American Judge Releases CIA Terrorist Asset

Last Updated: Thursday, 19 April 2007,
18:44 GMT 19:44 UK
BBC

An anti-communist Cuban exile, Luis Posada Carriles, has been released on bail in the US.

Mr Posada, 79, has been in US detention since May 2005, after entering the country illegally. He faces a trial on immigration charges.

A former CIA employee, he is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba over the downing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in which 73 people died. He denies involvement.

Mr Posada was also jailed in Panama over a plot to assassinate President Fidel Castro during a visit by the Cuban leader to Panama in 2000, but freed in 2004.

The El Paso federal court ordered his release earlier this month on $350,000 (£180,000) bail and on the basis that he remain in his Miami home and submit to electronic monitoring. Mr Posada's lawyer said he was travelling to Miami, where his wife lives, ahead of his trial on immigration fraud charges.

US authorities have ruled out returning him to Cuba or Venezuela.

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What happened to Bush's threats (along the lines of):

"Wheter you're a terrorist, or a country which harbors a terrorist, you'll be accountable for their actions?"

Or, why were no economic sanctions placed on the US for the downing of the Cuban Airliner, like it was imposed on Libya for downing Pan Am, over Scotland?

Or, why wasn't the U.S. bombed, just like Reagan ordered the bombing of Libya for it's complicity in the La Belle Disco bombing, in Germany?

Or, why wasn't their a missile strike against the US, just like there was one against Iraq, when Saddam allegedly attempted to assassinate Bush Sr. on his visit to Kuwait?

This is just another sample of U.S. government hypocrisy at its best: "Do as we say, not as we do!"