling.

A Venezuelan government spokesman, Eric Wingerter, said the fact the ruling came on the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks would be particularly insulting to the families of those who died in the bombing of the Cuban airliner.

(more at link) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5338930.stm>

[lumpy]

9. US administration harbors terrorist.

Bottom line.

[IChing]

10. I am glad all the anti-conspiracies' and the I/P forum are commenting

on this, also the anti Chavez neo-liberals

[HuffleClaw]

11. they let a REAL terrorist go free while at the same time prosecute

'thought criminals'. hmmmmmmm.