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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 06:50 AM
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FBI's Cuba trip draws rebuke
Source: Miami Herald

South Florida's three Cuban-American members of Congress condemned the Justice Department Thursday for sending Miami FBI agents to Cuba to collect evidence against Luis Posada Carriles in a hotel bombing that killed an Italian in Havana a decade ago.

'By asking a state sponsor of terrorism for `evidence' regarding terrorism, the Bush administration Justice Department demonstrates a shockingly profound ignorance of the nature of terrorism, of its origins and its state sponsors,'' U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and brothers Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart said in a statement.

It marked the first official public expression of anger over a heightening grand jury investigation in Newark, N.J. The former CIA-trained explosives expert was detained by immigration agents in Miami-Dade two years ago.

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This is not the first time South Florida's Cuban-American lawmakers have intervened in a case dealing with the Cuban exile militant. A few years ago when Posada was imprisoned in Panama for his role in an alleged plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, they lobbied the Panamanian government to pardon Posada along with three fellow exile militants. Then-Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned the men in August 2004 and released them.
Posada went into hiding. He resurfaced in Miami soon after sneaking into the United States in March 2005. His illegal entry revived the FBI's probe into the hotel bombings.


Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/95852.html



FYI - U.S. Rep Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's first campaign slogan in Miami was "Free Orlando Bosch".
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 07:01 AM
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1. cubans are good people
everyone else bad....
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 07:18 AM
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2. So does this mean that these three clowns support terrorism?
Or is terrorism good if it's action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro? Even if innocent soccer team members and women and children and non-Cuban males that die, are blown out of the sky?

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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 07:31 AM
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3. It's terrorism only if our side disapproves of the cause.
Stop picking on Luis Posada Carriles! He is a freedom fighter!
:sarcasm:
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gorbal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 09:42 AM
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4. The Nerve!!!
How dare the collect evidence on a man accused of the "Deadliest attack on a civilian airliner in the western hemisphere before 9/11."

After the attacks of Sept. 11, President George W. Bush forcefully argued that it was every country's duty to fight international terrorism. He made the case that sponsoring terrorism or simply looking the other way when it happened were equivalent acts, and the United States would stand for neither. But holes have started appearing in that principle, courtesy of a single Venezuelan terrorist, released this week from a New Mexico prison on bail.

In early 2005, Luis Posada Carriles, a Venezuelan with a long history of violent attacks in Latin America, sneaked into the United States and was soon arrested. Posada had escaped from a Venezuelan prison while awaiting trial in the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed 73 people, including all 24 members of Cuba's youth fencing team and several Guyanese medical students. This was the deadliest attack on a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere in history - until 9/11. .


http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/22/opinion/edherrera.php
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 09:46 AM
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5. And the Miami Crybabies cry on
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 10:22 AM
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6. Occassionally a stragler shows up here, claiming Luis Posada Carriles was never found guilty.
Edited on Fri May-04-07 10:55 AM by Judi Lynn
They all appear to live in hope that none of us have ever done any research on this case and already know that he escaped from jail, after someone from the Cuban American National Foundation bribed the guards in Venezuela.

Here's a look at the situation, as revealed to two reporters from the New York Times, who put it in their story, "A Bomber's Tale," which garnered national attention at publication:
Posada acknowledged that he might still be in jail in Venezuela had not his friends, led by Mas, come to his rescue. In a sworn deposition taken in a civil lawsuit, Ricardo Mas, the estranged brother of Jorge Mas, recounted how he had traveled to Panama to obtain the cash used to pay for the escape.

Ricardo Mas was the comptroller of his brother's company, Church & Tower, from 1972 to 1985. He said that at his brother Jorge's instruction he deposited a check in one of the company's Panamanian accounts and returned with cash.

"He said that he needed me to go down and bring back $50,000, that it would be used to get Luis Posada Carriles out of jail, that Carriles wanted out, that he might start talking," Ricardo Mas testified. "The guy, I guess, was breaking down, they had to get him out of jail."

Posada's version of how money was raised for escape is somewhat different. He said that a bribe for the warden had come from the sale of his house in Venezuela and that the money from Mas had paid for additional expenses.

During a changing of the guard at midnight on Aug. 18, 1985, Posada, dressed in a black jacket with a collar turned up like a priest's, crossed the courtyard of the prison. He carried a Bible, to strengthen the impression that he was a priest, and a satchel containing a small survival kit of food and a lamp.

A farmer saw him and ran to his side seeking solace, he recalled with amusement recently. "'Father, I have a son who is ill. Could you please pray for him?' I said, 'O.K., friend, walk with me and pray,"' and together the two men strolled out of the prison. "It was perfect," Posada said.
(snip)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/071398cuba-commando.html

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Not only is he a bomber/mass murderer, he's also a big mouth braggart who loves the attention he gets from the Miami community when he yammers about his brazen acts against various "enemies" of the right-wing reactionary bloody Batista-loving Cuban "exile" crowd.



The fact that he told the C.A.N.F. that he had to get out, that he might start talking just may have sealed his fate for what happens to him now in the States after arranging for Bush's powerful allies to get him, a mass murderer, out on bail.

Whoever would do him in will simply deny it. Since when has any one of them really had to do any hard time for their acts of deviant, vicious terrorism?

You may want to remember that the Cuban hitmen who did the "hands on" placing of the bomb for Pinochet's government in the car carrying Chilean leftist diplomat, Orlando Letelier, and his American assistant, Ronni Moffit, and her husband, killing the first two, on the streets of Washington, D.C., in broad daylight? One of them, Guillermo Novo Sampol, served only a few years in jail and was pardoned by George W. Bush within a few years of his inauguration:
Two months before Election 2004, three of Posada’s co-conspirators – Guillermo Novo Sampol, Pedro Remon and Gaspar Jimenez – arrived in Miami to a hero’s welcome, flashing victory signs at their supporters. While the terrorists celebrated, U.S. authorities watched the men – also implicated in bombings in New York, New Jersey and Florida – alight on U.S. soil. {Wshington Post, Sept. 3, 2004}
http://cuban-exile.com/doc_001-025/doc0014.html

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Orlando Letelier was the 1st member of Allende's cabinet to be taken under arrest, and tortured. Later he was released and he moved to Washington, D.C. Ronnie Moffit, his American assistant. The bombed car.



Novo was also enabled to continue his lifetime of terrorism, and was one of the bombers who went to Panama in the plot to bomb an auditorium at the University of Panama where Fidel Castro was scheduled to speak. Only the work of the Cuban secret service uncovered the plot and got the plan aborted. The bombers went to jail, and were later pardoned THE DAY BEFORE SHE LEFT PANAMA by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso. She moved directly to Miami, Florida.

Here she is, sitting next to Laura Bush:


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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 10:26 AM
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7. Manny, Moe and Jack
The S. Fla Cuban delegation. If there's a soapbox with a Cuban vote to be found on it, these three are climbing on top of it to catch it.

Yes, don't talk to anyone in Cuba, don't ask for any evidence about anything, because the country's leader is a Communist. Just another plank in their "strong" vote-whoring policy against Castro. :eyes:
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 12:57 PM
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8. The U.S. is a state sponsor of terrorism.
Should the F.B.I. be prohibited from interviewing or investigating in the U.S,?
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 01:17 PM
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9. Documents Link Posada to 1976 Bombing
Documents Link Posada to 1976 Bombing

Friday May 4, 2007 5:31 AM
By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer

MIAMI (AP) - A former employee of an anti-Castro militant accused of plotting the deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner described potential targets that same year that had links to the communist country, according to documents released Thursday.

The employee of Luis Posada Carriles - who is being held on U.S. immigration charges and whose case has led to an international tug of war over who gets custody of him - wrote out a document detailing surveillance of possible targets in Caribbean locations, according to the documents released by the National Security Archive in Washington.

The sites included Cuban embassies, consulates and travel offices, according to the documents released by the National Security Archive in Washington, the documents show.

Four of those targets were later bombed, including the October 1976 downing of the Cubana airliner shortly after takeoff from Barbados. The bombing killed 73 people. Other targets included a British West Indian Airways office in Barbados and the Guyanese Embassy in Trinidad.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6606943,00.html
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-07-07 01:05 PM
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10. US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties
US government moves to gag terrorist on CIA ties
by Bill Van Auken
Global Research, May 6, 2007

With his trial on immigration charges set for May 11, the US government has filed a motion in federal court seeking to bar the international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles from testifying on his role as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Venezuela has demanded that Posada Carriles be extradited to face charges there related to his masterminding of a 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian passenger jet that killed 73 people. He evaded punishment for the crime—at the time the worst single act of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere—by escaping a Venezuelan prison in 1985.

Violating international and bilateral treaties, Washington has rebuffed Venezuela’s request, charging Posada Carriles instead with minor violations of US immigration law for entering the US without a visa and lying to immigration officials. Last month, the terrorist, who had been in federal custody since May 2005, was set free on bail and returned to Miami.

The release has provoked international protests and exposed the hypocrisy of the so-called “global war on terrorism” proclaimed by a government that has sponsored and continues to harbor and protect a wanted terrorist.

More:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=VAN20070506&articleId=5575
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