A Cuban conundrum (Boston Globe)

[struggle4progress]

May 30, 2005

THE CASE of Luis Posada Carriles, the anti-Castro Cuban terrorist who was on the CIA payroll, has become a dramatic test of President Bush's credibility as leader of a war on terrorism. If he allows Posada to avoid answering in a court of law for his terrorist acts -- acts about which Posada has boasted openly -- Bush will not only discredit his own public stance against terrorism; he will make US efforts to enlist others in antiterrorist actions appear selective and hypocritical.

Posada is in custody in Texas awaiting an immigration hearing on charges of entering this country illegally. The question of what to do with him does present legal, political, and ethical difficulties. But there is nothing ambiguous about the administration's obligation to show the world that one country's terrorist cannot be redefined as another's freedom fighter. Posada must not be sheltered from the law because his enemy, Fidel Castro, has also been Washington's enemy, or because Castro's ally, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, has said he will demand Posada's extradition to Venezuela, or because Posada's comrades in the anti-Castro community are political backers of Florida's Governor Jeb Bush.

Posada has been implicated by CIA and FBI documents in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. He took credit in an interview with The New York Times for a fatal bomb attack at tourist sites in Havana in 1997. These were crimes equal in cruelty, if not scale, to the crimes of Al Qaeda. <snip>

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/05/30/a_terror_conundrum/

[Jensen]

1. I bet he gets to stay.....

after all this terrorist is not against * so he is not a terrorist!