CHAVEZ: "President Bush, you are a protector of terrorists. As such, you are a terrorist..."

Chavez takes case to U.N.

WORLD BRIEFINGS
By Ian James
ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 24, 2007

CARACAS, Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela will protest to the United Nations after the release of a Cuban militant on bond, accusing Washington of letting a terrorist go free.

Venezuela had asked the United States to extradite former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles, 79, on charges that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane in which 73 persons died. Mr. Chavez also said Mr. Posada has been plotting to assassinate him for years and accused President Bush of complicity in failing to bring Mr. Posada to justice.

"President Bush, you are a protector of terrorists. As such, you are a terrorist," Mr. Chavez said during his weekly TV and radio program "Hello, President."

"The Venezuelan government will take this case to the United Nations, because it cannot be," Mr. Chavez said. "We've been asking for his extradition for more than two years. We sent them all the evidence."

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