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Posada Carriles, the airline bomber that killed 73 walks free
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 Friday April 20, 2007 10:12 by Terence
US Harbours terrorist despite President saying that makes him as guilty.
“I vowed that if you harbor a terrorist you’re equally as guilty as the terrorist. That’s a doctrine. In order for this country to be credible, when the President says something, he must mean it.” President George W. Bush, April 10, 2007, American Legion Post 177, Fairfax, Virginia.
“Part of our doctrine is if you harbor a terrorist, you’re equally as guilty as the terrorists.” President Bush, April 5, 2007, Fort Irwin, California.
So much for the Bush doctrine. It is reported today that the mass murderer, Posada Carriles, who murdered 73 people by organizing the planting of a bomb on a civilian airliner in 1976 has walked free from a US New Mexician jail.
The Cuban passenger plane, which had originated in Venezuela, blew up over the Caribbean waters of Barbados. At that time, it constituted the most deadly act of terrorism ever carried out in the Western Hemisphere.
Among the dead were all 24 members of the Cuban fencing team, many of them teenagers, who had just won the 1975 Central American-Caribbean championship. Also killed were several Guyanese medical students, aged 18 and 19.
This has been a long running saga, but the US never had any intention of bringing him to justice. He was already in Venezuela but escaped while awaiting trial and despite appeals that he be deported there to face justice, the US has continued to protect him.
In fact in the early 1970s, Posada Carriles himself was employed as a senior official in the Venezuelan secret police, the DISP, when torture was endemic under the dictatorship that was in power then and supported by the US, and he has been charged with both the torture and extra-judicial murder of leftist activists in that country.
Some extracts from the report:
He is now free on bail, awaiting a May 11 trial on charges of lying to immigration agents. The only penalty for such an offense is deportation.
No country in the world, however, will agree to take Posada Carriles off Washington’s hands, save two. The first is his native Cuba, whose citizens constitute the majority of his victims, and the second is Venezuela, where he became a naturalized citizen and secret policeman, and from which he plotted the 1976 airline bombing.
Venezuela formally demanded that the US extradite the terrorist to face trial for this crime in June of 2005 under existing treaties between the two countries. Since then, the Bush administration has simply ignored the extradition request.
As he awaited the completion of his trial and sentencing in the airline bombing case, Posada Carriles escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985, and had remained under US protection ever since, working with CIA operatives in Central America in the illegal “contra” war against Nicaragua.
Venezuela clearly has every legal right to demand that he be sent back to confront the verdict that he evaded more than 20 years ago. However, a US immigration judge, acting on behalf of the Bush administration, ruled that he could not be sent to Venezuela because he might face torture there.
Now isn't that ironic? -coming from an Administration where toruture has been well documented both in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib prison and many other secret rendition sites throughout the world run by them. Nor is there any evidence for their spurious allegations.
Responding to the freeing of Posada Carriles, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez compared the fugitive to Osama bin Laden and described him as “the father of all terrorists on the American continent.”
“We demand that they extradite this terrorist and murderer to Venezuela rather than keep protecting him,” Chávez said. He continued by condemning Washington’s cynicism: “They say they fight terrorism, (but) there it is! Their mask keeps falling off.”
The Cuban government also reiterated its call for the extradition request to be honored. “For two years they have protected Posada Carriles with judicial subterfuges to evade their duty to extradite him to Venezuela or try him for terrorism,” Ricardo Alarcón, president of the Cuban parliament, said Thursday.
The Bush administration refuses to extradite Posada Carriles, because he was Washington’s own terrorist, trained and paid by the CIA to carry out acts of terrorism. To place him on trial would threaten the exposure of a long history of international aggression and criminality organized by US imperialism, ranging from terrorist attacks on Cuba and assassination attempts against its President Fidel Castro to the airline bombing—which took place when Bush’s father was the director of the CIA—to the dirty wars in Central America in the 1980s.
So the Bush administration harbors the terrorist and, under the “Bush doctrine” is “equally as guilty” as this confessed and convicted mass murderer.
Cited as a reason for invading both Afghanistan and Iraq, and now again invoked in preparation for yet another war against Iran, this supposed principle—held up to the mirror of Posada Carriles—is revealed as nothing more than cynical pretext for pursuing the aims and interests of America’s ruling elite by means of military force and massive state terror.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Free on bond is hardly walking away a Free Man, I mean where would he flee to from the usa?
anyplace else will extradite(rendition anyone?) once the May 11th hearing comes to pass if he lied and is deported he's fucked in Venezuela,
Chavez will parade his entrails for the press, after of course he's found guilty in the Venezuelan Peoples court(Roland Frieseler anyone?) seriously does anyone actually believe he could get an impartial hearing in venezuela when chavez and castro are joined at the hip? Believe that and you'll believe the SWP actually works for the Irish People.....
If he has never been tried for this crime , even in absentia, how does Indymedia make the judgement that he is guilty? Think about that for a second.
we try to hold ourselves to high standards, but calling a man who hasnt had his day in a court of laws a Mass Murderer is only speculation at best and Libelous at worst until a judgement has been determined. Quite frankly this doesnt make the writ for standards of publishing here. Reverse it to say the same for Fidel Castro and there would be howls about the lack of fair play.
According to the article he is on "Bail" for illegally entering the us, this begs the question asked already, where would he run to if found guilty of the charges in the us? As stated only 2 countries would take him, Cuba & Venezuela, though the Hague might be a good trial arena. I also doubt he could recieve a Fair & Just trial in either of those two countries.
This article makes a great leap of Faith about this man without much evidence to support it
Washington D.C. May 10, 2005 - Declassified CIA and FBI records posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University identify Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who is apparently in Florida seeking asylum, as a former CIA agent and as one of the "engineer[s]" of the 1976 terrorist bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 that killed 73 passengers.
The documents include a November 1976 FBI report on the bombing cited in yesterday's New York Times article "Case of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist," CIA trace reports covering the Agency's recruitment of Posada in the 1960s, as well as the FBI intelligence reporting on the downing of the plane. The Archive also posted a second FBI report, dated one day after the bombing, in which a confidential source "all but admitted that Posada and [Orlando] Bosch had engineered the bombing of the airline." In addition, the posting includes several documents relating to Bosch and his suspected role in the downing of the jetliner on October 6, 1976.