Cuban Militant, Posada Carriles, Released on U.S. Bond

Posada is wanted in Cuba and in Venezuela, where he's accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane that killed 73 people. A judge has ruled that he can't be deported to those countries because he might be tortured. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez compares Posada to Osama bin Laden and says the U-S is showing its hypocrisy by not turning him over.

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Cuban exiles in Miami were pleased that Posada, a former CIA operative -- and a hero to many -- was returning to Miami, at least temporarily, while he awaits trial.

''That's doing justice. He is not a danger to this community, and people here know he had nothing to do with the blowing up of the airplane, said Jose ``Pepin'' Pujol, a longtime friend of Posada's who is also under investigation in a case involving Posada.''

Santiago Alvarez, a wealthy developer and major Posada benefactor who ran afoul of the law after helping Posada emerge from hiding in Miami in 2005, said through his attorney that he is glad his friend has been released.

''Mr. Alvarez is thrilled that the justice system is working fairly for Luis Posada, and he wishes him the best,'' said Alvarez's Miami attorney, Ben Kuehne.

Alvarez is serving a three-year sentence at the Miami federal prison. Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat were accused of conspiring to stash machine guns, firearms, a silencer and a grenade launcher in a Broward apartment complex that belonged to Alvarez.

On Thursday, Posada traveled from El Paso to Miami with his lawyer, Art Hernandez, accompanied by U.S. marshals

''He has made bond, and we expect him to appear for trial on May 11,'' said Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman. Posada will be fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet for 24-hour monitoring.

In an exclusive interview with Carlos Santana of Radio Mambí 710-AM, Hernandez said as he arrived at the Miami airport that Posada ``has been processed criminally and by immigration. So now he's going home, and he will be there until his trial date.''

Posada, 79, was wearing a beige and white suit with a maroon shirt and he appeared to be tired, Radio Mambí reported. He will be reunited with his once-estranged wife and two grown children Janet and Jorge.

Posada is facing immigration fraud charges. An immigration judge ruled that he couldn't be deported to those countries because he might be tortured, and no other country has agreed to take him.

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Washington, Apr 19 (Prensa Latina) International terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was released by US authorities on Thursday, despite evidence of his involvement in criminal acts.

According to one of the terrorist's lawyers, Felipe Millan, Posada left the New Mexico jail where he had been held and headed for Miami after a 250,000-dollar bail was paid.

On Tuesday, the New Orleans Appelate Circuit Federal Court had ruled for the criminal to be paroled, as Washington refuses to try him for his bloody crimes against Cuba.

This court ruling overturned a request from the Department of Justice to maintain Posada behind bars, just under migratory charges and not for his terrorist activities against the Caribbean Island.

The possibility to prevent the release of the Bin Laden of the Americas, as he is also known, was in the hands of the US Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Posada Carriles was one of those responsible for the blowing up of a Cuban civil plane in 1976, killing all 73 people on board.

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Havana, Apr 19 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban province Granma, over 497 miles east of Havana, will censure in its capital Bayamo the 250,000 dollar bail out in the US of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

National TV newscast said near 50,000 people will repel the release of the confessed 1976 bomber of a Cuban civilian plane with 73 people aboard and of Havana hotels in 1977 killing a young Italian tourist, among other crimes.

Venezuela also demands the extradition of the escaped convict, a demand to which the White House has paid a deaf ear.

The Federal Court of Appeals of New Orleans exonerated the criminal despite the Justice Department petition to keep him behind bars with charges that overlook his bulky criminal dossier.

Local Communist Party First Secretary Lazaro Exposito convened the rally for Thursday at 6:00 pm to condemn the new brutal aggression to the Cuban people.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement released the following statement regarding the release of Luis Posada-Carriles from federal custody today pending his trial:

On April 6, the District Court judge presiding over Luis Posada-Carriles' criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division, issued her decision granting Posada's appeal and ordering his release pending trial, subject to certain conditions. Today, Posada met the conditions of the court order and will travel to Miami accompanied by U.S. Marshals. Also today, ICE served Posada with an immigration Notification of Order of Supervision and an Order of Supervision.

This immigration Notice and Order listed conditions that Posada must abide by, including compliance with the court order; telephonic reporting every two weeks; continuous good faith efforts to obtain a travel document from any government in the world; and immediate in-person reporting to ICE upon the conclusion of the criminal proceedings against him. Additionally, the supervision order requires Posada to surrender to ICE for removal in the event that he obtains travel documents necessary to relocate outside the U.S.

ICE can modify the immigration supervision order based upon changed circumstances. Further, any failure by Posada to comply with the supervision order may subject him to fines, more restrictive release conditions, detention, or criminal prosecution. The supervision order does not affect Posada's removal order. Likewise, it does not constitute an admission to the United States and it does not accord him any legal status in the United States.

Leticia Zamarripa

Public Affairs Officer

Department Of Homeland Security

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FIGHT FOR JUSTICE... CAMPAIGN

LUIS POSADA CARRILES MUST BE TRIED FOR HIS CRIMES

While in the name of the fight against terrorism, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and others - arbitrarily detained - are tortured in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the United States government protects the most notorious terrorist in this hemisphere, attempting to deceive public opinion through interminable pseudolegal manuevers and refusing to try him for his real crimes.

Luis Posada Carriles was accused and brought to trial in Venezuela for the 1976 attack against a commercial aircraft in which 73 persons died. After escaping from Venezuelan prisons in 1982 - leaving his trial unconcluded - he served the CIA as part of what was known as the "Irancontras" operation and also in the implementation of the genocidal Plan Cóndor. In 1997 he prepared a series of terrorist acts against hotels in Havana - in one of which the young Italian tourist, Fabio Di Celmo, lost his life -, and in the year 2000, the projected attempt against President Fidel Castro´s life at the University of Panama.

In March, 2005, Posada Carriles entered the United States illegally. Only after reiterated public denunciations that revealed the presence of this criminal in U.S. terriitory, the goverment of George W. Bush proceeded to detain and charge him for immigration crimes and false witness, without the slightest reference to terrorism.

Through their handling of Posada Carriles, the U.S. authorities, pressured by groups of Cuban extremists in South Florida, have made evident the double morality of their war against terrorism in the name of which they torture, kidnap and bomb. At the same time, as has been denounced by numerous international forums and United Nations´agencies, five Cuban antiterrorist activists remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States, subjected together with their families to cruel and discriminatory treatment.

All honest people of the world who raise their voices against war and terrorism, have before them irrefutable proof of the lack of ethics upon which the current administration in Washington bases its actions. We, the undersigned, demand that the government of the United States, in compliance with international obligations, charge Luis Posada Carriles for all of his crimes or attend the request for his extradition to Venezuela, which until now has received absolutely no response.


To sign the campaign:

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STATEMENT BY THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF CUBA


Cuba condemns the shameless decision to release terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and singles out the US Government as the only one responsible for this ruthless and infamous act seeking to buy the silence of the terrorist on his crimes at the service of the CIA, particularly when Bush Sr. was its Director-General.

With this decision, the US Government has ignored the clamor that has arisen all around the world, even within the United States, against the impunity and the political manipulation entailed by this action.

This decision is an outrage to the Cuban people and to the nations that lost 73 of its sons and daughters in the heinous 1976 attack that blew up a civilian Cubana de Aviación aircraft off the coast of Barbados.

This decision is an outrage to the people of the United States and an emphatic denial to the alleged “war on terror” declared by the Government of President George W. Bush.

For the Government of the United States it would have sufficed to certify the terrorist nature of Luis Posada Carriles in order to prevent his release, and in conformity with Section 412 of the Patriot Act of the United States, it could have acknowledged that “his release will threaten the national security of the United States or the safety of the community or any person.”

The Government of the United States would have also been able to enforce those regulations allowing the Immigration and Naturalization Service to retain a non-admissible alien in US territory that is subject to deportation. For that, it would have sufficed if the US authorities had concluded that Posada Carriles is a risk to the community or that releasing him would entail risk of flight.

Why did the Government of the United States allow the terrorist to enter US soil freely despite the warnings expressed by President Fidel Castro?

Why did the US Government protect him during the months that he stayed in its territory illegally?

Why, if it had all the elements to that end, did it restrict itself, last 11 January, to charge him with misdemeanor and other strictly migration-oriented issues and not with what he is really all about: murder?

Why is he released when judge Kathleen Cardone herself, in her ruling of 6 April that ordered the release of the terrorist, recognized that he is accused “…of being involved in or associated with some of the most infamous events of the twentieth century (…) Some of these acts include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Iran-Contra scandal, the mid-air explosion of Cubana de Aviación flight 455, the 1997 bombs planted in tourist resorts in Havana and, according to some conspiracy theoreticians, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy”?

Why is the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Homeland Security Department of the United States not using now the mechanisms that it has available to hold the terrorist in prison, with the unquestionable argument, already used by the US Attorney-General’s Office on a date as recent as 19 March, that if released there is risk of flight?

Why has the Government of the United States disregarded the request for extradition submitted, with all the rigueur requirements, by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela?

How come is the most notorious terrorist on this hemisphere now released while five Cuban youths are still ruthlessly imprisoned for the sole crime of fighting terrorism?

For Cuba, there is a clear answer. The terrorist’s release has been concocted by the White House as compensation for Posada Carriles not to reveal what he knows, not to talk about the countless secrets he keeps on his protracted period as an agent of the US special services, when he was involved in Operation Condor, in the dirty war against Cuba, against Nicaragua and against other peoples of the world.

Full responsibility for the release of the terrorist and for the consequences stemming from it would be directly attributed to the US Government and, particularly, to the President of that country.

Even now, after his release, the US Government has all the information and the legal mechanisms to apprehend him again. It just takes the political will to wage a serious fight on terror and recall that, according to President Bush, “…if you provide haven for a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you will be as guilty as the terrorists.”



Havana, 19 April 2007

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FIGHT FOR JUSTICE... CAMPAIGN

LUIS POSADA CARRILES MUST BE TRIED FOR HIS CRIMES

While in the name of the fight against terrorism, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and others - arbitrarily detained - are tortured in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the United States government protects the most notorious terrorist in this hemisphere, attempting to deceive public opinion through interminable pseudolegal manuevers and refusing to try him for his real crimes.

Luis Posada Carriles was accused and brought to trial in Venezuela for the 1976 attack against a commercial aircraft in which 73 persons died. After escaping from Venezuelan prisons in 1982 - leaving his trial unconcluded - he served the CIA as part of what was known as the "Irancontras" operation and also in the implementation of the genocidal Plan Cóndor. In 1997 he prepared a series of terrorist acts against hotels in Havana - in one of which the young Italian tourist, Fabio Di Celmo, lost his life -, and in the year 2000, the projected attempt against President Fidel Castro´s life at the University of Panama.

In March, 2005, Posada Carriles entered the United States illegally. Only after reiterated public denunciations that revealed the presence of this criminal in U.S. terriitory, the goverment of George W. Bush proceeded to detain and charge him for immigration crimes and false witness, without the slightest reference to terrorism.

Through their handling of Posada Carriles, the U.S. authorities, pressured by groups of Cuban extremists in South Florida, have made evident the double morality of their war against terrorism in the name of which they torture, kidnap and bomb. At the same time, as has been denounced by numerous international forums and United Nations´agencies, five Cuban antiterrorist activists remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States, subjected together with their families to cruel and discriminatory treatment.

All honest people of the world who raise their voices against war and terrorism, have before them irrefutable proof of the lack of ethics upon which the current administration in Washington bases its actions. We, the undersigned, demand that the government of the United States, in compliance with international obligations, charge Luis Posada Carriles for all of his crimes or attend the request for his extradition to Venezuela, which until now has received absolutely no response.


To sign the campaign:

edhcuba [at] cubarte.cult.cu

http://www.porlajusticia.cu

http://www.porlajusticia.net

http://www.porlajusticia.org

http://www.porlajusticia.info

http://www.porlajusticia.com

http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/index.html

http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/ultraje/art245.html

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