More proof that Bush is a terrorist, that he supports
terrorism, and coddles other terrorists - not that we
needed more proof, but the truth must be told at least
as often as the terrorists' lies....
Posada Carriles: terrorist who killed 73 in plane bombing walks free
By Bill Van Auken
20 April 2007
“I vowed that if you harbor a terrorist you’re equally as guilty as the
terrorist. That’s a doctrine. In order for this country to be credible,
when the President says something, he must mean it.” President George W.
Bush, April 10, 2007, American Legion Post 177, Fairfax, Virginia.
“Part of our doctrine is if you harbor a terrorist, you’re equally as
guilty as the terrorists.” President Bush, April 5, 2007, Fort Irwin,
California.
A cell door in New Mexico swung open Thursday and Luis Posada Carriles—a
man wanted for an act of terrorist mass murder—went free, making his way
to Miami escorted by US Marshals and his lawyer.
So much for the Bush doctrine. Washington is now openly harboring a
terrorist who murdered 73 people by organizing the planting of a bomb on
a civilian airliner in 1976. The Cuban passenger plane, which had
originated in Venezuela, blew up over the Caribbean waters of Barbados.
At that time, it constituted the most deadly act of terrorism ever
carried out in the Western Hemisphere.
Among the dead were all 24 members of the Cuban fencing team, many of
them teenagers, who had just won the 1975 Central American-Caribbean
championship. Also killed were several Guyanese medical students, aged
18 and 19.
It is worth remembering these young victims as shock and sorrow is felt
throughout the United States over the slaughter of a similar number of
students of roughly the same age at Virginia Tech.
The release of Posada Carriles followed a ruling by the US Court of
Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday rejecting a government prosecutor’s
motion that the confessed terrorist be kept in prison.
He has been in custody since May of 2005. The court refused to hold him,
however, because he is not charged with the crimes of mass murder,
terrorism and assassination, but rather with run-of-the-mill immigration
offenses: entering the country illegally and lying to US immigration
officials.
He is now free on bail, awaiting a May 11 trial on charges of lying to
immigration agents. The only penalty for such an offense is deportation.
No country in the world, however, will agree to take Posada Carriles off
Washington’s hands, save two. The first is his native Cuba, whose
citizens constitute the majority of his victims, and the second is
Venezuela, where he became a naturalized citizen and secret policeman,
and from which he plotted the 1976 airline bombing.
Venezuela formally demanded that the US extradite the terrorist to face
trial for this crime in June of 2005 under existing treaties between the
two countries. Since then, the Bush administration has simply ignored
the extradition request.
As he awaited the completion of his trial and sentencing in the airline
bombing case, Posada Carriles escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985,
and had remained under US protection ever since, working with CIA
operatives in Central America in the illegal “contra” war against Nicaragua.
Venezuela clearly has every legal right to demand that he be sent back
to confront the verdict that he evaded more than 20 years ago. However,
a US immigration judge, acting on behalf of the Bush administration,
ruled that he could not be sent to Venezuela because he might face
torture there.
This claim is both spurious and outrageous. There is no evidence of
systemic torture in Venezuela. If this rule were applied consistently,
no undocumented immigrant caught by border agents could be sent back to
Mexico, Brazil or a number of other countries in Latin America where
abuse in prisons is equally if not more common.
Moreover, coming from the US government, which has both tortured and
organized the “extraordinary rendition” of its detainees to countries
specifically chosen because they will be tortured there, the invocation
of international treaties against torture to shield Posada Carriles is
breathtaking in its hypocrisy.
Finally, it is worth noting that Posada Carriles himself was employed as
a senior official in the Venezuelan secret police, the DISP, in the
early 1970s, when torture was endemic, and has been charged with both
the torture and extra-judicial murder of leftist activists in that country.
Responding to the freeing of Posada Carriles, Venezuelan President Hugo
Chávez compared the fugitive to Osama bin Laden and described him as
“the father of all terrorists on the American continent.”
“We demand that they extradite this terrorist and murderer to Venezuela
rather than keep protecting him,” Chávez said. He continued by
condemning Washington’s cynicism: “They say they fight terrorism, (but)
there it is! Their mask keeps falling off.”
The Cuban government also reiterated its call for the extradition
request to be honored. “For two years they have protected Posada
Carriles with judicial subterfuges to evade their duty to extradite him
to Venezuela or try him for terrorism,” Ricardo Alarcón, president of
the Cuban parliament, said Thursday.
The Bush administration refuses to extradite Posada Carriles, because he
was Washington’s own terrorist, trained and paid by the CIA to carry out
acts of terrorism. To place him on trial would threaten the exposure of
a long history of international aggression and criminality organized by
US imperialism, ranging from terrorist attacks on Cuba and assassination
attempts against its President Fidel Castro to the airline bombing—which
took place when Bush’s father was the director of the CIA—to the dirty
wars in Central America in the 1980s.
So the Bush administration harbors the terrorist and, under the “Bush
doctrine” is “equally as guilty” as this confessed and convicted mass
murderer.
Cited as a reason for invading both Afghanistan and Iraq, and now again
invoked in preparation for yet another war against Iran, this supposed
principle—held up to the mirror of Posada Carriles—is revealed as
nothing more than cynical pretext for pursuing the aims and interests of
America’s ruling elite by means of military force and massive state terror.
See also:
“Outlaw regimes” and the harboring of terrorists: the case of Posada
Carriles
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Here's what happens to steel framed buildings exposed
to raging infernos for hours on end.
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr69c.html
On 9-11-01, WTC7, a 47 story steel framed building, which
had only small, random fires, dropped in perfect symmetry
at near free fall speed as in a perfectly executed controlled
demolition.
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html http://wtc7.net/articles/FEMA/WTC_ch5.htm
Ever wonder who benefits from the 300 MILLION
U.S. taxpayer dollars spent each DAY in Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0223-08.htm http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=21
"They are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And
there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to
take... men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons
who are capable of any atrocity... they respect no laws of
warfare or morality."
-bu$h describing his own illegal invasion of Iraq.
http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm http://www.commondreams.org/ http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/ http://thirdworldtraveler.com/ http://counterpunch.org/ http://responsiblewealth.org/
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...
=> Bush Grants Freedom To Murderous Terrorist <= 
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