Panama, July 3, 2008. A Panamanian team of lawyers will find the way for justice to be served to Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his three accomplices, free in United States but guilty here of dangerous crimes. Attorneys will announce today at a national news conference their strategy for the four criminals to fulfil their sentences in Panama of eight years imprisonment. The Supreme Court of Justice termed unconstitutional three days ago pardons granted in August 2004 by the then President Mireya Moscoso, which benefited 183 prisoners, among them Posada Carriles and his accomplices. "We are going to ask for immediate extradition of the Cuban-origin terrorists who came to subvert order in our country," Julio Berrios, one of the lawyers of the case, said. Berrios explained that the request is based on the Extradition Treaty inked by the two countries in 1904, which is in force and rules bilateral relations in that matter. He noted that other legal actions will be carried out so that Posada Carriles and his followers give an explanation to the Panamanian justice, frustrated by President Moscoso's irregular pardon. Posada Carriles and his accomplices were detained in the Panamanian capital in November 2000, during the 10th Ibero-American Summit, where they conspired to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a public appearance. After the pardon, they were transferred on August 26, 2004 in a private plane to the US city of Miami, where the main bases of anti-Cuban terrorist groups are located.(Cubaminrex- PL) |