Luis Posada Carriles is ‘one of the most prolific purveyors of political violence in recent history,’ yet lives as a free man in Miami.Why Won’t Bush Arrest Terrorists Living In Florida?By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 23rd, 2007The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight recently held its first Congressional hearing on the case of Cuban exile and accused terrorist Luis PosadaCarriles.Posada is something of an embarassment for the Bush Administration, which has based its grabs for increased Executive Branch power on the notion that a more intrusive government would protect us of from terrorists, foreign and domestic.Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales flatly refused to proclaim Posada a terrorist, and an American judge dismissed charges of immigration fraud against the Cuban exile last spring. He currently lives as a free man in Miami, FL.Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst of the National Security Archive, a non-governmental secrecy watchdog group, has a rather different view of Posada. He testified last week to the House panel on declassified FBI and CIA intelligence reports which link Posada with the October 6th, 1976 terrorist explosion of a Cuban airliner. The bombing killed all 73 civilians and crew aboard.Kornbluh testified that the declassified intelligence documents reveal that Posada knew that the bombing was to happen; that he possessed a surveillance study on Cuban targets which included the stricken plane; that he was sent coded messages from the individuals who planted the bombs just after the plane crashed into the ocean; and that he was soon identified as one of the two masterminds behind the terrorist attack by numerous CIA and FBI sources in Venezuela.Orlando Bosch, who also lives in Miami, has been identified by both the FBI and CIA as Posada’s co-conspirator in the terrorist attack.Kornbluh said that Posada is “one of the most prolific purveyors of political violence in recent history,” adding that the evidence linking him to the Cuban civilian airline bombing is “more than sufficient” to arrest Posada for engaging in international terrorism–just the type of person the Bush Administration claimed it would bring to justice thanks to its expanded powers under the so-called “Patriot Act”. “The United States now finds itself in the frankly inexplicable position of having not one but both men who our own intelligence agencies identified as responsible for bringing down a civilian airliner living free and unfettered lives in Florida,” Kornbluh testified to the panel.Why this apparent refusal to arrest two people probably responsible for such a despicable act of terrorism? Could it have something to do with the fact that Mr. Posada and Mr. Bosch probably have spread terror among the people of communist-run Cuba, and that such a de-stabilizing situation might not be considered such a big deal by America’s neo-conservative administration?Not long after 9/11, we recall George W. Bush correctly stating that there is no excuse which justifies an act of terrorism upon civilians. But apparently, he and his administration feel that some terrorist acts are worse than others.Like what you’re reading so far? Then why not order a full year (52 issues) of thee-newsletter for only $15? A major article covering an story not being told in the Corporate Press will be delivered to your email every Monday morning for a full year, for less than 30 cents an issue. Order Now!
How Necessary Laws Are Killed These Days
Lawmakers generally only fight to protect the things they care about – and all too often, that just doesn’t include the lives of most of their constituents.
