Cuba, Venezuela Rap US in Terrorism Case

[Mika]

Source: AP

Cuba and Venezuela criticized the United States on Wednesday for failing to hand over or prosecute an alleged terrorist accused of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976. The United States insisted it is acting legally.

The case of Luis Posada Carriles — a Cuban-born Venezuelan citizen who has been a Venezuelan security officer, a soldier in the U.S. Army and a CIA operative — was raised during a U.N. Security Council meeting on U.N. efforts to combat terrorism.

Cuban Ambassador Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz called the 80-year-old Posada, a militant opponent of Fidel Castro's communist regime, "the most notorious terrorist of the Western hemisphere."

He said there is sufficient evidence linking Posada to "some of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century" including the bombing of the Cubana de Aviacion jet over Barbados that killed 73 people, the Iran-Contra scandal and the bombings of Havana hotels in 1997.

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