Caracas, Sep 2 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuela-Cuba Movement of Solidarity and Mutual Friendship (MASM) will redouble its campaign seeking the extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and the release of the five Cubans imprisoned in the US.

Orlando Rincones, a member of the MASM leadership, told Prensa Latina that signatures demanding the extradition of the notorious terrorist to Caracas would be sent to US Attorney General Albert Gonzalez, and those for the liberation of The Five would be sent to Lousie Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Rincones described the hearing held against Posada Carriles at El Paso Service and Processing Center, as a great farce in which the criminal was defended and Venezuela was attacked.

"The hearing has been a set-up, a three-ring circus, a pantomime," emphasized Rincones, also chairman of the Committee for the release of The Five.

Posada Carriles is one of the masterminds of the explosion of a Cubana airliner off the coast of Barbados that left 73 dead in 1976.

He was also involved in bombings against hotels in Havana in the 1990s that killed Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo, and is presently wanted in Venezuela for torturing and murdering left wing activists.

Orlando Rincones compared the case of Posada Carriles with that of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the US.

"International solidarity strongly demands the extradition of Posada Carriles and the prompt release of the five Cuban people," added Rincones.