Venezuelan Prez Lambastes U.S. (over Posada immigration charges)

[Mika]

Venezuelan Prez Lambastes U.S.
http://cbs4boston.com/news/topstories_story_139194307.html

CARACAS, Venezuela (CBS) Newly released U.S. government documents citing a confidential informant reveal a Cuban exile talked of attacking a Cuban plane weeks before the 1976 bombing of a passenger jet that killed 73 people.

The information came to light as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lambasted U.S. officials for charging Luis Posada Carriles with a measly immigration-related crime Thursday, saying not extraditing him would amount to sheltering a terrorist.

"The hypocrisy of the United States has been shown once more," Chavez said in a televised speech in the eastern city of Cumana. "Either it sends him to Venezuela, or it will stand before the world as protecting an international terrorist."

"The CIA knew those lords of death were going to put the bomb on the Cuban plane," Chavez said.

One U.S. State Department intelligence brief issued after the attack and made public Wednesday says an informant revealed Posada said weeks before the bombing: "We are going to hit a Cuban airliner."
A declassified CIA document, also made public Wednesday, said the agency had a report from an informant in June 1976 that a group headed by Posada's associate Orlando Bosch planned "to place a bomb on a Cubana Airline flight traveling between Panama and Havana."

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[knowbody0]

1. was posada cia or not?

[Mika]

2. Apparently he was (is)

Google search of Posada +CIA




www.stopbolton.org

[burrowowl]

3. I got pissed at my evening

so-called liberal leaning rag when yesterday headline called Posada: Anti-Castro Militant. He is a @$)(&%^&$@ TERROIST, DAMNIT!

[Judi Lynn]

4. Who would call a mass-murderer a "militant," anyway?

Quite the understatement, isn't it?



Militant?

The Bush Family's Favorite Terrorist
By Jerry Meldon & Robert Parry
April 25, 2005


While the Bush administration holds dozens of suspected Muslim terrorists on secret or flimsy evidence, one of the world’s most notorious terrorists slipped into the United States via Mexico and traveled to Florida without setting off any law enforcement alarms.

Though the terrorist’s presence has been an open secret in Miami, neither President George W. Bush nor Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has ordered a manhunt. The U.S. press corps has been largely silent as well.
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http://www.cubasource.org/publications/chronicles/coc200405us_e.asp

[Judi Lynn]

5. Cuban militant held in El Paso

May 20, 2005, 12:01AM

Cuban militant held in El Paso
Anti-Castro activist charged with illegal entry; attorney to renew asylum request
By TIM WEINER
New York Times
Homeland Security Department officials said Thursday that they had charged Luis Posada Carriles, the violent anti-Castro militant, with illegally entering the United States.
(snip)

U.S. officials have not said whether they want to deport Posada. He acknowledged entering the United States secretly through Mexico in mid-March.
(snip)

"This is a case that the Department of Homeland Security now will handle," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. "The issues here concern understanding the record of Mr. Posada and then making judgments about what that means about his request" for asylum.
(snip)

Torture allegations
Knight Ridder News Service reported that a former leftist guerrilla in Venezuela claims that Posada ordered that he be tortured and ordered the murder of another guerrilla when Posada was a senior intelligence officer in Venezuela in the 1970s.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/3190434
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[Judi Lynn]

6. Kin of Havana bombing victim hopes for Posada trial in Venezuela

Kin of Havana bombing victim hopes for Posada trial in Venezuela

The Associated Press
Posted May 19 2005, 6:17 PM EDT


HAVANA -- Giustino di Celmo's eyes fill with tears when he looks toward the corner of the hotel bar where his son died eight years ago in a bombing communist Cuba has blamed on an old foe, militant Luis Posada Carriles.

Posada, held in the United States on immigration charges, initially acknowledged involvement in the string of 1997 bombings of Cuba tourist locales that killed 32-year-old Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo. He later recanted.

Di Celmo hopes the 77-year-old Cuban born Posada will be extradited to Venezuela to be retried in a deadly airline bombing almost three decades ago.

Venezuela, a strong ally of Cuba, has requested Posada's extradition. Although the South American nation shares an extradition treaty with the United States, it remained unclear if the U.S. government would abide by the request.
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The explosion occurred as the young Di Celmo, who was living and working in Cuba as a travel agent and businessman, was waiting in the bar for his father to come down from his hotel room.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-0519posadatrial,0,5592695.story?coll=sfla-news-cuba



son,father

[burrowowl]

8. I sure as hell

hope so!

[struggle4progress]

7. kick