Where is Luis Posada?
But for the last few decades, wherever Posada goes the specter of the Bush dynasty follows. At the time of the Cubana bombing, on October 6, 1976, George H.W. Bush was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and newly released records show that agency involvement with the bombing was greater than even suspected by many of the more cynical observers. It does not get any clearer than the CIA report of June 22, 1976, that stated, "a Cuban Exile extremist group, of which Orlando Bosch [a long-time partner of Posada] is a leader, plans to place a bomb on a Cubana Airline flight traveling between Panama and Havana." Bush senior was also Vice President of the United States when Posada “escaped” from a Venezuelan prison while being tried for the Cubana bombing. Posada resurfaced soon after his 1985 escape from Venezuela, as Ramon Medina, a chief player in the Iran-Contra affair,a grotesquerie hatched by the CIA and the Reagan-Bush Administration that helped fund itself by facilitating drug sales in the United States. In 1986, Bush family friend and lapdog, Elliot Abrams, lied stone-faced to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about U.S. involvement in the "contra" affair, making sure to protect Bush senior:
"Mr. Stokes asked whether denial of U.S. involvement included the Vice President. Mr. Abram’s said Mr. Gregg of the Vice President’s staff had introduced Mr. [Felix] Rodriguez to Salvadoran Air Force officials in 1984 to serve as an adviser on air/ground operations. Mr. Rodriguez’ actions since that time were on his own."
Abrams has resurfaced as a chief adviser in the Bush junior administration. And Bush senior, as President, released Posada’s comrade-in-arms, Orlando Bosch, from federal detention in 1990. Now with the weight of all this history on him, and no doubt tremendous familial pressure, Bush junior must decide what to do with a 77-year-old terrorist who is really the living embodiment of a failed United States policy of decades past. The federal government transported Posada to El Paso, Texas, where he is to have a bond hearing on July 25.
We are unable to go into any further detail, but credible information has it that Posada is no longer in El Paso. Additionally, two separate calls to the detention facility supposedly holding Posada yielded differing information concerning his upcoming bond hearing. During a call this morning, employees said that the bond hearing set for the 25th will be accomplished electronically, with neither Posada nor his attorney to be present. Later in the day, however, a second call to the detention center yielded the information that Posada was “most definitely” at that facility and that he would be present for the bond hearing next Monday.
Bill Conroy, well known to regular readers of Narco News and the Narcosphere, said that he checked with sources on the inside and could not confirm that Posada had been moved. But one of his sources said that “it would not be a big surprise if Posada were moved. They could move him on a whim, claiming he was under threat or for some national security pretense. [The government] want[s] to control [Posada] as much as [it] can without killing him.”
If the U.S. is moving Posada around, it is in an effort to play a shell game with its own past. It must be difficult to know what to do with someone whose life and experience span U.S.-sponsored murder, deceit and lies perpetrated upon people and democracies, and who is a Bush family member by ideology, temperament, and disgust for law, if not by birth. Samuel Beckett once said that, “Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.” We will soon find out what chains George W. Bush to Luis Posada.
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Carriles' health is failing?
Submitted on July 20th, 2005 by Bill ConroyNothing is new about Carriles’ lawyer portraying him as a victim. The Miami Herald report conveniently fails to address the public-record trail pointing to Carriles evil deeds, however.
But this is the first mention of Carriles’ health problems I have seen in the mainstream press since his capture.
Given Bill Weaver’s report about Carriles’ alleged departure from El Paso, one has to wonder what scheme is now afoot. It also brings to mind the comments of the intelligence official who spoke with Narco News in an earlier story:
OK, cancer and heart disease aren’t the same as syphilis, but they are still a pretty deadly combination for a 77-year-old locked away in the bowels of the U.S. prison system.
If it’s true, it sure is a convenient development for the Bush Administration.
And as far as Carriles’ lawyer trying to play the sympathy card for his client – hoping that might get him sprung -- well, unless he’s living under a shrimp boat somewhere, he should know that dog won't hunt.
Carriles: The Bird Man of El Paso
Submitted on July 23rd, 2005 by Bill ConroyFrom that lead in, the author, Tom Crumpacker, goes on to weave a trail connecting George Bush Sr. to Carriles and the assassination of JFK.
So, according to Crumpacker, Carriles could well be the missing link to unraveling a chain of deceits that have shackled justice and truth in the Americas for a half century.
Who knows? Conspiracy theories tend to weigh like an albatross around the neck of any individual who advances them.
But then so many pieces of the puzzle seem to fit along the edges of this picture. So every new piece has to be examined as though it matters.
One thing is certain. As it stands now, Carriles is an albatross around the Bush Administration's neck. Because if the bird man ever does chirp, he likely could prove that some longstanding conspiracy theories are, in fact, not theories at all.