Posada's presence would rally exiles, perplex U.S.

[Say_What]

Poppy pardoned Posada's pal and coconspirator Orlando Bosch Avila--it would not surprise me if TortureBoy welcomes the terrorist Posada with open arms. My feeling is that he would not turn himself in if he didn't know the fix was in.

Welcome to Miami!! muriKa's Terrorist Central.

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If anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles is indeed in Miami and presents himself to authorities, it would be the ultimate nonfiction spin on `The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.'

...But by 1967 he was working with the Venezuelan police, tracking down pro-Castro guerrillas. And until 1976, when he and Miami pediatrician Orlando Bosch were arrested in Caracas for the midair bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, he had been just another anti-Castro militant.

Venezuela's cumbersome legal system never convicted either man for the airplane bombing. Bosch eventually won his freedom, but Posada escaped from prison, while awaiting a prosecutor's appeal, in August 1985.

One year later he turned up in El Salvador, secretly working for U.S. National Security Council member Lt. Col. Oliver North and managing part of the supply operations for contra guerrillas fighting the Marxist-led Sandinista government in Nicaragua. At the same time, The Herald reported, he was infiltrating the Salvadoran right on behalf of President Jose Napoleon Duarte.

Then, in 1990, he hit the headlines again after gunmen nearly killed him in Guatemala City, where the government had hired him as an expert in electronic surveillance. The attack, with silencer-equipped automatic weapons, shattered his jaw and left him with permanent speech difficulties that force him to slurp between phrases.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11298048.htm

[Say_What]

1. Jamaica Observer: Posada seeking asylum to avoid extradition to Venezuela

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Cuban bombing suspect to seek asylum in US

MIAMI (AP) - A lawyer for a Cuban militant suspected of plotting to kill Fidel Castro said he plans to seek US asylum to avoid extradition to Venezuela, where he is accused of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976.

Luis Posada Carriles, 77, was released from a Panamanian prison last year, when he was pardoned by the country's former president for his role in an alleged plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 2000. His whereabouts are unclear.

The attorney, Eduardo Soto, said he planned to file an application for asylum as soon as Posada is ready to come forward. Soto said his services were retained by intermediaries.

Foreigners seeking asylum are generally allowed to stay in the United States while their case is decided and could remain permanently if they are proven to face persecution.
"I anticipate a huge struggle here, both on the immigration front and in other matters," Soto told The Miami Herald in yesterday's editions. He did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050401T210000-0500_77886_OBS_CUBAN_BOMBING_SUSPECT_TO_SEEK_ASYLUM_IN_US.asp

[NYC]

2. There's a difference between persecution and prosecution.

...Foreigners seeking asylum are generally allowed to stay in the United States while their case is decided and could remain permanently if they are proven to face persecution...

[Say_What]

5. Self-admitted Terrorist persecuted?? LOL

This guy has a very LONG history of terrorist acts, which he ADMITS to.

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A BOMBER'S TALE

A Cuban exile who has waged a campaign of bombings and assassination attempts aimed at toppling Fidel Castro says that his efforts were supported financially for more than a decade by the Cuban-American leaders of one of America's most influential lobbying groups.

The exile, Luis Posada Carriles, said he organized a wave of bombings in Cuba last year at hotels, restaurants and discothèques, killing an Italian tourist and alarming the Cuban Government. Posada was schooled in demolition and guerrilla warfare by the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960's.

In a series of tape-recorded interviews at a walled Caribbean compound, Posada said the hotel bombings and other operations had been supported by leaders of the Cuban-American National Foundation. Its founder and head, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died last year, was embraced at the White House by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton.

A powerful force in both Florida and national elections, and a prodigious campaign donor, Mas played a decisive role in persuading Clinton to change his mind and follow a course of sanctions and isolation against Castro's Cuba.

Although the tax-exempt foundation has declared that it seeks to bring down Cuba's Communist Government solely through peaceful means, Posada said leaders of the foundation discreetly financed his operations. Mas personally supervised the flow of money and logistical support, he said.

"Jorge controlled everything," Posada said. "Whenever I needed money, he said to give me $5,000, give me $10,000, give me $15,000, and they sent it to me."

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/071298cuba-plot.html

[Judi Lynn]

3. It's natural Venezuela would want him to finish serving his term

for helping to blow up the Cubana airliner, and all 73 people, including students, on board.

He has publically stated the Cuban American National Foundation helped bribe authorities so he could sneak out of jail far short of his assigned sentence. If I'm not mistaken, he's the one they dressed as a Catholic priest to make an easy quick exit. Tacky.

He would be PROsecuted, no doubt, but surely not persecuted, although the families of all the murdered people he rudely dispatched would probably be happy to give him some persecution he'd never forget.

[struggle4progress]

4. Another of Poppy Bush's terrorist cronies.

[Mika]

6. When will Miami name a street and a day for him Posada?

Just like they did for Orlando Bosch. (No joke. They really do have an Orlando Bosch Ave, as well as an official Orlando Bosch day.)




On March 7th, President Bush nominated John Bolton, who’s dedicated his life to undermining the United Nations, to be our UN Ambassador. In April, the Senate will decide to approve this nomination or not. We must not stand for this.

http://www.stopbolton.org/

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thanks for bringing up Orlando Bosch Avenue.

Orlando Bosch Day was bad enough (for normal people...). It would be natural for the Miami City Commissioners, in all their wisdom, to establish a Luis Posada Carriles Day. After all, he's just as famous among the "First Wave" "exiles" as is Orlando Bosch.

Bosch quote for the ages:

"There were no innocents on that plane."
(In reference to the 73 people slaughtered in the mid-air bombing of the Cubana airliner, including the entire Cuban fencing team, and Guyanese students.)

Exclusion proceeding for Orlando Bosch Avila, by the Acting Assistant Attorney General, which was voided by _{George H. W. Bush's} administrative pardon of this foul blood-feasting ghoul:
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_051-075/doc0054.html



"Freedom fighters" or do they look like vicious criminals?

Why NOT host them both after they spent their entire lives killing Cubans, and plotting to do it again? They would be "persecuted," after all, by the countries which have a real grudge against them. Orlando Bosch has been denied entry by over THIRTY COUNTRIES as it is. I've got an idea: maybe _Bush can have one of his "Coalition of the Willing" countries put them up, since they apparently are afraid to say "no" to him.

[Mika]

8. His US lawyer, Batistas grandson, JEB appointed to FL. Supreme Court Judge

FLORIDA GOVERNOR JEB BUSH SENDS FULGENCIO BATISTA'S GRANDSON TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go1655/is_200207/ai_n7161718

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush named Raoul Cantero III to a seat on the state Supreme Court. Cantero is the grandson of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista (1933-1959). Cantero supporters praised his accomplishments as a lawyer while opponents tried to draw attention to his role in acquiring a pardon and permanent US residence for convicted anti-Castro terrorist Orlando Bosch.

The BushCrimeNazis are some sick f*cks.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Takes a while for that to sink in.

Brutal, corrupt, vicious U.S.-supported, U.S. Mafia-serving, murderous, (and torture-loving) dictator, Fulgencio Batista's GRANDSON, Raoul Cantero served mass-murdering, long-time bomber Orlando Bosch as a personal lawyer, and _{Jeb Bush} appointed him to the Florida Supreme Court.