US urged to find Cuban suspect

[emad]

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday May 10, 2005
The Guardian

The Bush administration was under pressure yesterday to track down a Cuban exile and former CIA agent implicated in a series of terrorist attacks.

In the next few days, the Venezuelan government is due to demand the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles in connection with the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, in which 73 people died. He is said to be hiding in Florida.

Mr Posada, 77, has also admitted carrying out attacks on Cuban tourist sites, including one in 1997 in which an Italian was killed. He was convicted in Panama over a 2000 plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Since being pardoned last year by the former Panamanian president Mireya Moscoso, Mr Posada has travelled around Central America in search of a haven and according to his lawyer, Eduardo Soto, slipped into the US illegally across the Mexican border in March.
Mr Soto said he intended to seek political asylum on the strength of his work for the CIA in its efforts to oust President Castro in the 1960s.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1480198,00.html

[Mika]

1. Posada's lawyer says he's in Miami..

.. meantime, Roger Noriega says he doesn't know if Posada is in the US. :eyes:




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