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Cuba Condemns Release of Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles at UN Security Council

CUBA, December 10, 2008. Cuba reiterated on Tuesday its denunciation of the release in the United States of international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

During a session of the UN Security Council dedicated to the threats that terrorist actions pose to peace and security, the Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, Ileana Nuñez, recalled that it has been a year and a half since the release of Posada Carriles in the United States.

“However, in spite of all the evidence that the US Government has of his vast terrorist record, Washington has not accused him,” Nuñez said.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the diplomat added that this is a clear and flagrant violation of UN Resolution 1373 and others pertaining to the UN Security Council and the General Assembly and several international legal instruments regarding the fight against terrorism.

Posada Carriles’s terrorist record includes the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed all 73 people on board.

Nuñez stressed that the Cuban Government demands that Washington extradites the criminal to Venezuela or judge him in US territory.

In contrast to the US behavior in the case of Posada Carriles, the Cuban ambassador recalled that, for the past 10 years, Washington has held five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters as political prisoners for infiltrating anti-Cuba extremist groups in South Florida that were planning and carrying out terrorist actions against the Caribbean nation.

“Once again, we demand their immediate release,” Nuñez said.(Cubaminrex- ACN)

 

 

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