Posada to remain in federal detention for now

[struggle4progress]

BY MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Miami Herald

... ``An immigration judge granted Mr. Posada deferral of removal to Cuba and Venezuela based on the Convention Against Torture. However, that doesn't impede ICE from removing Mr. Posada to a third country. As is required by regulation, ICE is in the process of conducting a routine custody review.''

ICE is expected to make a decision by March, within 180 days -- as required by law -- from the date a federal judge ruled that Posada could not be deported to either Cuba or Venezuela, where he is wanted for alleged terrorist crimes. On Sept. 27, immigration Judge William Abbott ruled that Posada could face torture in those two countries. The judge left open the possibility that Posada could be sent to another country.

Posada remains in detention in El Paso.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/13699605.htm

[bluestateguy]

1. He's a really good catcher

I don't like the Yankees, but I do respect his skills as a catcher.

[WindRavenX]

2. lol, I *always* do that

I read the headline and am like, "Posada? A terrorist? Are the Sox fans writing this?" :evilgrin:

[mitchtv]

3. He'd loooooove a Bolivian jail

send him to the Hague

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. I wonder if Posada's judge knows

that Posada's buddy who smuggled him into Florida got busted a few months ago and is now sitting in jail without bond? Turns out Alverez and a bunch of the Bay of Pigs alumni were planning Return to Bay of Pigs II.




Published Saturday, December 10, 2005
Judge Denies Cubans Bail in Weapons Case
Officials say exiles' cache of machine guns, grenades and more was illegal.

By CURT ANDERSON
The Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A federal judge rejected a second attempt by two Cuban exiles to win release on bail before their trial on illegal weapons and other charges, ruling Friday that they were too dangerous to be free because of the deadly military nature of the weapons.

The machine guns, grenades, grenade launcher, detonation devices and thousands of rounds of ammunition seized in the case amounted to "everything you need to carry out a bloodbath," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Hummel.

"These guns are offensive weapons under the law," Hummel said.

U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn sided with prosecutors, upholding another judge's ruling denying bail for Santiago Alvarez, 64, and 63-year-old Osvaldo Mitat. They are charged in a seven-count grand jury indictment with illegal possession of machine guns and other weapons -some with serial numbers erased -- that allegedly were stored at an apartment complex near Fort Lauderdale owned by Alvarez.

"These weapons have no utilitarian purpose other than to harm others," Cohn said.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051210/NEWS/512100368/1004

[HuffleClaw]

5. "...Posada could face torture in those two countries."

so only AMERICAN brand torture is permitted?

[Judi Lynn]

6. So wierd they're talking about torture from Cuba. I'm not sure, but

it would seem a man who co-authored a mass murder, the bombing of a Cubana airliner, killing all 73 people on board, including the entire Cuban Fencing Team and medical students from Guyana would be executed, no two ways about it.

Venezuela wants him back because he escaped from prison there, and admitted to the New York Times writers that the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami bribed guards and sneaked him out.

He's a lucky man the countries whose citizens he has murdered didn't catch him first.

[Ben Ceremos]

7. He's lucky

for now. "We" will get him, rest assured. Venceremos!