U.S. Government Frees Anti-Castro Terrorist in Hypocritical Double Standard

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

Louis Posada Carriles is wanted in both Cuba and Venezuela for terrorist activities, including the 1976 bombing of a civilian airliner that killed 73 people and a series of deadly Havana tourist hotel bombings in 1997. He was put on a list banning him from getting a visa to enter America, but he managed to come in illegally. Busted on immigration charges in 2005, a federal court has just freed Posada on bond pending his trial (despite the fact that he escaped from prison in 1985).

The judge's decision to give him bond is not the real problem - the Justice Department actually tried to prevent it and called him "an unrepentant criminal and admitted mastermind of terrorist plots." The big story here is why, in light of the "Global War on Terror" rhetoric, the Bush Administration is neither sending a known terrorist to Guantanamo nor at least granting extradition requests from Cuba or Venezuela to stand trial.

Ironically, the government's justification for Posada's asylum is that he might be tortured if sent back.

Cuba calls Posada "the bin Laden of the Americas," but Posada is not Muslim, not trying to claim any Middle Eastern oil, and anti-Castro (as a CIA operative he participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and plotted a failed assassination attempt in 2000). Apparently that makes the killing and terrorizing of innocent people OK...

More here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/229

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1. IOKIYAR.

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2. US government Frees Terrorist in Obedience to Federal Judge

In hypocritical single standard, US government refuses to send a combattant who has fought against Cuba and Venezuela but not the United States, to Guantanamo Bay for detention, nor sends a man wanted for trial in the United States to other countries so that those countries may try the man first.

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3. kick

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