U.S. focuses on hotel bombings after Posada is freed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald/Associated Press

Posted on Thu, May. 10, 2007
U.S. focuses on hotel bombings after Posada is freed
BY ANITA SNOW
Associated Press

HAVANA -- (AP) -- The plastic explosives were smuggled in bottles of White Rain and Prell shampoo and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Casio digital clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful bombs.

Some of them never detonated and are now on public display in Havana as part of what Cuba calls a wealth of evidence against Fidel Castro's archenemy, Luis Posada Carriles, in a string of 1997 bombings targeting Havana hotels.

While Cuba can't try Posada, who walks free in the United States after being cleared of immigration fraud charges this week by a Texas judge, a federal court in New Jersey just might.

A secret grand jury is meeting in Newark to decide whether to indict Posada on charges of financing a terrorist operation. FBI agents visited Havana last year in connection with the probe, following up on a 1998 trip to the island, according to two U.S. law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.



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[wakeme2008]

1. Another Loyal Bushie judge will just free him

:grr:

[anotherdrew]

2. well, it's a damn good sign that at least PARTS of our government are trying to do the right thing

that's nice to see for a change. I just hope they're not dragging their heels.

[otherlander]

3. "We will make no distinction

between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." -George W. Bush

Well...




I'm sure that we will greet ourselves as liberators.

[1932]

4. So, who does Venezuela and Cuba get to bomb now that we're letting a terrorist

walk free in the US?

Don't tell me Afghanistan!