US lawyers ask to dismiss Cuban militant's claims

[struggle4progress]

Wed 31 Jan 2007 9:05 PM ET

HOUSTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - ... In a court filing in El Paso, Texas, Justice Department lawyers asked a judge to dismiss Luis Posada Carriles' claim he was being detained illegally and must be released.

The lawyers said Posada, 78, was charged on Jan. 11 with a specific crime -- lying to immigration authorities -- so he was no longer being detained awaiting deportation but was jailed awaiting trial.

Cuba and Venezuela have demanded Posada's extradition to face charges in the airliner bombing, in which 73 people died, but U.S. officials have refused, arguing he might be tortured.

The United States has not been able to find another country willing to accept Posada's deportation, and a judge said in November he either had to be charged with something by Thursday or released ...

http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N31369254

[sce56]

1. DUHH He might be tortured! Yep and we would not want him to spill his CIA secrets !

[ngant17]

2. If Cuba was going to torture him

after extraditing him, they would merely have to hand him over to the Guantanamo base in Cuba and thus into US authorities again. In such case, there would be no point in extradition as far as Cuba would be concerned. And the US doesn't want to mistreat any its favorite rightwing terrorists anyway.