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US court drops all charges against Posada Carriles—terrorist killer set free
With the decision by US District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone to dismiss all government charges against Luis Posada Carriles, the judicial farce staged by the Bush administration to prevent the long-time CIA agent from standing trial for terrorism and mass murder reached its logical outcome. An individual responsible for the worst single terrorist attack in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century—the 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner that killed 73 people—has been set free.
The ruling, which exposes the fraudulence and hypocrisy of the Bush administration’s vaunted “global war on terrorism,” provoked scant coverage, and no apparent outrage, from the US mass media.
The legal logic of the decision rendered by Judge Cardone—a 2003 appointee of the Bush White House—may well be sound. The government apparently botched its case against Posada, perhaps intentionally. But then the case itself—that the terrorist had lied to immigration authorities when he entered the US in 2005—was a ruse. Its purpose was not to obtain a conviction of Posada, but rather to preclude his being publicly tried and convicted for murderous criminal activity that spanned more than four decades.
In her 38-page order tossing out the indictment, Judge Cardone charged that the government had used “fraud, deceit and trickery” to build its immigration indictment against Posada. She said that the authorities had used a citizenship interview, conducted after Posada had been picked up on immigration charges, to carry out a criminal investigation aimed at trapping the terrorist in a lie about his entry into the US.
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http://wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/posa-m10.shtml
The legal logic of the decision rendered by Judge Cardone—a 2003 appointee of the Bush White House—may well be sound. The government apparently botched its case against Posada, perhaps intentionally. But then the case itself—that the terrorist had lied to immigration authorities when he entered the US in 2005—was a ruse. Its purpose was not to obtain a conviction of Posada, but rather to preclude his being publicly tried and convicted for murderous criminal activity that spanned more than four decades.
In her 38-page order tossing out the indictment, Judge Cardone charged that the government had used “fraud, deceit and trickery” to build its immigration indictment against Posada. She said that the authorities had used a citizenship interview, conducted after Posada had been picked up on immigration charges, to carry out a criminal investigation aimed at trapping the terrorist in a lie about his entry into the US.
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http://wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/posa-m10.shtml
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