Cuban exile whisked away after his arrest

[acmavm]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11671735.htm

Posted on Wed, May. 18, 2005

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BY OSCAR CORRAL AND ALFONSO CHARDY

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Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, accused of terrorism, briefly came out of hiding Tuesday before he was arrested by federal immigration authorities and whisked away in a Homeland Security helicopter.

Posada, who has been linked to the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner and to a 1997 series of bombings at tourist hotels in Havana, was arrested in Miami-Dade on the same day Cuban President Fidel Castro mounted a massive march in Havana to accuse U.S. leaders of hypocrisy for sheltering the accused bomber.

And his arrest came just hours after Posada, who has been hiding in the Miami area since he entered the United States illegally in late March, held an invitation-only news conference under tight security at a warehouse near Hialeah.

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The Department of Homeland Security immediately released a statement saying it would not deport Posada to Cuba or its ally, Venezuela, which is requesting his extradition. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency ''does not generally remove people to Cuba, nor does ICE generally remove people to countries believed to be acting on Cuba's behalf,'' the statement said.
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Makes a big joke on this administrations stand on 'terrorists' I think.

[flordehinojos]

1. Whisked away by the Department of Homeland Security?

Psada Carriles was whisked away by the Department of Homeland Security in Florida just like the Saudis were whisked away out of the United States in the short hours of 9/11/01

and then there was old JEB on the television this afternoon defending the Homeland Security whisking away of Posada Carriles, saying that people in Cuba are put in prison for the simple act of worshipping their God, or for the act of dissention.

Can you imagine the JEB CHUTZPAH?!!! isn't his brother putting people in prison here for the act of dissent, and wasn't Michael Schiavo held in some sort of moral prison by the right wingers and by Terry Schiavo's parents, simply because he wanted to carry out her will for the end stage of her life?

Que Chutzpah!

[B3Nut]

2. Whisked away. Oy.

That's. creepy.

Mind you, I'm fuzzy on what this gent is supposed to have done, but there's something disquieting about the phraseology used...

Todd in Beerbratistan

[flordehinojos]

3. he is supposed to have bombed a CUBANA DE AVIACION plane in 1972

killing 72, or 78 people. He is said to be involved in the bombing of several hotels in Havana in l998 which killed at least one Italian tourist. It is said that he worked for POPPY's CIA hands. And it is clear that POPPY AND HIS SON are using Homeland Security to protect him, despite their claim that they have ARRESTED HIM...