In a follow-up from this story, Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA employee who faces terrorism charges in Venezuela and Cuba for bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, had immigration charges against him dropped by a US federal judge. US authorities have refused to send Carriles to Cuba or Venezuela where he would be tried for his crimes, but they did detain him in 2005 for entering the US illegally. In a court in El Paso, Texas, US district judge Kathleen Cardone accused the US government of “fraud, deceit, and trickery.”

A veteran anti-communist, Posada was jailed in Venezuela over the airliner bombing, but escaped from jail in 1985 during an appeal against his conviction.

He was then jailed in Panama in 2000 for plotting the assassination of his arch-enemy Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but was pardoned and released four years later.

US authorities are also reported to be investigating whether Posada was involved in the bombing of a Havana hotel in 1997, that killed an Italian tourist.

On a Miami-based radio station, the terrorist seemingly mocked his victims by saying, “Thank God, you, all of my brothers, the people in Cuba… for this victory.” A statement from the Cuban government reacted angrily in response. “This decision is an outrage to the Cuban people and to the nations that lost 73 of its sons and daughters in the heinous 1976 attack that blew up a civilian Cubana de Aviación aircraft off the coast of Barbados.”

The statement further accused Washington of employing a double standard in its “War on Terror”. It further read, “The terrorist’s release has been concocted by the White House as compensation for Posada Carriles not to reveal what he knows, not to talk about the countless secrets he keeps on his protracted period as an agent of the US special services.” Venezuela also said the US was letting Carriles get away with murder because of his CIA past. Don’t these commies know terrorism is justified when we do it?

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