The fight between different branches of the U.S. government to decide CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles' fate begins to look like a scripted professional wrestling match, as a US court orders the release on bond of the accused killer of 73 people in a 1976 airline bombing, and other terrorist acts, jailed only on immigration charges.
Relatives of 73 Cubans killed in a 1976 airline bombing blamed on Cuban-born former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles have denounced a US court ruling to release him from jail on bond. Posada was arrested in Venezuela a few days after the jetliner bombing but escaped from prison in 1985 before a civilian trial in the case was completed. He is still wanted in that country and in Cuba, which also accuses him of plotting a series of Havana hotel bombings in 1997.
Critics have repeatedly accused the US government of protecting Posada – who trained for the Bay of Pigs invasion and served in the US Army in the 1960s – by holding him on less-serious immigration charges. Venezuela has called upon the US to honor several international treaties it has signed compelling Washington to either try or extradite Posada.
From the NewStandard's summary U.S. to release accused anti-Castro terrorist on bail (I love the NewStandard, but using "anti-Castro" to preface terrorist for a mass murderer like Posada is a bit of a whitewash-- but at least they correctly identify him as a terrorist).
