De overheidsbewegingen van de V.S. om terrorist op de banden van de CIA te knevelen
Met zijn proef op immigratielasten die voor 11 worden geplaatst Mei, heeft de overheid van de V.S. een motie in federaal hof ingediend dat de internationale terrorist Luis Posada Carriles van het getuigen op zijn rol als agent van het Centrale Agentschap van de Intelligentie wil versperren.
Venezuela heeft geëist: dat Posada Carriles wordt uitgeleverd om lasten onder ogen te zien daar betrekking had op zijn het masterminding van het bombarderen van 1976 van een Cubaanse burgerlijke passagiersstraal die 73 mensen doodde. Hij vermeed misdaad-bij straf voor de slechtste enige handeling van terrorisme in Westelijk hemisfeer-door een aan Venezolaanse gevangenis in 1985 te ontsnappen.
Overtredend internationale en tweezijdige verdragen, heeft Washington het verzoek van Venezuela afgewezen, in plaats daarvan belastend Posada Carriles met minder belangrijke schendingen van V.S.- immigratiewet voor het ingaan van de V.S. zonder een visum en het liggen aan immigratieambtenaren. Vorige maand, werd de terrorist, die in federale bewaring sinds Mei 2005 was geweest, vrijgegeven op borgtocht en terugkeerde aan Miami.
De versie heeft internationale protesten veroorzaakt en de schijnheiligheid van de zogenaamde „globale oorlog op terrorisme“ dat door een overheid blootgesteld wordt afgekondigd die heeft gesponsord en aan haven verdergegaan en beschermt een gewilde terrorist.
De motie van negen pagina's die aan het federale hof in El Paso, Texas wordt voorgelegd, debatteert dat het verband tussen Posada Carriles en de CIA 30 jaar beëindigde geleden en daarom is onbelangrijk.
De vrijgegeven documenten hebben bepaald dat Carriles werd aangeworven aangezien een agent van de CIA in 1961, in het Leger van de V.S. voor een jaar van opleiding in vernieling en terroristentactiek werd gestuurd en direct op de loonlijst van de CIA op zijn minst tot 1967 bleef. Vanaf 1969 tot 1974, diende hij als hogere ambtenaar in de Venezolaanse geheime politie, DISIP, die met het vangen van, het martelen van en het doden van linkse tegenstanders van de overheid wordt belast. Tijdens die periode bleef hij een informant en „activa“ van de CIA in Latijns Amerika.
In 1976, plande hij luchtvaartlijn het bombarderen, overlatend zijn uitvoering aan twee werknemers van zijn privé detectiveagentschap dat hij in Caracas oprichtte nadat een verandering van overheid hem uit de geheime politie dwong. Enkel twee weken vóór de luchtvaartlijn van Oktober 1976 het bombarderen, werd hij geïmpliceerd in een andere terroristenaanval, dit in het centrum van Washington. A car bomb killed the exiled former foreign minister of Chile, Orlando Letelier, and an American aide, Ronni Moffitt.
After his escape from prison in Venezuela, Posada Carriles made his way to El Salvador, where he became a key operative in the illegal terror war against Nicaragua financed by the CIA and directed by the network established by the Reagan administration under the direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North of the National Security Council. He went on to Guatemala, becoming a government intelligence officer during a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
In the 1990s, by his own admission, Posada Carriles directed a series of terrorist bombings against hotels and tourist spots in Cuba, killing an Italian tourist.
And, in November 2000, he was involved in an aborted attempt to blow up a conference hall in Panama, where Cuban President Fidel Castro was scheduled to speak to hundreds of people. He was arrested and jailed for the plot, but then pardoned by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso in 2004, reportedly as the result of either US pressure or bribes from anti-Castro Cuban exile groups.
In response to the government attempt to quash any public testimony about Posada Carriles’s ties to the CIA, the terrorist’s defense lawyers filed a countermotion this week, insisting that it was impossible to discuss the “context” of the case without dealing with their client’s relation with the agency. Moreover, the document claimed, this relationship “lasted for 25 years.”
“The government’s statement that his service to the United States ended in 1976 is incorrect,” the document said.
The implications of the motion are clear. Posada Carriles was working for the CIA when he planned and executed the terrorist bombing that murdered 73 people aboard the Cuban plane as well as the car-bomb assassination in Washington. Moreover, he remained an agent or “asset” of the US intelligence agency while continuing to carry out acts of terrorist and repressive violence in Cuba, Central America and elsewhere for at least another decade. Both of the 1976 terrorist acts took place when George H.W. Bush, the current US president’s father, was director of the CIA.
Declassified documents obtained by the National Security Archive http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm in 2005 establish that the CIA had advance intelligence on the planned airline bombing and that the FBI’s attaché in Caracas had repeated contacts with one of the operatives who placed the bomb on the plane and, just days before the bombing, obtained a visa for him to travel to the US.
The US government’s attempt to gag Posada Carriles about his CIA ties and the countermotion alleging that these connections spanned at least 25 years expose the real reason that the Bush administration refuses to abide by international law and extradite him to Venezuela to face trial.
While the administration has offered the incredible justification that Posada Carriles could face torture in Venezuela—this from a government that has not only tortured its own detainees at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, but also deliberately sent them to other countries to be tortured—the real reason is that such a prosecution would expose Washington’s role in decades of terrorism and repression in Latin America.
On April 25, Venezuela’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, Nelson Pineda, charged the US with harboring a “convicted and confessed terrorist” and demanded that Washington comply with its bilateral extradition treaty with Venezuela. Pineda read out a statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry that stated:
“The freeing of the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is the final result of the maneuver that the government of George W. Bush put in motion to protect him and with this act it promotes impunity and disgracefully mocks the memory of the victims of the bombing of the Cubana de Aviación plane that took place in 1976.
“This act of complicity, committed by the sinister American president, seeks to buy the silence of Posada Carriles, who has for many years been an agent of the CIA and a pawn of the Bush clan, as the declassified documents of the US demonstrate and therefore has valuable information about the criminal activities carried out against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Responding to these charges, the US alternate representative to the OAS, Margarita Riva-Geoghegan, ignored Venezuela’s extradition request, baldly stating, “The United States is not harboring Luis Posada Carriles.” She continued, “The United States is proceeding with its own national prosecution in an area where Mr. Posada Carriles has broken US law.”
Such claims are absurd on their face. The charges of murder and terrorism, substantiated by Washington’s own declassified documents, clearly take precedence over the minor immigration infractions that are being used as a pretense for ignoring the demand for extradition and providing a cover for what is in reality the harboring and protection of Posada Carriles.
In Cuba, meanwhile, the annual May Day demonstration in Havana was dominated by signs and slogans demanding the extradition of Posada Carriles as well as the freeing of the “Cuban Five,” five Cuban nationals who have been jailed in the US since 1998. Framed up on conspiracy and espionage-related charges for monitoring anti-Castro terrorist exile groups based in Miami, the five were convicted in 2001 and sentenced to jail terms ranging from 15 years to life.
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