An El Paso judge threw out all charges against Cuban-born terrorist mastermind Luis Posada Cabrilles. In dismissing the charges judge Kathleen Cardone stated that “The evidence is overwhelming that the Government improperly manipulated the administration of criminal justice in order to secure a criminal indictment(s) against defendant.”
Posada has long been suspected of multiple bombings in Cuba, including the 1976 downing of Cubana airlines flight 455, killing 73 people. More recently, he has been linked to a string of bombings against tourists in Cuba as well as a plot in 2000 to assassinate Fidel Castro. He was sent to prison in Venezuela for the airliner bombing but escaped, reportedly using a false passport to disappear into the United States. Posada was arrested in 2005 for immigration charges but was not deported to Venezuela for fear that he could be “tortured.”
It bears mentioning that Posada is a long-time CIA operative. Among many secret missions against Castro, Posada was deeply involved in the training of the Nicaraguan Contras, a terrorist organization created by the Reagan Administration.
How’s that for your so-called war on terror? Posada is a man who practically boasts about his association with murders, most of which were committed while he was working for the CIA. We have a chance to put away a real, live terrorist, and he walks. First we refuse to deport him because we’re afraid he’ll be tortured. Then we drop the charges altogether for some unspecified reasons. Our CIA happily kidnaps innocent men and flies them to countries that practice torture like Egypt, Morocco, and Syria without blinking an eye, yet a terrorist like Posada – a man a hundred times more dangerous than anyone held at Guantanamo or anywhere else – has been given a permanent get-out-of-jail-free card.
I suppose terrorists are okay as long as they are our terrorists. War on terror, my ass.
Posada is a sanctioned terrorist. It’s only the unsanctioned terrorists that they have a problem with….