US seeks to bar anti-Castro extremist to speak of CIA ties

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

US seeks to bar anti-Castro extremist to speak of CIA ties

Mon Apr 30, 12:48 PM ET

MIAMI (AFP) - The US government is seeking to bar former CIA agent
Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for the
downing of an airliner, from talking about his links with the agency
when he goes on trial in May.

In a nine-page motion filed with a federal tribunal in El Paso, Texas,
state prosecutors claimed Posada Carriles's relationship with the
Central Intelligence Agency ended more than 30 years ago and that
as testimony or questioning about those ties were not relevant to
his trial on immigration charges.

A fierce opponent of Cuba's communist President Fidel Castro,
Posada Carriles was convicted in Venezuela in 1976 of masterminding
the downing of the Cuban jet off Barbados, but escaped from prison
in 1985.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070430/ts_alt_afp/ustrialattackscuba_070430164810

[IndianaGreen]

1. Sure, let's hush up the fact the CIA was involved in terrorist bombing of civilian jetliner

The CIA on the same moral plane as the 9-11 hijackers!

[Kagemusha]

2. Involvement in a bombing has nothing to do with immigration charges either.

Though it's rather chicken to be only after him on such charges in the first place.

[ngant17]

6. There is much more hard evidence to convict Posada

than any kind of hear-say drivel that the **** Administration has used to implicate Bin Laden to the 911 attacks. Even the FBI has admitted that there is no enough evidence against Bin Laden.

OTOH Posada was linked physically to the scene of the crime in Barbados. His 2 partners in crime have given testimony against him. He bragged about the 1976 terrorist attack to a reporter years later. He was trained in the use of explosives by CIA. Traces of the explosives were found to be US-military grade C4. He has previously engaged in terrorist attacks. He was convicted for that crime and escaped prison in Venezuela. He is an international criminal cum terrorist on the run and being protected by ****.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Posada, the bush family's very own personal terrorist

"A thorough investigation of Posada also could prove embarrassing for the Bush family, since the Cubana Airline bombing was part of a wave of right-wing terrorism that occurred in 1976 under the nose of then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush. If Posada ever told his full story, he might shed unwelcome light on how much the senior George Bush knew about the terrorist attacks in 1976 and the Iran-Contra operation a decade later, where Posada also showed up.

One of Posada’s co-conspirators in the Panamanian bomb plot, Guillermo Novo, was implicated, too, in the right-wing terrorism that flared up during George H.W. Bush’s year in charge of the CIA.

Novo was convicted of conspiracy in the bombing deaths of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt, who were killed on Sept. 21, 1976, as they drove down Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C.

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At the time of the Letelier-Moffitt car bombing, Bush’s CIA had evidence in its files that implicated Pinochet’s secret police in the plot to kill Letelier, an outspoken critic of the military regime. But Bush’s spy agency withheld the incriminating information from the FBI and misdirected the investigation away from the guilty parties."

More at Ted Kahl's blog on democrats.com http://www.democrats.com/node/4377

[Peace Patriot]

7. Another interesting fact about Letelier's death...Robert Novak (yup, same one)

got his hands on Letelier's address book, somehow, and outed all his contacts after his car was blown up, putting all their lives in danger.

Sound familiar?

[Straight Shooter]

9. The douchebag of liberty has a long illustrious history of betraying people. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

10. Very glad you posted this. Not a bit of a surprise, considering it was Novakula.

It would tell his deep government connections go back a long way, and makes him far more unpleasant than he already seemed. He's been dirty a very long time.

On edit: I just remembered that although the plot was hatched by the Pinochet regime, the actual crime was carried out by Cuban "exile" hitmen.

Those guys sure get around.

The car which carried Orlando Letelier and his assistant, Ronnie Moffit when they were murdered, and her husband injured:

[peacetalksforall]

4. Hmmm

. May 2007
. Thirty years ago - May 1977
. CIA says Posada Carilles gone from CIA more than 30 years ago.
. October 6, 1976 - Cubana Airlines blown out of the sky
. Hey CIA - more than 30 years ago? Did you mean October 5 or 7, 1976 ?

Another secret. Irrascible aging man, thinks he did the U.S. a favor? Can't understand why Venezuela or Cuba would want to bring justice?

[Mika]

5. Miamicubano hard right: If you hate Posada you must love Castro

Black -- White


:crazy:

And, yes, there is a little of that around here also.

[Peace Patriot]

8. I wouldn't give a plug nickle for Posada Carriles' life, at this point.

I think they freed him (from jail, on the immigration charge), in order to assassinate him. He knows much, much too much.

How many illegal immigrants who falsified papers get to run around free in the US "until their trial"? It may LOOK LIKE a payoff, but I don't think it really is. They've held him all this time, and suddenly he goes free--prior to testimony? The Bush Junta prosecutors made a show of objecting to his release. I think it was a pantomime. People in a position to do so ought to investigate that judge.