Pardoned Cuban exile faces death, if captured

[Mika]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/9576502.htm

Honduran authorities said Friday they continue to believe Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles is no longer in the country, but that, if he's captured, they would consider Cuba's extradition request.

There, the explosives expert would face a firing squad.

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Posada -- who is wanted by Cuba on numerous terrorism and assassination charges -- was among four exiles pardoned last month by Panama's former President Mireya Moscoso. They had been imprisoned four years ago on convictions tied to an assassination plot against Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Three of the exiles, Gaspar Jiménez, Pedro Remón and Guillermo Novo -- all of whom are U.S. citizens -- returned to their homes in Miami. Posada, 76, who is not a U.S. citizen, is believed to have fled to Honduras where he went into hiding. Authorities in that country said they have information indicating Posada fled to the Bahamas or another Caribbean country but could not be absolutely certain.

Branded by Castro as ''the worst terrorist in the hemisphere,'' Posada is wanted in connection with the 1976 midair bombing of a Cuban jetliner in which 73 people were killed. The former CIA operative also is accused of orchestrating a dozen terror bombings of Havana tourist spots in 1997, and numerous plots to assassinate Castro.

{edit: FYI most of the 73 on board the bombed Cuban jetliner were children.}


Keeping fingers crossed for this murderer's capture.

[JanMichael]

1. You can probably find him sipping tea with Orlando Bosch on some...

...Bush/NeoCon/Fascist/<insert generally accepted term for scumbag> owned banana planation.

They usually roost together, yes?

[Judi Lynn]

2. It would be SO COOL if they grabbed him and sent him back to Cuba

to face the music.

However, remember that he has had an extensive career with the CIA throughout Latin America, has lived through payments from the CANF in Miami, and god only knows if he's been getting paid without our knowledge or consent, of course, by our taxes, just as he was in his good old days!

He was involved with Oliver North in the drug business, was involved in so much dirty business it would make peoples' heads spin. He was shot in the jaw at some point by someone who didn't appreciate his murderous behavior. It really altered his appearance.

He is considered the hemisphere's "top terrorist."

An Associated Press story said Honduran newspapers had reported that Posada was spotted Sunday eating in a San Pedro Sula hotel with Rafael Nodarse, a Cuban-American-Honduran businessman who owns the Honduran Channel 6 television station.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/9540704.htm

Three of the men, Pedro Remón, Guillermo Novo and Gaspar Jiménez were flown to Miami on a private plane Thursday morning, shortly after being released. They were greeted by family and well-wishers.

A second plane flew Posada Carriles, who is not a U.S. citizen, to an undisclosed location. There are unconfirmed reports that the plane made a stop in San Pedro Sula, Honduras and that immigration officials there are searching for Posada Carriles.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/27/world/main639051.shtml

[Mika]

3. Maybe w* can grant him an immigration waiver, like 41 did for Bosch

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/oct1999/corr-o26.shtml

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http://www.webguild.com/SENTINEL/bush_pardon.htm

Orlando Bosch is the perpetrator of a 1976 bombing of a Cubana airplane carrying seventy-three civilians who were all killed. This was the world's first terrorist action involving the bombing of a civilian airliner. Bosch was recruited, trained, and supported by the CIA. He was then pardoned by the previous Bush administration, and to this day walks freely through the streets of Miami.

Bosch, had been serving a prison sentence but was freed as the result of a campaign launched by Jeb Bush and his right-wing Cuban supporters in Florida. The terrorist activities of Orlando Bosch are fully documented in the book Deadly Secrets by Warren Hinkle and William Turner, who in turn drew their information from a Senate investigation led by Senator Kerry into the activities of the CIA. Evidence showed that the bomb was placed by Cuban-American mercenaries, in the pay of the US Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. The two terrorists who admitted that they placed the bomb on the Cubana flight—Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch—are currently free, receiving refuge in the United States.

According to the New York Time of August 17, 1989, Cuban right-wing congressperson Ros-Lehtinen met with former President Bush to negotiate Bosch's release. The meeting was arranged by her campaign manager, Jeb Bush, who had earlier met with Cuban hunger strikers also demanding the release. Bosch was pardoned on July 18, 1990 and the New York Times was the lonely voice denouncing Bush's pardon on an editorial published July 20, 1990.

Bosch was a cohort of Posada Carriles, a Cuban pediatrician who became a world renowned terrorist for the CIA. Carriles has taken claim for the recent wave of hotel bombings in Havana, Cuba. Both men were trained together at Fort Benning, Georgia. Bosch was the founder of the "Command of the United Revolutionary Organizations" formed to cooperate with the DINA Chilean secret police and other Latin American repressive organisms in the murder of leftists throughout the region, including the assassination of the Chilean ambassador, Letelier, in Washington, DC.

More......
http://www.webguild.com/SENTINEL/bush_pardon.htm

[4morewars]

6. CLOSE THE SOA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Both men were trained together at Fort Benning, Georgia." home of the infamous school of the Americas !!!

-snip-
Over its 56 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins.
-snip-

http://www.soaw.org/new/type.php?type=8

[Vogon_Glory]

4. I've Come To Oppose The Death Penalty, But

I've come to oppose the death penalty, but I wouldn't mind if Posada was extradited to Cuba and made to serve a life sentence.

[Mika]

5. I oppose it too. But in this case..

.. I'm willing to make an exception.

Posada and Bosch boasted that the murder of innocent children is acceptable "collateral damage" in their terror war agin' Castro.


If there ever were a case to be made for execution, Posada and Bosch are it.

[gula]

7. Why let them off so easy.

I would send them to some place like Abu Ghraib. for life.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Posada Carriles connected to Oliver North and George H. W. Bush

in this link:

"August 18, 1985:"

Luis Posada Carriles escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he was being
held for the terrorist murder of 73 persons. Using forged documents falsely
identifying him as a Venezuelan named "Ramon Medina," Posada flew to
Central America. Within a few weeks, Felix Rodriguez assigned him to
supervise the Bush office's Contra resupply operations being run from the
El Salvador air base. Posada personally ran the safe-houses used for the
CIA flight crews.

Rodriguez explained the arrangement in his book: "Because of my
relationship with Gen. Bustillo, I was able to pave
the way for North to use the
facilities at Ilopango .... I found someone to
manage the Salvadorian-based resupply operation on a day-to-day basis. They
knew that person as Ramon Medina. I knew him by his real name: Luis Posada
Carriles.... I first met Posada in 1963 at Fort Benning, Georgia,
where we went through basic training together .. as U.S. Army second
lieutenants...."

Rodriguez neglects to explain that agent Posada Carriles was originally
recruited and trained by the same CIA murder operation, "JM/WAVE" in Miami,
as was Rodriguez himself.

Felix continues: "In the sixties, he reportedly went to work for DISIP, the
Venezuelan intelligence service, and rose to considerable power within its
ranks. It was rumored that he held one of the top half-dozen jobs in the
organization....
(snip/...)

http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_7.html

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Details on the careers of some Bay of Pigs veterans have emerged as a consequence of both the October 1986 downing of American flyer Eugene Hasenfus in Nicaragua and the "Contra-gate" investigations. Hasenfus and Nicaraguan authorities claimed that two of the link men in the contra resupply operation in El Salvador were Cuban exiles, already well known for their service with the CIA; these allegations were subsequently investigated and confirmed by the news media and congressional aides. Among these link men were the apparent head of the operation at San Salvador's military airport, Illopango, Felix Martinez (under the pseudonym Max Gomez), and another Bay of Pigs veteran, Luis Posada Carriles (under the name Ramon Medina).32 Congressional aides were particularly outraged at the discovery-just as American counterterrorism proposals were taken to Congress-that one of the resupply officers had previously been detained in Venezuela as an international terrorist. Posada Carriles had escaped from a Venezuelan jail on 17 August 1985, after nearly ten years' imprisonment for the bombing of a Cuban civil airliner.

The 1976 bombing killed all seventy-three people aboard, including most of Cuba's 1976 Pan American Games team-a slaughter as terrible as that of the Munich Olympics (this was to date the only terrorist bombing of its kind of a Latin American airliner). Subsequent inquiries confirmed that Posada Carriles had served in the Bay of Pigs invasion as an explosives expert and was later commissioned in the U.S. Army. The State Department reported to Congress that

(Luis Clemente) Posada-Carriles was appointed as a 2Lt in the US Army in March 1963 under the Cuban exile voluIlteer program. He served in the US Army until September 1966. Records of the Department of Army reflect that an extensive investigative file exists on Posada- Carnles subsequent to his entry on active duty. The investigation was predicated on information . . . pertaining to his alleged involvement in Cuban exile activities in Florida and elsewhere in the Americas which reportedly included possible violations of US federal statutes.... Posada-Carriles' Army investigative file was requested (by name) and was furnished to the House Select Committee on Assassination in 1978.33
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http://www.statecraft.org/chapter8.html