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New Delaying Maneuver in Case of Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles

CUBA, January 27, 2009. Taking the migratory cause against international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to the US Supreme Court is a new delaying maneuver to avoid the extradition of the criminal to either Venezuela or Panama.

On Tuesday, Granma news daily publishes an article in which it quotes Posada’s lawyer in Miami, Arturo V. Hernandez.

“There have been no indictments to my knowledge,” Hernandez said regarding an accusation against Posada for his involvement in a terrorist bomb campaign against Cuban tourist facilities in 1997.

However, he announced that he was appealing Posada’s immigration case to the Supreme Court.

Three days after the Panamanian Government announced last October that it would file an extradition request in the case of Posada Carriles, the Appeals Court of New Orleans ordered that the terrorist again be tried in El Paso, Texas, on immigration fraud charges.

However, the court abstained from ordering the detention of the criminal who is still free in Miami, where he has participated in public activities organized by anti-Cuba terrorist groups.

Since Posada’s arrest in Florida in 2005, Venezuela filed an extradition request and now Jose Pertierra, a lawyer in Washington that represents the Venezuelan government, announced that they would put forward additional evidence linking Posada to the 1976 mid-air bombing of a Cuban airliner off the coast of Barbados that killed all 73 people onboard.

The Panamanian Supreme Court last year overturned a pardon granted to the terrorist by then-president Mireya Moscoso in 2004.
(Cubaminrex- ACN)

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