Castro Wages Campaign to Demand U.S. Arrest Suspect in Airliner Bombing

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBUFHBET8E.html

HAVANA (AP) - Night after night, Fidel Castro has been on television demanding the United States arrest a Cuban exile sought in an airliner bombing that killed 73 people three decades ago.

He takes his campaign to the streets on Tuesday for a protest march expected to be the biggest since the Elian Gonzalez case roused the nation.

Speaking for up to four hours at a time, Castro thunders with indignation and laughs at the absurd as he reads the news before a live audience of Communist officials - occasionally pausing to flip through a scattering of papers in front of him hunting for a quotation.

The result is remarkably like a televised version of an Internet blog - references to outside news sources tightly wrapped in personal commentary.

Increasingly the focus is on his longtime foe Luis Posada Carriles, who is sought in Venezuela on charges of helping bomb a Cuban airliner in 1976.

[paineinthearse]

1. is Fidel turning into Gene Scott? nt

[IndianaGreen]

2. If Osama bin Laden were a guest of Fidel at the Hotel Nacional in Havana

You can be certain that we would be rightfully demanding bin Laden's immediate extradition to the US to face justice. What the puke Posada did is no different from what Al-Qaeda has done. The American refusal to even consider Venezuela's warrant for Posada's arrest undercuts the American argument that we are against terrorism. Correction: America is against terrorism, except in those cases when the terrorists are acting in our behalf.

:puke:

[JohnyCanuck]

4. After Posada's henchmen left the bomb on the Cubana airliner,

and then got off the plane in Barbados, where do you think they asked the taxi driver to take them? Why to the local US embassy of course. Maybe they were just stopping by to pick up their pay checks.

The Barbadians found that while they were in Bridgetown, in the very short time that they spent at a hotel, they only made phone calls to Caracas. In those days, there were no cell phones, you had to ask an operator who helped you. Then the Barbadian hotel had the receipts, the records of who called whom, at what time, the day and so on. There were phone calls to Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, with two different numbers in Caracas.

That was one thing.

The other thing is that two Barbadians taxis drivers testified - one worked at the airport and had taken these two individuals from the airport, the same day the Cubana airline was sabotaged. He brought these two people to town.

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And at some moment they asked the driver not to go to the hotel but to go to the American Embassy and, at a particular moment, something struck the mind of the driver. He listened when one of the individuals signalled a building, when approaching downtown Bridgetown, and referred to the American Embassy. In Bridgetown, at this moment, there were very few embassies. The US and very few countries had a representation there. We didn't at the time. This was noted by the driver because it is rather strange that somebody who is entering the country should know this, unless he had been there before.

Then they went to the Embassy, according to this driver.

Another taxi driver, from the hotel - after the Embassy, they went to the Holiday Inn - reported that, on two occasions, on the afternoon of that day, they asked him to bring them to the American Embassy.

http://www.counterpunch.org/allard04192005.html

[Darranar]

5. If that happened, we wouldn't just demand it...

We would invade to ensure it.

[MasonJar]

3. Can Bush avoid turning him over, considering his crime was the

bombing of an airliner, which killed 73 people, including several teenage fencers?

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. They already got away with it with Orlando Bosch

who now lives in Miami and was pardoned by Poppy Bush. Why wouldn't they be able to get away with again?

[Octafish]

7. Same Bay of Pigs Crowd stretching from Watergate and Iran-Contra...

to Dallas on 22 November, 1963. Supposedly, they've got the goods on Poppy, so they're being treated "extra nice" until the name of the person holding their diaries, tape recordings and photographs is discovered and they then can have an unfortunate accident of their own.


GEORGE II'S DANGEROUS LIAISONS

Presidential blessing for Miami terrorists

by Jean-Guy Allard
Granma Internacional Digital - May 28, 2002

ON May 20, in Miami, almost one week after confessing that he knew before September 11 that terrorists were going to hijack commercial
planes in U.S. territory, President George W. Bush suddenly abandoned
his rhetoric of the last eight months.

The White House incumbent was in Miami to give a speech full of
violent anti-Cuba rhetoric. He did not once mention the word
"terrorist," and for good reason: he was completely surrounded by
eminent Miami terrorists.

Some of the most faithful sponsors of terrorism aimed against Cuba
over the past four decades, plus various individuals who have
masterminded and carried out attacks and assassinations, were
gathered around Bush.

Without any sense of shame, the capos and their killers continue to
maintain a high profile in public, reaping the benefits of a
purported legitimacy based on the president's infinite gratitude to
those who put him in power, although he wasn't even elected; the
presence of 18 Miami mafia cronies in the White House; and the FBI's
benevolent tolerance of Miami's most extremist groups.

And even in the presence of the U.S. head of state, they didn't see
the need to use the least discretion.



CONTINUED...

http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Covert_Actions/George_II's_Dangerous_Liaisons

Sometimes ya gotta turn to the commies for some truth, especially when it comes to the BFEE. The American Press Corpse should be ashamed, if only they could.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Goodlordalmighty! I knew Bush put a lot of Cuban "exiles" in Washington

but I had no idea it was as high a number as 18!

In case people haven't taken the time to notice the connection between Republican political figures and the Cuban right-wing, violent extremists, it'd be worthwhile starting to do some research.

This is so obnoxious.

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Here's another link for that Allard article:
http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Covert_Actions/George_II's_Dangerous_Liaisons

[Mika]

8. Cuba IS NOT seeking him. They want him extradited to Venezuela..

.. as per the US/Venezuela extradition treaty.

OK?

[Judi Lynn]

10. For them, Posada's a terrorist

For them, Posada's a terrorist
Published May 15, 2005


HAVANA · They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. That maddening thought haunts Giustino Di Celmo and Carlos Cremata, two men bound by the deaths of their loved ones in separate acts of terrorism linked to the controversial anti-Castro exile who is seeking asylum in Florida.

Cremata's father, an air-traffic control worker, was not supposed to be aboard Cubana Airlines flight 455 the day it exploded over Barbados in 1976 killing him and 72 others. Carlos Cremata Sr. had offered to work a friend's shift and never came home. Only his keys and ID card were recovered.

Twenty-one years later, Di Celmo's son, an Italian businessman, happened to be having lunch with friends at Havana's Copacabana hotel when an explosion sent a shard of shrapnel into his neck, making him the only casualty in about a dozen 1997 hotel and restaurant bombings here.

Both men blame Luis Posada Carriles, 77, a longtime suspect in the airliner bombing. He was twice acquitted of that crime in a Venezuelan courtroom, but escaped in 1985 while prosecutors appealed the case. He admitted he plotted the Havana hotel bombings in an interview with The New York Times in 1998, though he later retracted his statements.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-abauza15may15,0,1783589.column?coll=sfla-news-caribbean