The terrorist is knocking on the door

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Luis Posada Carriles, the man accused of knocking down a crowded airplane, exploding a hotel and trying to kill the Cuban President asks the US for exile. What now, Uncle Sam?

Rita Freire

He has been trained by the CIA to hunt down Fidel Castro. He wanted to kill the Cuban President and would support anyone else that agreed with him. For that, he is considered a hero by the Cuban dissidents that live in Miami. But this 77 years old man is also a notorious terrorist, responsible for attacks that have taken away the life of many innocent people. He now wants to join his old admirers. Luis Posada Carriles has illegally entered the US and is now asking for political exile.

The incident took place last Tuesday when the request was registered by an immigration service in Miami. It was too late to avoid the disturbance. Posada was already inside the country as an illegal immigrant. Hosting him means, to the US justice, to expose the country’s tolerance towards terrorism– as long as it is committed against the “enemies”. Sending him to another country also means doing a good deed to a terrorist. Sending him back to Cuba means to forsake a friend in, who has been trained by the American Secret Service, and abandon him in his old age. That is not a problem, since the concerned person is a terrorist. But delivering him to Cuba would put a great part of Miami against the Bush government. <snip>

As a good supporter of the CIA, Posada has also dedicated his life to persecute left wing groups that could get in the way of the plans the US had to the neighboring countries. He has been to Venezuela hunting guerrilla fighters. There, he ended up arrested for the explosion of a plane flying from Venezuela to Cuba, which carried Cuban athletes returning home after a competition. He escaped prison in strange circumstances, which may have involved bribes and money coming for his Miami supporters. He ended up in Nicaragua, where he persecuted Sandinistas, and later in Guatemala, where he hunted men presumed to be Cuban agents. <snip>

The terrorist’s most recent arrest took place in Panama, at the 10th Spanish-American Summit on November 2000. President Fidel Castro, who attended the conference, revealed he was the target of an assassination plan. The Panamanian police was warned and found a group headed by Posada, who was then 72 years old. They were carrying 8 kilos of explosives and a map indicating the location of the event. <snip>

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[The Doctor.]

1. Write your newspapers!

It'd be neat to have this guy expose everything.