Is anyone keeping track of Posada's extradition hearing?

[genius]

The California Democratic Party has called for his extradition. Posada is a terrorist who blew up an airliner. He escaped from a Venezuelan prison.

[hiley]

1. Amy Goodman is covering this...

The Posada Files: El Paso Judge to Determine Whether Bay of Pigs Was
Terrorist Act *

Cuban-born former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles is facing a
deportation hearing El Paso today. The judge will look at Posada's record to determine whether he should get asylum in the United States. Protests around the U.S. and Canada are calling for Posada's extradition to Venezuela for masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/29/145216

[hiley]

2. Posada

IMMIGRATION
Posada asylum trial to open
The asylum trial of Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles begins today in Texas.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND OSCAR CORRAL
[e-mail]

Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, accused of terrorism against Cuba, goes before a U.S. immigration judge in El Paso today to plead for asylum, claiming that Fidel Castro is persecuting him.

In a second phase of the trial later this year, the U.S. government is expected to argue that Posada -- who has been accused, among other violent acts, of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people -- must be denied asylum because immigration law prohibits it for suspects of terrorism and serious crimes.

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It also poses a dilemma for the Bush administration, which is generally sympathetic to South Florida's exile community, but must weigh the case within the context of the post-9/11 war on terrorism.

Posada's lawyers anticipate calling as witnesses two Cuban torture victims and a Venezuelan human rights expert. They have submitted human rights reports to support arguments that their client would be tortured if deported to Cuba or Venezuela -- respectively, his countries of birth and citizenship. Though immigration officials have signaled they will not send Posada to either country, the decision is up to the judge.

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/12504960.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Have you seen his declassified records?

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/

[genius]

3. It should be 4 P.M. there by now. Is the decision likely to come today?

[hiley]

4. I don't know for sure but I doubt the decision will be today.

Should have been made when he first came into this country what with NO FLY LISTS and all. Hugo Chavez wants him extradited but Bush and co. (I think) only picked him up because of the pressure they received from groups calling for his arrest.