Castro accuses Bush of protecting accused bomber (Reuters)

Source: Reuters

Castro accuses Bush of protecting accused bomber

Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:09pm ET137

HAVANA (Reuters) - Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday of protecting a Cuban exile wanted by Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban jetliner 30 years ago.

In his third newspaper column in two weeks, Castro said a decision by a U.S. judge that militant exile and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles should be freed on bail could only have resulted from instructions by the White House.

Posada Carriles, 79, is due to go on trial May 11 on immigration fraud charges. A judge in El Paso, Texas, decided last week he should be freed on bail until his trial. The Cuban-born Venezuelan national has remained behind bars at the request of federal prosecutors.

Cuba has criticized Washington for having a double standard in its war on terror by harboring Posada Carriles because of his past connections with U.S. intelligence services. "It was President Bush himself that has ignored the criminal and terrorist character of the accused. He was protected by charging him only with breaking immigration laws," Castro wrote in the column issued by Cuban officials by e-mail.

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Sounds like Fidel is beginning to feel better.

A terrorist by any other name is still a ... TERRORIST!

He's a psychopath who could never find meaningful work in the real world. Spent his whole life doing and plotting harm to others.

Any patriot would NEVER have worked at murder all over the entire damned hemisphere, even involving himself in vicious national crimes against humanity as nasty as Iran-Contra, Operation Condor.

"Militant?" How about common violent dirty criminal? Naturally, the Republicans would have a soft spot in their hearts for him. They ARE the chosen party of the Cuban "exile" "Watergate Plumbers."

secrets so they can't take the chance of him being extradited to Cuba or Venezuela.

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