A Terror Suspect With Connections

[kliljedahl]

An accused mass-murdering terrorist has sneaked into the United States illegally and is skulking around. He is suspected of blowing up a civilian airliner in flight, directing a string of hotel bombings and plotting to kill a head of state. He's already escaped from prison once. You'd expect the Bush administration to ramp up to Threat Level Red, set the whole Homeland Security Department's hair on fire, rush Dick Cheney back to his lonely bunker, scour the countryside until the bad guy is found and then advise the warden at Guantanamo to expect a new guest.

But, no, it turns out that this is the drill only when the suspect's name is Mohammed. When his name is Luis Posada Carriles, and he's Cuban, and his alleged terrorist career was aimed at toppling or killing Fidel Castro, the procedure is different. You do nothing but wait patiently for him to surface and apply for political asylum. Oh, and you try to gauge the impact on presidential brother Jeb Bush and the rest of the Republican Party in Florida.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55031-2005Apr14.html


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[peacetalksforall]

1. Great post...great commentary......they will probably announce that the

color alerts have been discontinued. Here we have a situation where we have all these hot colors for terrorism alerts and we have an incendiary hot color criminal and no one has raised the threat level.

Maybe they have to call Asa or Ashcroft. Where is Ridge when we need him?

[kliljedahl]

2. Yeah, I posted it this morning

Not much response, maybe too early. Thought I'd try again.


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[peacetalksforall]

3. I was kinda flip with my reply and this is serious stuff. I posted a

long reply yesterday or the day before and don't have time to get worked up again right now. I hope it will get some eyes on it later this evening.

[kliljedahl]

4. It was an editorial this morning

Similar threads possibly started earlier. bullimiami was the only response this morning. Its such an indictment of the Bushco hypocrisy & is getting little play in MSM. Surprise, surprise.


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[Rincewind]

5. you're wrong

Sorry, you're wrong. Since he's trying to kill someone the U.S. doesn't like, he's not a terrorist, he's a "freedom fighter". If he sells drugs to finance his terror, I mean freedom campaign, then he's "the moral equivalent to the founding fathers". If he kills innocent children in his viscous attacks, I mean "noble works", they aren't victims, they are "collateral damage". And if you find the * administration allowing him to stay here, you are not a concerned citizen you are "unamerican". Please use the proper government approved definitions in the future. Heil Hitler, I mean support our president.