Who was the Cuban terrorist hijacker that HW Bush pardoned?

[mistertrickster]

Can't find him in a google search . . .

[mistertrickster]

1. kicking so it doesn't get buried nt

[PunkPop]

2. Orlando Bosch

He was Luis Posada Carriles' partner in the bombing of the Venezuelan airliner in 1976 among other things I believe.

[mistertrickster]

4. Great, thanks, you can't find anything about this in "the liberal media"

hehe . . .

Appreciate your help!

[radwriter0555]

5. Orlando Bosch, yes. He had ties to influential booze cartels, didn't he?

Like the Baccardi people?

[tuvor]

3. What search terms were you using?

I used cuban/bush/pardoned and got this:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/083105.html

[Gabi Hayes]

6. he was paroled by GHWB, at the behest of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

not pardoned, FWIW

guess who her campaign manager was for her first run for congress

wait a minute for some parole details

[tuvor]

7. The link I posted says otherwise, FWIW

I thought ConsortiumNews had an excellent reputation...

"But Bosch got lucky. Jeb Bush, then an aspiring Florida politician, led a lobbying drive to prevent the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from expelling Bosch. In 1990, the lobbying paid dividends when Jeb's dad, President George H.W. Bush, pardoned Bosch, allowing the unapologetic terrorist to remain in the United States."

[Gabi Hayes]

9. that's wrong, result of repeating incorrect info over and over again

I've done a bunch of reading on this, and he was absolutely NOT pardoned, a distinction without a differnce, AFAIC

he should never have been allowed out of Venezuela in the first place; rotting in prison is much too good for the likes of that terrorist

[Gabi Hayes]

8. here

On July 18, 1990, Bosch was granted parole on the recommendation or order of George Herbert Walker Bush, and allowed to live under some temporary supervisory restrictions in Miami, although being allowed to walk the streets there and mingle with members of the community. The circumstances of the parole don’t exactly pass the smell test. According to The Washington Post of August 18, 1990: “In June, U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler asked government attorneys why nothing had yet happened on Bosch’s case. He gave them another month to find a suitable home country for Bosch, and on the eve of that court date, Bosch received the three- page offer for release into house arrest. Justice Department spokesman Dan Eramian said the decision to release Bosch was made for ‘humanitarian reasons,’ but that the government will continue to try to deport him.”

That, of course, never happened. He’s still free. As is usually the case with the affairs of the Bushes, other Bosch trails lead to links with the CIA, the Mafia, and covert operations. There are claims that Bosch was a CIA operative.

There’s even a tight connection to Frank Sturgis, the man thought to have killed President John Kennedy. Orlando Bosch was one of the Cuban nationals known to be traveling from Miami to Dallas with weapons on Nov. 21–22. (http://www.aristotle.net/~mstandridge/knollmen.htm).

Bosch’s name shows up in the report of the Warren Commission as one of those investigated in the Kennedy assassination. . In The Nation magazine in 1990, author David Corn wrote: “In yet another parole violation Bosch is now, according to The Miami Herald, organizing a group to raise money to buy and ship arms to Castro’s foes in Cuba.

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=8976&fcategory_desc=The%20Bush%20Crime%20Family