Court blocks Posada release

Source: Miami Herald

Court blocks Posada release
A New Orleans court backed U.S. prosecutors' request
to keep Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles
behind bars hours after Venezuelan intelligence agents
raided the home of a Posada attorney.

Confronted with his immediate release, the U.S. government Thursday obtained an emergency order to stop Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles from moving to Miami on a bond before his immigration fraud trial in Texas.

A three-judge panel of the appellate court in New Orleans granted the Justice Department's last-minute request after Posada's family posted the balance of a $350,000 bond with the federal court in El Paso. No hearing date on the government's appeal of his bond has been set.

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'Posada Carriles' history demonstrates that there is a very real risk that he will flee if released,'' wrote Justice Department attorney John F. DePue.

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The government has called Chaffardet an ''accomplice'' of Posada, saying it was grossly improper that his testimony during a hearing in Texas helped convince a U.S. judge that Posada could be tortured if returned to Venezuela. Chaffardet, a Venezuelan, has served as Posada's attorney in the South American country. He once was a police colleague of Posada, who held a prominent role in Venezuela's secret police in the 1970s.

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of the U.S. gummint, since he worked for the C.I.A. in the past, and had a big part to play in Iran-Contra.

Hearing them bring up small details like his work as a Venezuelan secret police official during the 1970's who ordered torture to prisoners must really have him worried.

So who's he going to spill the beans to, now? He's got nowhere to turn, since he's officially the prisoner of a right-wing pResident, something he never anticipated in his entire life.

I can only imagine what this has done to Posada's right-wing reactionary supporters in Miami and other places. They must be bouncing off the walls, as they are the same people who named a day after his co-bomber/mass murderer/assassin partner, Orlando Bosch, as well as a street in Miami, and one of the Cuban "exile" Congress people built her entire Congressional campaign around getting him pardoned by _Bush the Elder.

Miami Cuban "exile" talk radio hosts even organized their listeners to build defense funds for Posada and his co-horts in their assassination attempt charges in Panama. Won't they be hopping mad?

This could be a RW hostage situation.

.. he is technically under full "protection". He deserves a firing squad or gallows noose, but is sitting in air conditioned comfort with the full support and love of the most radical elements of Miami's exile community - along with a steady supply of "care packages" of Miamicuban food and drink. Not to mention the numerous fund raising drives on many of Miami's virulent anti Castro Cubano radio stations.