August 31, 2005
Immigration Hearing Set for Accused Anti-Castro Terrorist
At issue in the hearing is whether the one-time CIA operative should be granted asylum in the United States despite requests by the Venezuelan government that he be deported to that country.
Venezuelan officials have alleged that Posada, an ex-Venezuelan security official, was in Caracas when he plotted the deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that crashed off the coast of Barbados, killing 73 people.
CIA documents also show the spy agency trained Posada in 1961 to participate in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Immigration Judge William Abbott last month asked lawyers in the case to prepare briefs on whether the invasion was a terrorist act.
The judge said he would also consider whether Posada had ever provided material support for acts of terror as part of the case.
Posada's lawyers have said he did not participate in the failed attempt to topple Fidel Castro's communist government.
Posada's detention and the ongoing court proceedings have sparked international outrage, with governments from Cuba to South America demanding his deportation so he can be tried in the bombing.
~Chicken came home to roost? And most likely for some Miami area medical expertise.
What's the odds on Posada dying in a Venezuelan jail awaiting trial as a terrorist?
The Shrub is gonna allow Immigration to label this life-long anti-Castro "freedom fighter" a terrorist; hand him over to Venezuela(!) for a BIG trial and spit in big-brother Jeb's Cuban-constituents' faces? Enquiring minds want to know!
Asylum-seeking accused terrorist Luis Posada
[photo via google]
~He doesn't look like a mass-murderer. Where's his beard?
Posted by Cieciel at August 31, 2005 05:06 AM