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New Delaying Maneuver in
Case of Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 27 (acn)
Taking the migratory cause against international and self-confessed
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to the US Supreme Court is a new
delaying maneuver to avoid the extradition of the criminal to either
Venezuela or Panama.
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On Tuesday, Granma news daily publishes an article in
which it quotes Posada’s lawyer in Miami, Arturo V. Hernandez.
“There have been no indictments to my knowledge,” Hernandez said
regarding an accusation against Posada for his involvement in a
terrorist bomb campaign against Cuban tourist facilities in 1997.
However, he announced that he was appealing Posada’s immigration
case to the Supreme Court.
Three days after the Panamanian Government announced last October
that it would file an extradition request in the case of Posada
Carriles, the Appeals Court of New Orleans ordered that the
terrorist again be tried in El Paso, Texas, on immigration fraud
charges.
However, the court abstained from ordering the detention of the
criminal who is still free in Miami, where he has participated in
public activities organized by anti-Cuba terrorist groups.
Since Posada’s arrest in Florida in 2005, Venezuela filed an
extradition request and now Jose Pertierra, a lawyer in Washington
that represents the Venezuelan government, announced that they would
put forward additional evidence linking Posada to the 1976 mid-air
bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed
all 73 people onboard.
The Panamanian Supreme Court last year overturned a pardon granted
to the terrorist by then-president Mireya Moscoso in 2004.
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