CARACAS, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez issued a statement on Tuesday criticizing the United States for not deporting two Venezuelans linked to 2003 bomb attacks on the Colombian and Spanish embassies in Caracas.
The decision not to extradite Jose Antonio Colina and German Varela, who were former Venezuelan national guard officers, showed that Washington believed "there is good terrorism and bad terrorism", Rodriguez said in the statement.
On April 12, a U.S. court declined to extradite Colina and Varela, currently held at a U.S. immigration center in Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas, saying that they might be persecuted or tortured. Rodriguez said that the torture allegations were a "pretext", noting that there were no cases of torture under President Hugo Chavez's seven-year rule.
George W. Bush on Nations That Protect Terrorists:"United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and
harbor terrorists, because they are equally guilty of murder." -- October 6, 2005
"I laid out a doctrine, David, that said if you
harbor terrorists, you're equally as guilty as the terrorists..." -- November 4, 2004
"And I said right after September the 11th, if you
harbor a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists..." -- February 5, 2004
"When I spoke to Congress more than a year ago, I said that those who
harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves." -- October 7, 2002
"Well, I think most people in the world understand that I was very serious, and they're serious, when we say if you
harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist." -- September 25, 2001
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