Posada makes 1st court appearance

[Judi Lynn]

Jan. 16, 2007, 8:46PM
Posada makes 1st court appearance

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press

EL PASO, Texas — An anti-Castro militant indicted on charges of lying to federal immigration agents in a bid to become a naturalized citizen made his first court appearance Tuesday.

Shackled at the wrists and ankles, Luis Posada Carriles was read the charges in a seven-count indictment made public last week but did not enter a plea. He was ordered held without bail pending a bond hearing Friday.
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Posada is wanted by the governments of Cuba and Venezuela to face trial on a charge that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner. But a federal immigration judge who ordered Posada out of the United States ruled he could not be sent to either country.

Several countries have rejected U.S. requests for Posada to be sent there.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4475535.html

[madeline_con]

1. When can we deport our own homegrown #1 terrorist?

Oh, never mind. No one would take him, either. :(

[Judi Lynn]

2. It seems as if he's attracted crowds of protesters every time he has left the country.

Seems so very, very long ago he first went to Sweden, if I'm not mistaken, on his first trip, and a group of them mooned him.

Doesn't it seem _Bush has been here around 20, 25 years already? Jeez.

[madeline_con]

4. No doubt!

It Does seem like it's been a very long time.

He's really caused a lot of death and destruction in his time in the WH. It will take decades to undo some of it, while part of it will never heal. :(

[Mika]

3. Venezuela would take him. He's wanted there on terra charges.

He was busted out of a Ven prison (in an op funded by the CANF and Bacardi) while awaiting trial on terra charges.

But, the US has refused to extradict him to Ven (despite a Ven/US extradition agreement) because the US courts proclaimed that Posada might be tortured there.