Cuban militant released on U.S. bond

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Cuban militant released on U.S. bond

1 hour, 11 minutes ago

EL PASO, Texas - Anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles, an aging
ex-CIA operative suspected in a decades-old airliner bombing, was
released from U.S. custody Thursday pending his trial on charges of
immigration fraud, his lawyer said.

Posada posted bond at a New Mexico jail and is en route to his wife's
house in Miami, said his lawyer, Felipe D.J. Millan. He was required
to post $250,000, and his wife, daughter and son were required to
post $100,000 bond to secure his release.

Millan said immigration authorities were not detaining Posada, though
there is an outstanding order of deportation.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman in El Paso
didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_re_us/cuban_militant

[acmavm]

1. They need to enforce that deportation order. NOW!

[Mika]

2. The admin has tried, but no country will take him,

Of course, Venezuela insists that the US honor the extradition agreement between the US and Ven, but the US courts refuse to extradite Posada to Ven because of the fear that he will be subjected to torture there - despite Chavez's promise that he would be treated well.

[acmavm]

3. Yeah yeah yeah, I know all this shit. Plain and simple they need to

follow the rule of law and send him to Venezuela for trial.

Friggin' we torture, why should we worry about anybody else? We send people to the worst nations on earth to be tortured.

This is bullshit.

[Mika]

4. Info that might interest you

LUIS POSADA CARRILES
THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD
CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism; Connection to U.S.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm

[burrowowl]

5. Headline should read:

U$ backed Terrorist of Cuban Origin!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[anotherdrew]

6. I hope Venezuelan secret police come and extraordinarily render him off to justice n/t

[Judi Lynn]

7. Bush's people could always borrow inspiration from the 1960's "Operation Northwoods," and kill him,

then claim it was either Cuban or Venezuelan operatives who did him in, and launch an attack on the country in retaliation.

They would also be able to snuff a man who knows a TON about Iran-Contra, and his own work for the CIA, and his work as the head of secret police in Venezuela (during which he ordered torture to prisoners himself).

Two birds with one stone. It's already been conceived all the way back in the 1960's, and signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[Up2Late]

8. Here's a good interview! U.S. Release of Exile Angers Cuba, Venezuela (NPR)

U.S. Release of Exile Angers Cuba, Venezuela

Listen to this story...(at link)

All Things Considered, April 19, 2007 · Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles
was released from federal custody in New Mexico today;
he is headed for his wife's house in Miami.

The anti-Castro militant will be under house arrest
— and will still stand trial for immigration fraud.
But his release is sure to create anger in Cuba and
Venezuela. Both countries want Carriles in connection
with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.

Michele Norris talks with Peter Kornbluh, director of the
Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive,
who posted CIA and FBI documents with evidence of his
terrorist activities in Cuba and Venezuela.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9692310>

[Judi Lynn]

9. U.S. criticized as Cuban exile is freed

U.S. criticized as Cuban exile is freed
Luis Posada Carriles is wanted by Venezuela in connection with a 1976 jetliner bombing.
By Carol J. Williams, Times Staff Writer
April 20, 2007


MIAMI — An exiled Cuban militant wanted by Venezuela in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner was released from jail Thursday and allowed to return to his home here to await trial on charges of violating immigration law.

The Bush administration's inability to keep former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles locked up sparked broad condemnation throughout Latin America and among critics of U.S.-Cuba policy. It also provoked accusations that the White House maintains a double standard on terrorism, punishing those who strike at the United States while giving shelter to a man who has admitted to deadly violence against his communist-ruled homeland.

An international fugitive for the last 22 years, Posada was arrested here in May 2005, two months after slipping into the United States, and sent to an immigration lockup in El Paso. A federal magistrate ordered him deported, but none of the countries contacted by the State Department would accept him.

Although slowed by age, incarceration and injuries sustained in bombings and shootouts, the 79-year-old Posada is seen in Latin America as a ruthless assassin so bent on destroying Fidel Castro's Cuba that he is willing to take innocent lives. Many of the 73 people killed aboard the Cubana de Aviacion plane were teenagers returning from an athletics competition in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 1997, an Italian tourist bled to death in a Havana hotel bombing for which Posada took credit during an interview with a journalist.

More:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-posada20apr20,1,2202043.story?coll=la-headlines-world

[Judi Lynn]

10. U.S. Releases Cuban Bombing Suspect

U.S. Releases Cuban Bombing Suspect
By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: April 20, 2007

A 79-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former C.I.A. operative linked to the bombing of a Cuban airliner was released on bail yesterday and immediately returned to Miami to await trial on immigration fraud charges.

The man, Luis Posada Carriles, was released from the Otero County Prison in Chaparral, N.M., after posting a $350,000 bond on the immigration charges.

His release infuriated the authorities in Cuba and Venezuela, who have been trying to extradite him to stand trial over the 1976 airliner bombing, which killed 73 people, including several teenage members of Cuba’s national fencing team.

The United States Justice Department had tried unsuccessfully to prevent his release, arguing that his escape from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 increased the risk that he might flee before the scheduled start of his trial on immigration charges on May 11.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/world/americas/20posada.html?ref=world

[dipsydoodle]

11. BBC link

A former CIA employee, he is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba over the downing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in which 73 people died. He denies involvement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6573731.stm

[thinkbridge]

12. double standard on torture

here's a guy they're worried sick about being tortured

has he ever been tried for that bombing and convicted? has he ever had any kind of due process? or do they know that he did it because it was their own plan?

there's some more guys, maybe hundreds, they farm out for torture overseas - deliberately

some of them have never had due process, and their own records indicate many are actually innocent

So what's the administration's policy on torture? Who do you protect from torture? And who do you send to the slashers?

[Judi Lynn]

14. As he boasted to the New York Times during his interview, the Cuban American National Foundation

bribed guards in a Venezuelan prison and he was able to escape BEFORE HIS TRIAL.

Just check for "A Bomber's Tale" in any search, for the very large interview by Ann Louise Bardach and another journalist, in the N.Y. Times, and reprinted by tons of other publications.

Of course they know that. They have men he hired who did the actual planting who have testified against him.

If you have questions about things, you owe it to yourself to FIND OUT, just as the rest of us must.

[Judi Lynn]

15. Cubans stage rallies across the country, angered by US release of anti-Castro exile

Cubans stage rallies across the country, angered by US release of anti-Castro exile
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 04/20/2007 03:30:20 AM PDT


HAVANA- Hundreds of Cubans chanted "Justice! Justice!" outside the American mission in Havana as protests erupted across the island after an anti-Castro exile wanted in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner was released from federal prison in New Mexico. Luis Posada Carriles' release on bail also angered Venezuela, which accused the Bush administration of hypocrisy in its policy on terrorism and vowed a diplomatic offensive to put him on trial for the bombing that killed 73 people. "George Bush's government is an accomplice of this terrorist," Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said. "It has protected him and today it has guaranteed his freedom, striking a blow against and mocking international law." Earlier Thursday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez demanded that the U.S. extradite the Cuban-born Posada, an ex-CIA agent who is a longtime opponent of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Posada, 79, is accused of plotting the Cubana Airlines bombing while living in Caracas. He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 and was detained in Florida in May 2005 for entering the United States illegally.
(snip/)

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_5712451?nclick_check=1

[Up2Late]

16. "...has he ever been tried for that bombing and convicted?" Not yet, He escaped from prison in 1985!

Most believe with the help of the CIA.

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5411878.stm>

"...Venezuela wants to try Mr Posada - who was born in Cuba but has Venezuelan citizenship - in connection with the bombing of the plane, which was flying to Cuba from Caracas.

The BBC's Greg Morsbach in Caracas says the Venezuelan authorities are quietly satisfied that for time being the man on their wanted list is not being set free.

He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 while awaiting a trial on appeal.

Mr Posada, now 78, was later convicted in Panama of trying to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a summit in the country in 2002...."

All the CIA files on this guy have been De-classified, read them your self at these links:

<http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB157/index.htm>

<http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm>

<http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB202/index.htm>

<http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/>

[thinkbridge]

13. double standard on torture

here's a guy they're worried sick about being tortured

has he ever been tried for that bombing and convicted? has he ever had any kind of due process? or do they know that he did it because it was their own plan?

there's some more guys, maybe hundreds, they farm out for torture overseas - deliberately

some of them have never had due process, and their own records indicate many are actually innocent

So what's the administration's policy on torture? Who do you protect from torture? And who do you send to the slashers?