The Terrorist Posada Is In Custody!

[Itsthetruth]

Just announced on CNN. Homeland Security has picked him up.

Will provide links as soon as possible.

[Renew Deal]

1. The Yankee's catcher?

I've heard them called the evil empire, but this is extreme.

[joeybee12]

2. Steinbrenner is next!

Is this a great country, or what?

[Career Prole]

3. LOL!

Osama bin Steinbrenner....we will rest at nothing.

[Renew Deal]

6. And look at the red sox fans come out of the woodwork.

:toast:

[MaineDem]

5. That was my first thought, too

:D:

[doublethink]

18. Wow those Cubans take their baseball pretty seriously ...

don't they? :wow: I mean a couple hundred thousand people protesting in Cuba over this ....... :wow:

[wicket]

27. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:D

[Roland99]

4. Countdown to postive spin for the WoT in 3...2...1....

[Itsthetruth]

8. Today's Mass March Against Terrorism Held In Havana Put The Heat On Bush!

Castro leads huge protest outside U.S. mission
Cuba wants U.S. to arrest exile accused of terrorism
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Posted: 8:51 AM EDT (1251 GMT)

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched past the U.S. mission in Havana on Tuesday.


HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of Cubans answered Fidel Castro's call to file past the American mission early Tuesday in a "March against Terrorism," demanding that the United States arrest a Cuban militant in the deadly bombing of an airliner.

Dressed in his traditional olive green military uniform and cap, the 78-year-old Castro showed up in the crowd outside the U.S. Interests Section minutes before the march was to start.

"Down with terrorism!" Castro shouted in brief comments before he stepped off to lead the march. "Down with Nazi doctrines and methods! Down with the lies!"

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/17/cuba.ap/index.html

[Roland99]

9. * appeasing the Communists? Oh my!

:rofl:

[MaineDem]

10. I think you may be correct

That was an impressive display in Cuba. Maybe someone in the White House was watching it too.

[Career Prole]

7. This guy maybe?

Posada could give up asylum bid
By ALFONSO CHARDY And OSCAR CORRAL
Herald staff writers

Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban exile militant Venezuela wants extradited for allegedly blowing up a Cuban plane in 1976, met with reporters in South Florida Tuesday and said he was reconsidering his application for asylum in the United States.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11668567.htm

:shrug:

[Itsthetruth]

12. More On Cuban Mass March Against Terrorism

Cubans March, Demand Arrest of Exile

By ANITA SNOW
Tahlequah Daily Press
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:05 PM CDT

HAVANA - Fidel Castro led hundreds of thousands of Cubans past the U.S. mission Tuesday to demand the United States arrest a Cuban exile sought in the bombing of an airliner, accusing Washington of hypocrisy in its war on terror for not clamping down on his longtime foe.

The Cuban leader's campaign for the arrest of Luis Posada Carriles, sought for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, is the most intense media battle he has waged since the international custody struggle over young Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez.

"This is not a march against the people of the United States," said the 78-year-old Castro, differentiating between Americans and their government. "It is a march against terrorism, in favor of life and of peace."

For more than four hours, huge rivers of people, many chanting and waving tiny Cuban flags, spilled from side streets onto the Malecon coastal highway running past the mission. "Punishment for the assassins!" a child shouted over a loudspeaker. "Bush, terrorist!" chanted another.

http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/articles/2005/05/16/ap/headlines/d8a53vc80.txt

[DoYouEverWonder]

13. Gee, just yesterday he was giving interviews

I guess that was too much for even the HS types to ignore. Oh well, I guess Luis won't be sipping cafe con leches with Orlando Bosch for a while.

[uppityperson]

11. Pay no attention to the truth behind Gitmo story-Terrorist caught!!

He has been giving interviews. Good thing they might deport him. Now, back to the breaking story: cows on the road causing massive traffic delays!

[Itsthetruth]

15. Will He Be Turned Over To Venezuela?

The real question is will Homeland Security turn over Posada to Venezuela which has demanded his extradiction or will they help smuggle him out of the country to a nation of his choosing?

[Ian David]

14. Let me guess. He's Osama's number three man?

How many number three men does Osama have?

[NNN0LHI]

21. He is another 20th 9/11 hijacker n/t

[killbotfactory]

16. Are we going to extradite him to Cuba?

:rofl:

[Itsthetruth]

17. News Story Says Posada Has Been Arrested

Accused Cuban bomber arrested in Miami- CNN

May 17, 2005 — MIAMI (Reuters) - A Cuban exile accused of bombing a Cuban airliner nearly 30 years ago has been taken into federal custody in Miami, CNN said on Tuesday, two months after he sneaked into the country.

The network cited law enforcement sources who said federal agents had picked up Luis Posada Carriles in Miami, but did not give further details. Venezuela has asked the Bush administration to deport Posada to face trial for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane that killed 73 people.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=765728

[Itsthetruth]

19. Associated Press Story On Posada Detention

U.S. Detains Cuban Linked to 1976 Bombing - Yahoo! News
Posted: Tuesday May 17,2005 - 12:43:54 pm

By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago

MIAMI - Facing growing international pressure, federal immigration authorities Tuesday detained a Cuban militant linked to a deadly 1976 airliner bombing and other acts of anti- Fidel Castro violence who has been seeking asylum in the United States.
Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative and Venezuelan security official, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday afternoon, said Dean Boyd, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Cuban President Fidel Castro's calls for Posada's arrest by U.S. authorities was echoed by thousands in protests in Havana on Tuesday. Castro claims Posada was brought to Miami from Mexico on a shrimp boat, but Posada says he entered the United States through Mexico and came to Miami on a bus.

Earlier Tuesday, Posada told reporters he was willing to leave the United States and his asylum request and go to another country, but he was detained before he could leave, said Santiago Alvarez, his friend and benefactor. Posada had planned to go to a Central American country, Alvarez said. He would not say which country.

"There's no reason for them to detain him, but that's the part of the process in this country," Alvarez said.

http://www.sierratimes.com/rss/newswire.php?article=/news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050517/ap_on_re_us/cuban_militant&time=1116359034&feed=us

[Robbien]

20. It is so surprising they actually took him into custody

Really surprising. I wonder what their next step will be.

Ha! Posada said he would go to a CA country, probably one of the five which are in BushCo's pocket.

[Itsthetruth]

22. Today Venezuela Demanded Bush Government Deliver Posada

""It is so surprising they actually took him into custody"

Without the pressure from Cuba and Venezuela it's unlikely the Bush government would have taken him into custody.

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Accused Cuban bomber emerges from hiding in Miami
Tue May 17, 2005 04:04 PM ET

By Frances Kerry
MIAMI (Reuters) - One million Cubans marched in Havana on Tuesday demanding Washington extradite an accused Cuban airliner bomber who emerged from hiding in Miami, highlighting a dilemma for Washington in its war on terrorism.

The presence in the United States of Posada, a former CIA collaborator and longtime anti-communist activist, has presented U.S. authorities with the dilemma of how to reconcile its sympathy for politically influential Cuban exiles with Washington's firm stance against terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Castro led a protest march of an estimated 1.2 million people past the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on Tuesday to demand that the Bush administration arrest Posada and extradite him to Venezuela, where he is accused of plotting the bombing. "Bush, fascist, capture the terrorist," the crowd chanted. Many protesters called on Washington to extradite Posada.

Venezuela's Interior Minister Jesse Chacon on Tuesday called on Washington to honor a bilateral extradition treaty and deliver up Posada. "This person is a terrorist, there is no other name for him ... the ball is in Mr Bush's court," Chacon told a news conference.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8521204

[LeighAnn]

29. Anxious for the Arrest of Santiago Alvarez, too

When will he be "picked up" for aiding and abetting this terrorist?

I read one of Posada's interviews yesterday, what an arrogant, cocky liar.

[wakeme2008]

23. No Venezuela

:) almost as bad for Bushie......

[Straight Shooter]

24. But, but, but ... Posada is the bush family's favorite terrorist

The Bush administration even remains equivocal on the possibility of granting asylum to protect him from an extradition request lodged by Venezuela, where Posada is wanted to face charges he masterminded the in-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner that killed 73 people in 1976.

Posada also has admitted to plotting a lethal bombing campaign against popular Cuban restaurants and hotels in 1997, which killed an Italian tourist. In April 2004, Posada was convicted in Panama for another bombing plot aimed at a meeting in 2000 between Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Panamanian students.

But Posada has always had the benefit of influential friends. In 1985, he got help from Cuban-American associates to bribe his way out of a Venezuelan jail. He was then put to work in El Salvador, handling munitions and finances for the secret White House-run supply operation for the Nicaraguan contra rebels.

Last year, while in jail in Panama, another powerful ally intervened. In August 2004, outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso – who lives in Key Biscayne, Florida, and has close ties to the Cuban-American community – pardoned Posada and his co-conspirators on the Panamanian bombing plot. At the time, there was press speculation that the move was a political favor to George W. Bush, who was in a tough battle for Florida’s electoral votes.

More at link: http://consortiumnews.com/2005/051005.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. Maybe Georgie will give him a pardon

just like the one his Daddy gave to Orlando Bosch. Those old CIA guys alway stick together.

[Judi Lynn]

25. This should get really interesting as Bush tries to find a way to protect

him from justice, while trying to look legal, now that so many eyes are watching him!

This monster gave a two hour interview to the Miami Herald, as he is apparently not worried about hiding THAT much. In it he boasts that he's out and around in Miami, even being recognized on the street. Maybe he became to boastful doing this interview and brought too much heat on the protection the _Bushes were providing him!

Cuban "exiles" have boasted before that the FBI doesn't bother them when they go on raids and rampages in Cuba.

Here's the article on the interview, and a few great bits of information from DU'ers on Luis Posada Carriles:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1478505

[flordehinojos]

26. DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT IN MIAMI, IN BUSH TERRITORY, AND UNDER THE VIGILANCE

OF THE BUSHLAND HOMELAND SECURITY, THE WORDS, "POSADA CARRILES IS IN CUSTODY", MEANS THAT THE BUSHCO IS PROTECTING POSADA CARRILES AND GIVING HIM SAFE PASSAGE TO WHEREVER HIS HEART DESIRES?

THIS IS SIMPLY JUST ANOTHER CASE OF BUSHCO PROTECTING THE REAL TERRORISTS...AND I WISH I KNEW HOW TO VISUALLY EMPHASIZE, FOR THIS POST, THE WORD, "PROTECTING" ... but i don't know how i can get the post to make big black bold letters.

[Judi Lynn]

30. Bushes have been connected to these Cuban CIA terrorists from the first

These guys have been available for Watergate, (the break-in into Elsberg's psychiatrist's office?) iterrogating prisoners in VietNam, and Operation Condor, including the killing of the Chilean diplomat, Orlando Letelier for his leftist views, etc., etc.

_{Elder Bush} was around throughout all of these things. He pardoned Orlando Bosch, a true scum terrorist, who, with Posada killed students and teenagers, children on the Cubana airliner.

They pulled off the very first airliner bombing in flight IN HISTORY.
What a dirty, cowardly accomplishment.

flordehinojos, click the HTML lookup table, in "Message options" right above the subject line of the message when you want to BOLD words.

[flordehinojos]

33. [b] Thank You, Judi Lynn [b]

:)

And yes, the bushes are as much scum as posada carriles, bosch and all the rest

[ECH1969]

31. Will they turn him over

I doubt it.

[Barrett808]

32. So what about Orlando Bosch? n/t

[IndianaGreen]

41. The terrorist Bosch was pardoned by Poppy Bush

Criminals protect one another, and the Bush crime family is no different.

[chlamor]

34. Now go to Queens and arrest Immanuel Constant n/t

[Itsthetruth]

35. Unanimous Support In Venezuela For Extradition Of Posada

Unanimous Support in Venezuela to Extradition of Posada Carriles
By Miguel Lozano

Caracas, May 14 (Prensa Latina) Practically unanimous is Venezuela’s demand to deliver terrorist of Cuban origin Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for blowing a Cuban civil plane in 1976, killing 73 people.

In an unusual coincidence in the hectic national political life, every political trend has declared itself in favor of the extradition request presented Friday to the United States for the wanted criminal. In comments to Prensa Latina, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said he hoped "the US authorities, which have insisted so much in the fight against terrorism, validate their own words, proceed to arrest the terrorist and comply with their commitments."

The same feeling was expressed in a recent statement by the National Assembly (One chamber Parliament) approved by all the parties represented in this organization. The statement backs up a decision by the Supreme Court of Justice demanding the extradition of Posada to be tried in Venezuela, where he organized the sabotage to the Cuban plane along with Bosch and Venezuelan terrorists Freddy Lugo and Hernan Ricardo.

Venezuelan morning papers show in their front page how the request for preventive arrest and extradition by the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington was made official, according to the head of the diplomatic mission Bernardo Alvarez. In comments to local television, Alvarez said he expected Washington to speed up the paperwork for the preventive detention, to later extradite the terrorist of Cuban origin.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B09AA3978-9F07-44C0-AFBA-08012A921F2D%7D&language=EN

[Rose Siding]

36. Here's the link: Alleged anti-Castro terrorist Posada arrested

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Federal agents arrested notorious Cuban exile leader Luis Posada Carriles near Miami Tuesday afternoon. He is reported to have been planning to leave the country.

Posada was legendary among south Florida's Cuban exile community for his plots to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

He is wanted in Venezuela to face charges that he blew up a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people.
...
Posada, a onetime CIA operative, had been in hiding since he was smuggled into the United States via Mexico.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/17/posada.arrest/

[AP]

Notice that US media won't tell you that Posada was last in custody in VZ

where he escaped from prison, and where he was going to be tried for being a terrorist.

They want to pretend that they won't extradite him to VZ because VZ will turn him over to Cuba. To perpetuate this charade, the US media is going to leave out details, like that Posada is a VZ citizen who committed crimes in VZ and that VZ wants to try him in VZ.

[AP]

37. Notice that US media won't tell you that Posada was last in custody in VZ

where he escaped from prison, and where he was going to be tried for being a terrorist.

They want to pretend that they won't extradite him to VZ because VZ will turn him over to Cuba. To perpetuate this charade, the US media is going to leave out details, like that Posada is a VZ citizen who committed crimes in VZ and that VZ wants to try him in VZ.

[Mika]

38. Where are the Posada defending Castro hating DUers?

Wow! A Cuba related thread without the red baiting anti Castro terra defenders?

This has to be a first (so far).


:bounce:


www.stopbolton.org

[alfredo]

39. According to Nightline, only two countries want him,

Cuba and Venezuela. I bet Bush holds him, refusing to extradite him to either country. Bush had no choice but arrest him. Now he can't do shit with him.

[Mika]

40. Photos of Havana anti terra rally

[Judi Lynn]

42. Wanted exile seized in Miami

May 18, 2005, 1:38AM

Wanted exile seized in Miami
Havana claims asylum-seeker is a terrorist linked to a 1976 jet bombing that killed 73
By ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press

• The United States: The Homeland Security Department did not say what it planned to do with Posada. Generally, the U.S. government does not return people to countries acting on Cuba's behalf, the department said. It has 48 hours to determine his immigration status.

Associated Press

MIAMI - Immigration officials arrested Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban exile suspected in a deadly airplane bombing and other attacks, on Tuesday, weeks after he slipped into the United States and shortly after he withdrew an application for political asylum.

The Bush administration, which had been mostly silent about Posada's presence and until Tuesday denied knowing if he was even in the country, faced growing pressure from Cuba and its ally Venezuela to extradite him. The bombed Cuban jetliner had departed from Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.

Critics here had questioned why the United States would harbor a suspected terrorist, even one whom many Cuban exiles hailed as a freedom fighter against Fidel Castro.
(snip)

One of Posada's associates said he was taken into custody at a private home in Miami-Dade County. His lawyer, Eduardo Soto, said he was taken to Homestead Air Force Base and flown by military helicopter to an undisclosed location.

Immigration officials had scheduled an interview with Posada in Miami on Tuesday regarding his asylum request. But he did not show up, Soto said. Hours later, Posada held a news conference to deny involvement in the Cuban airliner bombing, which killed 73 people off the coast of Barbados in 1976, and to say he may withdraw his asylum application to avoid causing trouble for the United States.

"I have lived clandestinely for more than 30 years," Posada said. "If my request for political asylum should become a problem for the United States government, I am willing to reconsider my request."
(snip/...)

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3186830



Young and old Posada.
Bite us, Luis.



This is the beast who pardoned him 5 days
before leaving office as Panama's President.
Mireya Moscoso is sitting between Condoleeza
Rice and Laura _Bush.

[Judi Lynn]

43. Will U.S. harbor terrorist?

Will U.S. harbor terrorist?

By Peter Kornbluh and Julia E. Sweig
Originally published May 15, 2005

WASHINGTON - The illegal entry into the United States of legendary anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles and his request for asylum present the Bush administration with a dilemma: The president can bow to the pressure from Miami's hard-line Cuban-American community to grant Mr. Posada a haven, or he can detain him as an "excludable alien" for his life-long involvement in acts of international terrorism.

Mr. Bush's decision will be viewed as a test of the principles he has championed - that no nation should harbor terrorists and that every nation must do its part in bringing those who commit acts of terrorism to justice.

Mr. Posada is one of the world's most unremitting purveyors of violence. Widely considered the godfather of Cuban exile efforts to overthrow Fidel Castro, the 77-year-old self-proclaimed freedom fighter has practiced the art of sabotage, bombing and attempted assassination since the early 1960s, when he was trained in demolition and guerrilla warfare by the Central Intelligence Agency.
(snip)

"I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world," Mr. Bush stated last fall during the election campaign. Allowing Mr. Posada to stay would tell the world that, in fact, there is a place where those who use such tools are accepted: Here in the United States.
(snip/)

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.terrorism15may15,1,4724647.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines&ctrack=2&cset=true

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

LUIS POSADA CARRILES
THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD
CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism; Connection to U.S.

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 153



Odd items from the records:

Document 7: FBI, July 13, 1965, "Cuban Representation in Exile (RECE)"

In 1985, Posada escaped from prison in Venezuela where he had been incarcerated after the plane bombing and remains a fugitive from justice. He went directly to El Salvador, where he worked, using the alias "Ramon Medina," on the illegal contra resupply program being run by Lt. Col. Oliver North in the Reagan National Security Council. In 1998 he was interviewed by Ann Louise Bardach for the New York Times at a secret location in Aruba, and claimed responsibility for a string of hotel bombings in Havana during which eleven people were injured and one Italian businessman was killed. Most recently he was imprisoned in Panama for trying to assassinate Fidel Castro in December 2000 with 33 pounds of C-4 explosives. In September 2004, he and three co-conspirators were suddenly pardoned, and Posada went to Honduras. Venezuela is now preparing to submit an official extradition request to the United States for his return.



A FBI cable reports on intelligence obtained from "MM T-1" (a code reference to the CIA) on a number of RECE terrorist operations, including the bombing of the Soviet library in Mexico City. The document contains information on payments from Jorge Mas Canosa to Luis Posada for an operation to bomb ships in the port of Veracruz, as well as a description of Posada and a statement he gave to the FBI in June of 1964.

Document 8: FBI, May 17, 1965, "Roberto Alejos Arzu; Luis Sierra Lopez, Neutrality Matters, Internal Security-Guatemala"

The FBI links Posada to a major plot to overthrow the government of Guatemala. U.S. Customs agents force Posada and other co-conspirators to turn over a cache of weapons that are listed in this document. The weapons include napalm, 80 pounds of C-4 explosives, and 28 pounds of C-3 explosives.
(snip/...)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/

[Mika]

44. Luis Posada & Oliver North sitting in a tree, k i s s i n g..

Google search on Posada and Oliver North

:puke: