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Letting a Cuban Terrorist Go Free
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chatnoir
2014-12-18 15:18:06 UTC
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From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.

By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)

excerpt:

The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."

In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles

Luis Posada Carriles

More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.

As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
rumpelstiltskin
2014-12-18 15:42:14 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
If he really was involved in that airline bombing,
the man's a mass murderer, the scum of the earth,
and that's all there is to it.
mg
2014-12-18 19:02:24 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.

http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
rumpelstiltskin
2014-12-18 20:28:36 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:40:20 -0800,
Post by rumpelstiltskin
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.
http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
A person who blows up a passenger airplane, especially one
containing a team of young people, is a terrorist.
rumpelstiltskin
2014-12-18 20:28:59 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.
http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
A person who blows up a passenger airplane, especially one
containing a team of young people, is a terrorist.
mg
2014-12-18 21:04:12 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:28:59 -0800,
Post by rumpelstiltskin
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.
http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
A person who blows up a passenger airplane, especially one
containing a team of young people, is a terrorist.
Here's an interesting article, incidentally, about Israel and all the
terrorist acts they have been responsible for:
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Israeli%20Prime%20Ministers%20Terrorists%20Nakba.htm'

Here's a small excerpt from the article:

"Menachem Begin once described a massacre as "a splendid act of
conquest." Albert Einstein and 25 other Jewish intellectuals called
Begin and his ilk terrorists, fascists and religious fanatics in a
1948 open letter to the New York Times, comparing them to European
fascists like the Nazis. Begin killed Brits, Arabs and Jews with
reckless abandon, including civilians, and was also involved in the
Deir Yassin massacre and other acts of terrorism such as the bombing
of the King David Hotel. "
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Israeli%20Prime%20Ministers%20Terrorists%20Nakba.htm
rumpelstiltskin
2014-12-19 05:35:36 UTC
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Post by mg
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:28:59 -0800,
Post by rumpelstiltskin
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.
http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
A person who blows up a passenger airplane, especially one
containing a team of young people, is a terrorist.
Here's an interesting article, incidentally, about Israel and all the
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Israeli%20Prime%20Ministers%20Terrorists%20Nakba.htm'
"Menachem Begin once described a massacre as "a splendid act of
conquest." Albert Einstein and 25 other Jewish intellectuals called
Begin and his ilk terrorists, fascists and religious fanatics in a
1948 open letter to the New York Times, comparing them to European
fascists like the Nazis. Begin killed Brits, Arabs and Jews with
reckless abandon, including civilians, and was also involved in the
Deir Yassin massacre and other acts of terrorism such as the bombing
of the King David Hotel. "
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Israeli%20Prime%20Ministers%20Terrorists%20Nakba.htm
I agree with Einstein.
mg
2014-12-18 23:18:30 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:28:59 -0800,
Post by rumpelstiltskin
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 07:18:06 -0800 (PST), chatnoir
Post by chatnoir
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/17/letting-a-cuban-terrorist-go-free/
From the Archive: As much as U.S. officials have decried "terrorism" - even equating harboring a terrorist with the actual deed - they have applied a completely different standard to "our" terrorists who are protected from extradition and treated with kid gloves, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.
By Robert Parry (Originally published on April 9, 2011)
The acquittal of right-wing Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles on charges of lying to immigration officials in 2011 underscored the U.S. double standard on terrorists, applying delicate legal rules to "ours" and a rough-and-tumble approach to "theirs."
In the Posada case, federal prosecutors sought to prove that Posada lied at an immigration hearing when he denied a role in a lethal bombing campaign inside Cuba in the 1990s. The perjury case rested heavily on taped admissions that Posada made in an interview with a New York Times reporter, although he later recanted those statements.
Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Posada Carriles
More notoriously, however, Posada was implicated in the mid-air bombing of a Cubana Airliner in 1976, killing 73 people onboard including the country's youth fencing team. Though the evidence of Posada's role in that attack is strong, U.S. authorities have ruled out turning him over to Venezuela or Cuba to face prosecution for mass murder.
As the acquittal on April 8, 2011, showed, Posada continued to earn lots of sympathy because the former CIA operative was viewed by some as a Cold War hero who has battled Fidel Castro for many years. At Posada's perjury trial in El Paso, Texas, his lawyers appealed to the jury to let him live out his life in Miami. The jury apparently agreed, acquitting the 83-year-old after only three hours of deliberation.
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.
http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
A person who blows up a passenger airplane, especially one
containing a team of young people, is a terrorist.
I do agree with you, by the way.
Gary
2014-12-19 12:04:28 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:28:59 -0800,
Post by mg
Post by mg
‘One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter’.
http://www.e-ir.info/2010/02/02/%E2%80%98one-person%E2%80%99s
-terrorist-is-another-person%E2%80%99s-freedom-fighter%E2%80%99/
A person who blows up a passenger airplane, especially one
containing a team of young people, is a terrorist.
Are the lives of young people more precious than the lives
of older folk ? I think this is historically inaccurate.
Why else do they always send the youth off to war -- to die
while protecting the old and rich ?

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