Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Follow-up: Posada Carriles indictment tossed out

If Fidel Castro wasn’t sufficiently peeved at Luis Posada Carriles before, then this will really stick in his craw:

Yesterday a U.S. federal court dropped the immigration charges against Posada Carriles. Jury selection was supposed to begin on Friday in the trial against he suspected bomber, but U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone blasted the prosecution for "fraud, deceit, and trickery" in the way it ran the case.

So far, Fidel has been publicly mum over the court’s decision. However, an article in official newspaper Granma bemoaned the “predicted impunity” of the court’s decision, and an official at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington accused the Bush administration of protecting Posada Carriles.

Links- The Latin Americanist, Guardian UK, BBC News, Miami Herald

Image- Miami Herald (Luis Posada Carriles leaving federal court last week along with his attorneys)

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:52 AM

    Sorry for the late post but this is ridiculous. How can a know terrorist be let free in the US no less is beyond me. After all our tough talk of fighting terrorism, the US only come out as hypocritical. As for the Cuban exiles who claim Carriles is a patriot, get real. Not everyone advocates your form of "patriotism". Would they consider Bin Laden a hero for trying to rid Western influence after the 9/11 attacks? Or, is there a double standard? Carriles committed a crime regardless of who his backers were and should be treated as a criminal.

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