Court: Gov't Can't Hold Cuban Militant (Posada)

[Mika]

Source: NY Times

An appeals court on Tuesday denied the U.S. government's latest bid to keep anti-Castro Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles jailed until his May trial on immigration fraud charges.

The decision by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a decision last week to temporarily block Posada from being released from the Otero County, N.M., jail on $250,000 bond.

One of his lawyers said it was unclear when the 79-year-old former CIA operative could be set free. He will have to return to El Paso, where the criminal case is being heard, to refile paperwork guaranteeing his bond.

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Dean Boyd, a Department of Justice spokesman, said his agency was evaluating its options.

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NY Times: Venezuelan-Cuban terrorist = militant :puke:

[AwareOne]

1. The U.S. is protecting Posada by keeping him in jail

so he can't be deported to Venezuela or Cuba to stand trial for terrorism. If they are forced to release him, won't he just disappear, like the two anti Chavez coup plotters who recently walked out of jail in Venezuela?

[Mika]

3. Court has ruled that Posada can't be extradited to Cuba or Venezuela because..

.. of a possibility of his being subjected to torture. :crazy:

No country wants him, so he gets to stay in the US. He gets to walk free because the courts have ruled that the US can't detain him indefinitely.

[acmavm]

4. WTF? WTF? WTF? WTF?

Am I crazy or does no one else see the insanity? This bastard is a known killer, a killer of innocents. He's brought down planes with civilians on it. People who didn't do a damn thing to anyone, he blew them out of the sky. HE IS A TERRORIST!!

And then they say he can't be incarcerated indefinitely? I beg to differ. Just ask the clucks down in Gitmo. They'll frigging tell you differently.

Like I said before: WTF? WTF? WTF? WTF?

[Kagemusha]

2. Militant's a stronger word than I've often seen honestly.

Where Posada and his ilk are concerned, I mean. I don't expect a lot from the NY Times on these issues anyway though.

[jlove23]

5. The President declared no nation harboring terrorists

would be exempt from the GWOT.