Man who tried to kill Castro is in hiding and waiting on Bush

[emad]

Man who tried to kill Castro is in hiding and waiting on Bush
By Phil Davison
15 May 2005


Is he an international terrorist - or a patriotic freedom fighter? At the age of 77, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles may seem a bit old to be either. But he certainly was one or the other for most of his life, dedicated to getting rid of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

How to classify the former CIA agent, convicted in the past of trying to assassinate Mr Castro and of killing 73 civilians by bombing a Cuban airliner, is proving a major dilemma for George Bush. The outcome could affect the President's credibility in his proclaimed war on terrorism.

Posada, a Venezuelan citizen who has also been linked by conspiracy theorists with the assassination of President John F Kennedy, is reported to have slipped across the Rio Grande from Mexico to the US in March. He had been in hiding, apparently in Honduras, since he was pardoned in Panama last August from an eight-year jail term for plotting to kill the Cuban leader during a summit meeting in that country in November 2000.

Posada is now widely thought to be underground in Miami, hiding among the city's many sympathetic anti-Castro Cuban exiles. His Miami lawyer, Eduardo Soto, says he should be granted political asylum in the US "because of his service to the country" while working for the CIA in the 1960s and '70s.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=638521

[Mika]

1. Did anyone check the CANF offices?

Google search on CANF + Terrorism








www.stopbolton.org

[Judi Lynn]

2. I've never seen any acceptable justification of the bombing mid-air

of the Cubana airliner, murdering all 73 people on board, including Cuba's very young national champion fencing team, 11 students from Guyana, etc., etc.

Luis Posada Carriles pardoner in crime, Orlando Bosch thinks he can cover it by claiming, "There were no innocents on board that plane."



If you see this man, don't bother to call the authorities.
Wouldn't matter, anyway. He's a friend of _Bush.

[JohnyCanuck]

10. Freedom fighters go direct to US embassy after planting bomb.

When the "freedom fighters" got off the plane in Barbados after planting their bomb, the first place they asked the taxi driver to take them was the US embassy. Wonder if they were picking up their paycheck.

And at some moment they asked the driver not to go to the hotel but to go to the American Embassy and, at a particular moment, something struck the mind of the driver. He listened when one of the individuals signalled a building, when approaching downtown Bridgetown, and referred to the American Embassy. In Bridgetown, at this moment, there were very few embassies. The US and very few countries had a representation there. We didn't at the time. This was noted by the driver because it is rather strange that somebody who is entering the country should know this, unless he had been there before.

Then they went to the Embassy, according to this driver.

Another taxi driver, from the hotel - after the Embassy, they went to the Holiday Inn - reported that, on two occasions, on the afternoon of that day, they asked him to bring them to the American Embassy.

http://www.counterpunch.org/allard04192005.html

[Robbien]

3. Does this mean Bush is going to declare Florida a terrorist state?

Didn't he say if anyone harbors terrorists, they are a terrorist state.

[Mika]

4. In Fla, its nothing new

Example (a short list):

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin.html

1974 Exile leader José Elias de la Torriente murdered in his Coral Gables home after failing to carry out a planned invasion of Cuba.

1974 Bomb blast guts the office of Spanish-language magazine Replica.

1974 Several small Cuban businesses, citing threats, stop selling Replica.

1974 Three bombs explode near a Spanish-language radio station.

1974 Hector Diaz Limonta and Arturo Rodriguez Vives murdered in internecine exile power struggles.

1975 Luciano Nieves murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba.

1975 Another bomb damages Replica's office.

1976 Rolando Masferrer and Ramon Donestevez murdered in internecine exile power struggles.

1976 Car bomb blows off legs of WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian after he publicly condemns exile violence.

1977 Juan José Peruyero murdered in internecine exile power struggles.

1979 Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment interrupted by gunfire and physical violence instigated by two exile groups.

1979 Bomb discovered at Padron Cigars, whose owner helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.

1979 Bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.

1980 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.

1980 Powerful anti-personnel bomb discovered at American Airways Charter, which arranges flights to Cuba.

1981 Bomb explodes at Mexican Consulate on Brickell Avenue in protest of relations with Cuba.

1981 Replica's office again damaged by a bomb.

1982 Two outlets of Hispania Interamericana, which ships medicine to Cuba, attacked by gunfire.

1982 Bomb explodes at Venezuelan Consulate in downtown Miami in protest of relations with Cuba.

1982 Bomb discovered at Nicaraguan Consulate.

1982 Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre defends $10,000 grant to exile commando group Alpha 66 by noting that the organization "has never been accused of terrorist activities inside the United States."

1983 Another bomb discovered at Replica.

1983 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.

1983 Bomb explodes at Paradise International, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1983 Bomb explodes at Little Havana office of Continental National Bank, one of whose executives, Bernardo Benes, helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.

1983 Miami City Commissioner Demetrio Perez seeks to honor exile terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, accidentally killed while assembling a bomb. (Perez is now a member of the Miami-Dade County Public School Board and owner of the Lincoln-Martí private school where Elian Gonzalez is enrolled.)

1983 Gunfire shatters windows of three Little Havana businesses linked to Cuba.

1986 South Florida Peace Coalition members physically attacked in downtown Miami while demonstrating against Nicaraguan contra war.

1987 Bomb explodes at Cuba Envios, which ships packages to Cuba.

1987 Bomb explodes at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to Cuba.

1987 Bomb explodes at Cubanacan, which ships packages to Cuba.

1987 Car belonging to Bay of Pigs veteran is firebombed.

1987 Bomb explodes at Machi Viajes a Cuba, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1987 Bomb explodes outside Va Cuba, which ships packages to Cuba.

1988 Bomb explodes at Miami Cuba, which ships medical supplies to Cuba.

1988 Bomb threat against Iberia Airlines in protest of Spain's relations with Cuba.

1988 Bomb explodes outside Cuban Museum of Art and Culture after auction of paintings by Cuban artists.

1988 Bomb explodes outside home of Maria Cristina Herrera, organizer of a conference on U.S.-Cuba relations.

1988 Bomb threat against WQBA-AM after commentator denounces Herrera bombing.

1988 Bomb threat at local office of Immigration and Naturalization Service in protest of terrorist Orlando Bosch being jailed.

1988 Bomb explodes near home of Griselda Hidalgo, advocate of unrestricted travel to Cuba.

1988 Bomb damages Bele Cuba Express, which ships packages to Cuba.

1989 Another bomb discovered at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to Cuba.

1989 Two bombs explode at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1990 Another, more powerful, bomb explodes outside the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture.

1991 Using crowbars and hammers, exile crowd rips out and urinates on Calle Ocho "Walk of Fame" star of Mexican actress Veronica Castro, who had visited Cuba.

1992 Union Radio employee beaten and station vandalized by exiles looking for Francisco Aruca, who advocates an end to U.S. embargo.

1992 Cuban American National Foundation mounts campaign against the Miami Herald, whose executives then receive death threats and whose newsracks are defaced and smeared with feces.

1992 Americas Watch releases report stating that hard-line Miami exiles have created an environment in which "moderation can be a dangerous position."

1993 Inflamed by Radio Mambí commentator Armando Perez-Roura, Cuban exiles physically assault demonstrators lawfully protesting against U.S. embargo. Two police officers injured, sixteen arrests made. Miami City Commissioner Miriam Alonso then seeks to silence anti-embargo demonstrators: "We have to look at the legalities of whether the City of Miami can prevent them from expressing themselves."

1994 Human Rights Watch/Americas Group issues report stating that Miami exiles do not tolerate dissident opinions, that Spanish-language radio promotes aggression, and that local government leaders refuse to denounce acts of intimidation.

1994 Two firebombs explode at Replica magazine's office.

1994 Bomb threat to law office of Magda Montiel Davis following her videotaped exchange with Fidel Castro.

1996 Music promoter receives threatening calls, cancels local appearance of Cuba's La Orquesta Aragon.

1996 Patrons attending concert by Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba physically assaulted by 200 exile protesters. Transportation for exiles arranged by Dade County Commissioner Javier Souto.

1996 Firebomb explodes at Little Havana's Centro Vasco restaurant preceding concert by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes.

1996 Firebomb explodes at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba.

1996 Arson committed at Tu Familia Shipping, which ships packages to Cuba.

1997 Bomb threats, death threats received by radio station WRTO-FM following its short-lived decision to include in its playlist songs by Cuban musicians.

1998 Bomb threat empties concert hall at MIDEM music conference during performance by 91-year-old Cuban musician Compay Segundo.

1998 Bomb threat received by Amnesia nightclub in Miami Beach preceding performance by Cuban musician Orlando "Maraca" Valle.

1998 Firebomb explodes at Amnesia nightclub preceding performance by Cuban singer Manolín.

1999 Violent protest at Miami Arena performance of Cuban band Los Van Van leaves one person injured, eleven arrested.

1999 Bomb threat received by Seville Hotel in Miami Beach preceding performance by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes. Hotel cancels concert.

I've got a list that adds about 6 times more bombings than above.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. When I moved to Miami

in 77 bombings were happening on a regular basis. I can remember seeing blown up resturants and businesses and most people thinking it wasn't that big a deal cause it was just the crazy Cubans. What a world.

[Mika]

9. Its not just Cuban exile terra. Its anti Aristide Haitian terra too

Several Haitian activists and radio hosts in Miami have been shot or bombed to death also.

Miami is a fascist cesspit of murder and mayhem. (Meanwhile, the "gringos" in Miami know virtually nothing about all of this, nor do they seem to care.)


As Judi Lynn has pointed out previously, Miami is the terror capital of the USA.

[RebelOne]

16. Miami is the hell hole of the South.

After living most of my life there, I finally couldn't take it anymore and moved up here to North Georgia in 1989.

[Judi Lynn]

7. It wasn't whimsical when the FBI designated Miami as the "terror capital"

of the country.

I'm still waiting for <Bush> to declare war on Florida. Miami is a haven for terrorists, it's the terror capital of the world. All these Latin American and Cuban terrorists go there to refresh, to retire, to conduct their business. If Bush wants to make a war on terror he should start by bombing Miami and arresting the governor of Florida, even if he is his brother.... And after he's successfully done away with terrorism in Miami, then we'll talk about the next step.

It is difficult to deny that the U.S. has a calculated penchant for ignoring its own terrorists, including groups and individuals trained and financed either directly or indirectly by the U.S. military; not just the "gusano" mafia in Florida, but also fundamentalist Christian mass murderer General Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala, Savimbi and Renamo in Angola and Mozambique, and the Nicaraguan Contras. Clearly, the U.S. has employed every conceivable tactic to ensure that socialist experiments are doomed to fail. As William Blum writes:

The boys of capital, they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism. The word has been banned from polite conversation. And they hope that no one will notice that every socialist experiment of any significance in the twentieth century-without exception-has either been crushed, overthrown, or invaded, or corrupted, perverted, subverted, or destabilized, or otherwise had life made impossible for it, by the United States. Not one socialist government or movement-from the Russian Revolution to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, from Communist China to the EMLN in Salvador-not one was permitted to rise or fall solely on its own merits; not one was left secure enough to drop its guard against the all-powerful enemy abroad and freely and fully relax control at home.
(snip/...)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Militarization_America/Terrorism_MOW.html

[Mika]

11. You forgot the Shah of Iran. He came to Miami also.

Friggin amazing when you think about.






www.stopbolton.org

[Judi Lynn]

15. Really! Didn't know.

I heard from someone who worked in Pensacola that a relative of the Shah's attended the helicopter training school there around 1971, or 1972, but I didn't know the Shah was ever in Florida, God bless him. Not.

_{Mark Twain: "Patriotism means being loyal to our country all the time and to its government when it deserves it.}

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. "The boys of capital,

they also chortle in their martinis about the death of socialism".

Not as long as we've got the French in our corner! They look set to put the boot into the EU's penchant for globalism, by voting "NON!" to its suggested new constitution, in an upcoming referendum.

For some reason they don't want the Turks and the Chinese taking their jobs, and intimate as much ever so politely (NOT) to their leaders. Vive la France!

[FreedomAngel82]

19. He wouldn't do that though

He wouldn't declare war on Florida. If he does it'd be after his brother isn't governor anymore and he and his family is long gone back to Texas or somewhere up north.

[lonestarnot]

13. Little taco dog, little taco dog! Now that's a damn list!

[Mika]

14. Miami OFFICIALLY honors terrorists

Not only does Miami have an official Orlando Bosch day, check this

From the Miami New Times list posted earlier,

1983 Miami City Commissioner Demetrio Perez seeks to honor exile terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, accidentally killed while assembling a bomb.

Well what do ya know.. the resolution passed..


http://www.aguadadepasajeros.bravepages.com/english/executed_def.htm

De la Cruz, Juan Felipe: 2 August 1973, Dead in action, France. He tried to make an attack to the embassy of Cuba. The explosive weapon was activated. He was buried in the cemetery Woodlawn of Miami, Florida. August 2 1983 three Cuban Mayors of Dade County, Florida, declared Juan Felipe de la Cruz Day.

Cesspit doesn't even begin to describe Miami.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Oh, God! This is the limit.They've simply gone berserk in Miami.

Right in keeping with a city which has city commissioners like Miriam Alonso who passed out enough money from her campaign contributions to her daughter to make the down payment on her house, completely furnish her own house, and use her city employees as personal servants.

Or the owner of the private Lincoln Marti schools in Miami, Dimitrio Perez, who scammed his Cuban tenants using taxpayer-funded Section 8 housing alotments to make himself even wealthier, and continued to make his radio program broadcasts from his own home while under house arrest.

The unbelievable array of political criminals is staggering. They brought their dirty way of doing business straight to Miami from Havana after the revolution, including filthy election habits, and, although they boast CONTINUALLY of turning Miami from a "sleepy little fishing village" to a "world class city," they actually turned it into the recurrent "poorest city over 500,000 population" according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Your information concerning Juan Felipe de la Cruz is almost the last straw! He's a MARTYR, now! Swear words.

[emad]

5. One of Shrub's top gangster crook chums, Malcom Glazer, has just

bought UK's top football team Manchester United.

He owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and has now bought out IRA scumbags Magnier, Tabor & McManus from their MUFC shares.

[JanMichael]

8. Not just Florida, the whole damned country.

If we aren't shooting cruise missiles at people we're offing their leaders with proxy hitmen.

Then we install autocratic fascist regimes to keep the markets "free".

Yuck

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Nah he wouldn't do that

his older brother is governor. If he did would that place dear old Jeb in jail for allowing him to be there? Not surprised it's Florida. :crazy: