Allegations against Posada grow

Posted on Mon, May. 23, 2005

Allegations against Posada grow

By OSCAR CORRAL AND ALFONSO CHARDY

Knight Ridder Newspapers


MIAMI — A former U.S. prosecutor says he has information that Luis Posada Carriles was at a meeting in the Dominican Republic where Cuban exile militants discussed plans to bomb a Cuban plane.

The disclosure by former assistant U.S. attorney E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. could be used by Department of Homeland Security prosecutors to persuade an immigration judge to deny Posada asylum in the United States. Posada has been accused by Venezuelan authorities of blowing up a Cuban jetliner in 1976, killing 73 people.

It’s one of many allegations that federal government prosecutors are gathering to advance their attempt to see Posada, who sneaked into the United States in March, expelled from the country.

Posada, now in U.S. custody, awaits an immigration hearing next month, where he is expected to renew his quest for asylum. Posada says Cuban agents are persecuting him for the purpose of abducting or killing him.
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/11714424.htm



Young Luis Posada Carriles, older Posada

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A made in USA terrorist: Luis Posada Carriles


By Celerino "Cele" Castillo III
Online Journal Guest Writer


May 19, 2005—For over a century, our government has made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that we have done to other people in Third World countries, especially in Latin America.

With the creation of the School of the Americas, a breeding ground for assassins, and the death squads, we became the greatest human rights violators in the world.

We have become the most hated country in the world, not because we practice democracy or value our freedom. We are hated because our government denies these basic principles to these people. The hate has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism, and, as they say, "the chickens have come home to roost with our own American-made terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles.

When I was posted in Central America, as a DEA agent, I saw Luis Posada and Felix Rodriguez, another American-made terrorist, at Illopango airport base in El Salvador. Joining them was a CIA asset, Venezuelan advisor Victor Rivera. They had become part of what was known as a CIA apparatus that did not have to answer to anyone. They were involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping, and the training of the death squads.
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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/051905Castillo/051905castillo.html

And Why Isn't Our Media Asking That Question?

Probably. Remember that Bush I pardoned Orlando Bosch. Not for his role in this but for firing a bazooka at a Polish freighter in Miami. Bosch was involved in the Cuban airliner downing too.

From the article:

After the Bonao meeting, at least three significant attacks occurred: the attempted kidnapping of the Cuban consul in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula; the Cuban jetliner bombing; and the Letelier assassination.

Many of those accused of conspiring in those attacks have ties to Bonao or Posada. They now live in South Florida, and they also may be called to testify for or against Posada, according to U.S. government officials and Posada’s lawyer, Eduardo Soto.

Bosch and Novo dispute the assertion that attacks were plotted at Bonao, and they say that the purpose of the meeting was to create an umbrella organization of anti-Castro groups known as CORU, a Spanish-language acronym for the United Revolutionary Command.

A once secret FBI document from 1977, also posted recently by the National Security Archive, described CORU as “composed of five anti-Castro terrorist organizations.”
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Bosch was released from an Atlanta prison in 1972, but he violated parole and left the country less than two years later. In November 1974, Venezuelan police linked Bosch to two bombings, arrested him and offered to return him to the United States. In February 1976, Costan Rican police arrested Bosch for plotting to assassinate Henry Kissinger on a visit to that country. Strangely, the U.S. declined both offers to have Bosch, who had violated his parole, extradited.<19>

After he was let go by the Costa Rican police, Bosch organized a meeting near Bonao, the Dominican Republic, in the summer of 1976, which was attended by the most dangerous anti-Castro militants, including Luis Posada, Jose Dionisio Suarez and Ignacio and Guillermo Novo. There, an umbrella group of exile terrorists was formed, the Commando of United Revolutionary organizations (CORU).<20> The Justice Department determined that CORU orchestrated at least sixteen bombings, kidnappings, assassinations and attempted assassinations in the United States, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Spain, including the 1976 Cubana airliner bombing<21>.

Bosch later said of the Bonao meeting, “Everything was planned there. I told them that we couldn’t just keep bombing an embassy here and a police station there. We had to start taking more serious actions.”<22>

In 1977 the House Select Committee on Assassinations questioned Bosch (who was by then in a Venezuelan jail for the Cubana airliner bombing) because of, as the committee put it, “the intensity and violence of his activities, which have always been widely publicized.”<23>

Bosch told the committee that he and Frank Sturgis, whom the committee identified as a “well- known anti-Castro soldier of fortune,” had cooperated in at least 11 air strikes against Cuba, for which American mercenary pilots were paid at least $2000 per flight.<24>
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http://ciponline.org/cuba/cubaandterrorism/keepingthingsinperspective.htm

“For almost 40 years, we have isolated Cuba on the assumption that the tiny island is a center of terrorism in the hemisphere, and year after year we gain new evidence that it is the U.S. that has terrorized Cuba and not the other way around.”—Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1998<1>

in all of this?

Believe me, sensible people had good laugh listening to Bush in Russia recently because the US role in South and Central America as well as the Caribbean was to ensure that there were no democracies. All that mattered was promoting American special interests and hundreds of thousands of people died for that agenda.

He was involved in plenty of terra ops.

Now he's our National Intel Director. (((gulp))) :( :puke:







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