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DOES THE US HARBOR TERRORISTS?
May 07, 2007 4:51 PM
Some call him the "Bin Laden of the Americas", but others say he is a freedom fighter. Luis Posada Carriles was released from a US jail last month. Critics say his case proves America's war on terror is inconsistent, because they say Posada, a Fidel Castro nemisis, bombed a Cuban passenger plane in 1976. All 73 people on board died. Venezuela considers him a fugitive, he escaped from jail there in 1985 pending trial.
Today Cuba and Venezuela want him extradited. But instead he was released from a US prison, the charges of immigration fraud that he faced thrown out by a US judge.
Roseanne Nenninger was vour guest this week on the Exclusiva webcast. Her brother Raymond Persaud was one of the 73 passengers killed on the Cuban plane. He was only 19 years-old when he was killed, for his family 9-11 came in 1976.
The Cubana bombing remains the only midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere.
Do you think the US is harboring a terrorist in Luis Posada Carriles? Or is he a Cuban patriot, a freedom fighter against Castro's dictatorship?
You can listen to the Exclusiva podcast on Itunes for the complete interview with Roseanne Nenninger.
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The US is definitely being hypocritical here, but that's nothing new. Our country has always supported the terrorists we need(ed) to get things done.
Posted by: Jessica | May 9, 2007 8:14:47 PM
We are only being inconsistant if you are an leftist who
1) Believes communist propoganda
2) Does not understand the difference between C4 and TNT
3) Confuses anti-communism with Islamism.
4) Does not understand that he was prosecuted.
Posted by: Ron Lewenberg | May 22, 2007 2:42:30 AM
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