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U.S. Frees International Terrorist

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Posted on Apr 24, 2007

By Amy Goodman

A terrorist lives in Miami. He is not in hiding, or part of some sleeper cell. He’s an escaped convict, wanted internationally for blowing up a jetliner. His name is Luis Posada Carriles. As the nation was focused on the Virginia Tech shooting, the Bush administration quietly allowed Posada’s release from a federal immigration detention center.

        It was Oct. 6, 1976, a clear day in the Caribbean. Cubana Airlines Flight 455 departed from Barbados, bound for Cuba.  Posada then ran a private investigative firm in Venezuela. Two of his employees left C-4 plastic explosive on board, disguised as a tube of toothpaste. Shortly after takeoff, the bomb exploded and the plane went down. All 73 people on board were killed.

  Among them were six young Guyanese students on their way to Cuba to study medicine. Now an American citizen, Roseanne Nenninger, sister of Raymond Persaud, one of those students, was 11 years old when her brother was killed: “We had a huge farewell party for our brother and everyone came, the family members, everyone from the local community, all his friends, school friends, so it was a great day for all of us. And the next day, we all went to the airport. He was dressed in his brown suit that was made by a tailor especially for him getting on a plane. It was his first time on an airplane. We watched him walk on the tarmac and head onto the airplane. And it was a great moment for all of us.”

  Within hours, he was dead. He was just one of the victims, one of 73. There was also the entire Cuban Olympic fencing team, young athletes. Each with a name, each with a story. The Cubana Airlines bombing remains to this day the only midair bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere. Posada was tried and convicted in Venezuela of organizing the bombing. He was imprisoned, then escaped in 1985.

  Posada, who will be 80 next year, is a Cuban-born Venezuelan national. He has been a violent opponent of Fidel Castro since the early 1960s. Declassified CIA and FBI documents reveal the extent of Posada’s violent career. Through the decades he hopscotched around Latin America, smuggling arms, running drugs, plotting coups, working with Augusto Pinochet’s dreaded secret police, assisting with Oliver North’s illegal Contra war against Nicaragua—the list goes on. He was a paid CIA “asset,” and also served in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of second lieutenant, at Fort Benning, Ga. He has been implicated in the bombing of hotels in Havana. He was caught and convicted of attempting to assassinate Castro in Panama.

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  Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists’ Government Secrecy Project and the private, nonprofit National Security Archive at George Washington University, the public can read for itself the declassified documents. These documents show what it means for U.S. intelligence agencies to work with “unsavory” characters. Endeavors like the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba of 1961 and the failed Iran-Contra program need operatives, and so the U.S. government hires violent criminals and overlooks their conduct, as long as the policy objectives are being pursued.

  And so it is ironic that on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, April 19, following the mass slaughter on the Virginia Tech campus, the U.S. government quietly released this convicted terrorist and mass murderer.

  We learn the names of the Virginia Tech victims, their accomplishments and their aspirations. Naming the victims, hearing their stories, dignifies their lives, helps us comprehend the magnitude of the loss. So too should we learn about the 73 innocent civilians killed on Cubana Airlines Flight 455.

  Venezuela wants Posada extradited. The U.S. has refused. Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jose Pertierra is representing Venezuela in this case. He says international law is clear: “The law says you extradite or prosecute, but you don’t free him into the streets of Miami.”

  The Bush administration, and disgraced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, should designate Luis Posada Carriles the terrorist that he is. Justice, and the memory of his many victims, demands it.

Denis Moynihan assisted in the research for this article. Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on 500 stations in North America.

  © 2007 Amy Goodman; distributed by King Features Syndicate


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By software developer, August 14 at 7:04 am #
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Hey, that was interesting,

this is why the security check should be tighten in USA

Thanks for writing about it

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By national-security-4-us, May 24, 2007 at 12:23 am #

CONCLUSION PART 3—-

HERE IS HOW MY CIVIL RIGHTS-ARE-HAVE & CONTINUE TO BE
VIOLATED.

1ST AMENDMENT - PUNISHED FOR TELLING THE TRUTH WHILE
TRYING TO COLLECT THE REWARDS FOR MY ACTIONS (CALLS MADE) - VAST POTENTIAL FOR CORRUPTION..

4TH AMENDMENT - ILLEGALLY SEIZING PAPERWORK FROM MY CAR - FROM A FBI,DOJ OR A HIGHER COMMAND TO STOP ME ILLEGALLY-IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE(PAPERS)TO KNOW WHAT WAS
SAID & TO WHOM-LETTERS & FAXES WERE SENT TO THE FBI..

5TH AMENDMENT - SEIZED PROPERTY WITHOUT JUST COMPENSATION-INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION THAT HAS LED TO ON-GOING ARRESTS & INVESTIGATIONS..

6TH AMENDMENT - JUDGE DENIED MY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL
-MOST LIKELY FROM INTIMIDATION & OTHER TACTICS..

8TH AMENDMENT - AS I CONTINUE TRYING TO COLLECT COMPENSATION FOR MY ACTIONS WHICH OUTSMARTS DOJ & FBI
-WHEN THEY LEARN OR HEAR WHAT I AM DOING - SOMEHOW MY
OUTRAGEOUS PROBATION CONDITIONS GET WORSE..

9TH AMENDMENT - A ARRAY OF RIGHTS DENIED - OBVIOUSLY BY COMMAND FROM A HIGHER AUTHORITY..

14TH AMENDMENT - RIGHTS ABRIDGED-DEPRIVED OF PROPERTY
-DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS BEING A NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN..

**WHISTLEBLOWER - IN A NON-CONVENTIONAL WAY-REVEALED TRUTH & POTENTIAL ABUSE-FRAUD & POSSIBLE THEFT OF THE
REWARD MONEY..

**I WROTE DEPUTY DIRECTOR BENJAMIN RENYA-U.S. MARSHAL
SERVICE FOR MY “PROTECTION RIGHTS” - GUARANTEED THRU THE U.S. STATE DEPTS’-“REWARD FOR JUSTICE PROGRAM” - (HE RESIGNED SOON THEREAFTER LIKELY CONFRONTING GONZALES & OR BUSH ON THESE MATTERS)

***PATRIOT ACT VIOLATIONS - ILLEGAL ROVING WIRETAP - THAT NO JUDGE WOULD APPROVE OF-UNLESS SAID IN A WAY TO CONVINCE THE JUDGE OTHERWISE TO APPROVE IT - (IN VIOLATION OF THE F.I.S.A.STATUE)- 3 PHONE NUMBERS ARE
CONSTANTLY MONITORED TO SEE WHO I CALL - LISTEN WHAT I SAY & THEN CALL THEM BACK & INTIMIDATE THOSE THAT I
CALL-INTERCEPTING MY MAIL-ALL MAJOR CRIMINAL FEDERAL OFFENSES..

(TRYING VEHEMENTLY TO STOP ME FROM ACQUIRING A CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY & WILL DO WHATEVER IS POSSIBLE - INCLUDING THE THREAT OF THE DREADED “NSL” LETTER IS ON THE WAY)

ONE CALL TO REP. MARKEY (MASS) OFFICE IN D.C. WAS NOT
CONNECTED DELIBERATELY - CALLED BACK ON ANOTHER LINE & DOCUMENTED THE EVENT WITH THE MEMBER OF HIS STAFF..

THE REPERCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN GLOBAL - THE WRONGS COMMITTED ON ME-SOMEONE WHO MORE THAN LIKELY STOPPED
OUR NEXT 911 - THRU 4 EXPENSIVE HURRICANES - 12/26 TSUNAMI & NOW THE UTTER DESTRUCTION OF A MAJOR CITY/
PORT…...END OF LETTER TO O.P.R.
================================================
THEN AFTER HOLDING F.A.M. FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME - HE SUDDENLY SURFACES IN SOMALIA AFTER HE WAS DUMPED THERE & WAS TARGETED FOR DEATH WITH THE 1/2007
AIRSTRIKES-WHICH WAS REPORTED MISSED & HE GETS AWAY..
WAS THIS DELIBERATE & INTENTIONAL - SO MORE SERIOUS CRIMES WERE COMMITTED TO COVER-UP THE INITIAL CRIMES
OF HIS INITIAL CAPTURE -WHAT A COUNTRY WE HAVE HERE..
SO NOW AMERICA HAS RESORTED TO “CATCH & RELEASE” IN REGARDS TO MOST WANTED TERRORISTS WHO BY THE WAY WAS UNDER A U.S. FEDERAL INDICTMENT THAT WERE NOT SOLELY CAPTURED DUE SPECIFICALLY TO THE ALPHABET AGENCIES..

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By national-security-4-us, May 24, 2007 at 12:21 am #

PART 2 CONTINUED—-

(PLUS A HOST OF OTHER CRIMINAL -N- CIVIL VIOLATIONS)
I can say this w/CERTAINTY,due 2 the way a FBI FT.
PIERCE FEILD OFFICE AGENT spoke 2 me,upon me calling this office in early 6/04-telling of this 5/29/04 incident,only 2 be treated w/ARROGANCE-IGNORANCE & DISRESPECT & ALL FUTURE CALLS WENT 2 MIAMI-FBI..My friend in the COAST GUARD KNEW OF ANY/ALL INFO. PRIOR
2 & 1ST-HAND B-4 ANY CALLS 2 MIAMI-FBI-SINCE ALL VISUALS I HAD OCCURRED ON SAT. OR SUN.
After the 5/29/04 captures of F.A.M.& A.S.,ON 6/5/04 I SPOT 2 MORE-1 I LOST-YET LOCATED AGAIN ON MY RETURN
TRIP & ANOTHER I ACQUIRED ALL RELEVANT VEHICLE INFO.
CALLED MY C.G. FRIEND & TELL HIM SPECIFIC INTEL 2
FOLLOW UP ON,THEN ON 6/6/04 I SPOT WHO I BELIEVE WAS GHAILANI-CALLED MY C.G. FRIEND & SAID I WAS CALLING MIAMI-FBI ON MONDAY W/WHAT I ACQUIRED-ON 6/8/04,I CALL MIAMI-FBI & GAVE ALL RELEVANT INFO & I WAS ASKED
WHY I’M NOT CALLING CLOSER F.O. & I EXPLAINED MYSELF THOROUGHLY..
Unfortunately my carpentry employment took me 2
Orlando,which totally disrupted me from patrolling the area in which those were spotted at..Now I am PUNISHED BEYOND BELIEF 4 SPEAKING THE TRUTH & POSSIBLY EXPOSING POTENTIAL CORRUPTION-THRU DENIAL OF
MY ACTIONS-PAYMENT OF THE REWARDS’ COMPENSATION & POTENTIAL THEFT OF THE SAME..I WAS CIVIL-PATIENT & TRYING 2 ACQUIRE INFO. ONLY 2 BE SPUN IN A CIRCLE WHICH FORCED ME 2 SAFEGUARD THESE MATTERS IN-BY &
THRU CONGRESS.
*ALSO I’M AWARE BOTH INDIVIDUALS (F.A.M.+ A.K.G.)
WERE IN POSS. OF LAPTOPS & ONCE HACKED PROVIDED MANY MORE ARRESTS GLOBALLY-W/PROBABLE REWARD OR BOUNTY IMPLICATIONS-ONLY 2 BE DENIED COMPENSATION ALTOGETHER

HERE IS HOW MY CIVIL RIGHTS-ARE-HAVE & CONTINUE TO BE
VIOLATED.

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By national-security-4-us, May 24, 2007 at 12:18 am #

HERE’S ANOTHER 1 WHO WAS RELEASED EVEN AFTER VARIOUS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WERE TOLD ABOUT HIS CAPTURE & THE
FED.GOVT. LIKELIHOOD 2 COVER IT UP-SINCE NONE OF THE ALPHABET SOUP AGENCIES WERE RESPONSIBLE 4 LOCATING THEM + DENYING 2 PAY THE REWARDS IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION & QUITE POSSIBLY MY VIGILANT INTERVENTION DID STOP A UP-COMING IMMINENT ATTACK THAT WOULD’VE SUSPENDED THE CONSTITUTION AS WELL AS MARTIAL LAW & THE INFLUX OF THE MILITARY/POLICE STATE
GEN.FRANKS SAID RECENTLY-DON’T WORRY FOLKS IT’S STILL
COMING UNLESS THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED TREASON IN REGARDS 2 THIS BELOW AS WELL AS OTHERS MATTER ARE ARRESTED-TRIED-CONVICTED & PUNISHED 4 THEIR ARRAY OF CRIMES INCLUDING “TREASON”-THIS MATTER WAS STOPPED IN
ITS’ TRACKS BECAUSE THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE DID
-KNEW O.P.R. WAS COMING 2 GET THEM.

Dear Office of Professional Responsibility,
                    SENT CERTIFIED 9/13/05
                    SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION

On 5/27/04,from a newspaper I received the 7 photos from the 5/26/04 PRESS CONF. of U.S.A.G. JOHN ASHCROFT & FBI DIR. MUELLER.On 5/29/04,after 300+
miles driven & 9 hrs. later of being on the lookout &
hunting these people down..About 5:30-5:35 PM,I noticed a car tailgating me HAD 2 OF THE 7 PEOPLE IN QUESTION,after POSITIVELY IDENTIFYING these 2 as the 2 in the photos,I forced them 2 pass me,2 acquire the
vehicles’ license plate info..
*(Please refer 2-6/21/04 fax sent 2 Mr.Ashcroft as well as President Bush.)
I called a U.S.C.G. friend,who in turn VERIFIED the captures,as well as family in FED.GOVT.,as well as a Sheriff Dept.Capt.,I’ve assisted in the past,who is
part of a J.T.T.F.-JOINT TERRORIST TASK FORCE TEAM.. My friend in the COAST GUARD told me “THAT FED. OFFICIALS WILL TRY 2 COVER THIS UP,NO 911 CALL,I DID
NOTHING,2 AVOID PAYING THE REWARD OF $25 MILLION-HE FAZUL ABDULLAH MOHAMMED-HAD ON HIS CAPTURE AT THE TIME”-which was changed twice since then-once I was aware MY ACTIONS were going 2 be denied,I CONTACTED CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS 2 SAFEGUARD THIS,who in turn held some hearings I saw openly & of course CLOSED DOOR HEARINGS.
It didn’t take long 4 people 2 realize,from whom these hearings arose from,I contacted NO PRESS OR ATTORNEYS,I believed I followed proper PROTOCOL,in seeking COMPENSATION 4 MY ACTIONS..Now it seems some1
won’t allow the PROPER AUTHORITIES-2 NOMINATE ME 4 THE REWARDS-THRU THE REWARDS 4 JUSTICE PROGRAM..Then on 6/8/04,I called MIAMI-FBI W/INTEL ON 4 VEHICLES,1-
I BELIEVED 2 BE AHMED KHALFAN GHAILANI W/“SPECIFIC DETAILS”,only 2 hear on 7/25/04 he was captured,yet found overseas,A PLOY I BELIEVE 2 DENY PAYING ANOTHER
$25 MILLION REWARD THEN,which was changed twice after
both were CAPTURED 2 up 2-$25 million & now up 2-$5 million.
Congressional hearings arose after the 3 were captured,& in 11/04 my life turned sour,w/a VINDICTIVE VANDETTA 2 SILENCE ME & CRIPPLE ME LEGALLY
& ECONOMICALLY-I was pulled over 4 times in 4 days,4
no apparent reason & let go..I believe DOJ/FBI WERE TRYING 2 FIND A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 2 STOP-ARREST & OR DETAIN ME..Well on 11/21/04,I believe I had a FEDERALLY FABRICATED MOTOR VEHICLE STOP-performed on me using Aerial Surveillance(BREVARD COUNTY)& LEARNING MY AGENDA BY ILLEGALLY WIRETAPPING MY CELL PHONE,LEARNING MY EVERY MOVE..At 7:15 AM on a Sunday going 2 work(11/21/04)-I was stopped w/a FALSE PROBABLE CAUSE PREMISE-VERY IMPORTANT PAPERS-LETTERS-FAXES-PLUS INTELLIGENCE WAS SEIZED OUT OF MY CAR,& SENT 2 THE FBI,AS DEPUTY STATED UNDER OATH IN OPEN COURT.
The evidence in my favor(cars’ camera)was suddenly inoperable,I FIRMLY BELIEVE FBI INFLUENCED MANY OF THESE MATTERS-MULTIPLE CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS-THE COURT PROCEEDINGS & OUTCOME-MY 6 MONTHS LOST OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT-A JUDICIAL QUALIFICATION COMMISSIONS’ DECISION,PROBATION & EVERYTHING ALONG THE WAY.

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By PatrickHenry, May 4, 2007 at 8:00 pm #

War on Terror my ass.

Posada is a criminal and should be tried by a jury of his peers, where the crime was committed.

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By Michael Shaw, May 1, 2007 at 4:44 pm #
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This recent revelation about Luis Posada should come as no surprise since he’s been allowed to wander the countryside with impunity for so many years. Getting locked up over an expired visa is almost laughable when we know full well what a murderous thug he really is. Also how typical for this current administration to mask one tragedy with another one. Very similar to the time the Pentagon and this administration tried to portray Jessica Lynch as a Rambo along with Mark Tillman while investigations into other administrative activities that were not conducive to its own best interests were getting headlines. In the world of magic it’s called misdirection. Nothing up my sleeve! Presto! Here we go again with the two sided coin of the war on terrorism.

What is even more disturbing is my remembrance of a radio talk show after the 9/11 tragedy. It was horrifying! They were discussing whether or not torture is justifiable in an age of terror. There were several shocking responses actually supporting the idea. One call in was particularly chilling. He admitted he was actually a former member of the Contras and “worked” in one of their death squads. I could literally imagine his face lighting up with enthusiasm as he went on saying torture is necessary and we should begin it right away. He even boasted that his death squad killed twice as many of the “opposition” in contrast to his own losses. All I could picture were hundreds, if not thousands of poor, innocent people being rounded up like cattle and placed in the charge of this guy, who like Posada apparently is roaming freely somewhere in the greater bay area. This conversation happened while thugs like Gonzales and Ashcroft were secretly dis-empowering the Geneva Conventions! After reading Amy’s article then remembering this radio discussion, I immediately began to realize this nation, in all likelihood harbors thousands of such “people”. Funny how we take one group of killers and bash them, while simultaneously giving haven to others. Now I don’t know about the rest of you but I don’t like the idea some death squad hit-man living in my neighborhood. A monster is a monster regardless of his political affiliations. They enjoy killing and torture so why on earth are they allowed to simply wander around? Posada is a cold blooded, pathological killer. Would we let the likes of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dalmar, Henrich Himmler, Klaus Barbie or the Hillside Strangler roam freely in our society? If you asked the Bush Administration, the answer is obvious.

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By American Slave, April 29, 2007 at 2:19 pm #

#66915 by Ernest Canning on 4/27 at 11:23 pm
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Regardless, I am a bit disappointed that the content of my remarks did not invoke some type of substantive reaction from Truthdig readers, all of whom I would encourage to read Mark Lane’s “Plausible Denial.”
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Thank you for the information.  I’ve saved it for future reference.  We need to create a database for information like this, so that it remains accessible.

The information doesn’t surprise me, since I already regard the U.S.I. Establishment as a branch of global organized crime.  We already KNOW that the Evil Empire sponsors terrorism, provokes terrorism, and uses terrorism.  Just ask who armed, trained and funded the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s—the $6,000,000,000 operation was, at that time, the biggest op in CIA history.  Or ask who made war in behalf of the KLA in Yugoslavia in 1999.  Or ask why the U.S.I. allowed Zarqawi to shelter in the northern U.S.-fly-zone. 

What is war if not terror?—terror multiplied by a factor of a thousand.  What is “Shock and Awe”, if not terror—terror from the air that is almost DESIGNED to create terror on the ground.

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In its support for terror, the U.S.I. is just following in the footsteps of fascist Israel.  Israel wrote the book on terror in the Middle East.  That murderous state was founded by terrorists and it has been using and provoking terror ever since.

http://www.freeforum101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1472&mforum=times—Cozy relationship between U.S.I. and Zarqawi

http://www.freeforum101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1441&mforum=times—the horrifying history of Israeli terror

http://www.freeforum101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57&mforum=times—U.S.I. repeatedly rejects efforts to extradite bin Laden

http://www.freeforum101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=412&mforum=times—the U.S.I. and fascism

http://www.freeforum101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2930&mforum=times—the U.S.I. and the Nazis

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By cann4ing, April 28, 2007 at 3:23 am #

Thanks Yikes.  I sincerely appreciate your kind words.  Perhaps this post was a bit long, but the tie in between the CIA, the anti-Castro Cubans, the Kennedy assassination and three generations of the Bush family was one that I felt appropriately raised given the links between Luis Posada and Orlando Bosch.  It was not my intent to “dominate” this posting.  Perhaps the Truthdig format of placing the latest posting at the top contributed to the problem, since my post had to be read starting at the bottom, then moving up.  I suspect that eagleeye just glanced at the number of posts and wrongly concluded that I had set forth a number of separate comments rather than a single posting.

Regardless, I am a bit disappointed that the content of my remarks did not invoke some type of substantive reaction from Truthdig readers, all of whom I would encourage to read Mark Lane’s “Plausible Denial.”

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By YIKES, April 28, 2007 at 2:54 am #

I read Truthdig for the intelligence in it’s reports (thank you Amy Goodman) and also for the intelligent posters.  Earnest Canning has not written a post that I have not read.  He is an asset to this site.  I hope he and Amy continue.

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By cann4ing, April 27, 2007 at 9:38 pm #

re comment #66810 by eagleeye.  In was a single posting broken up into multiple parts because its substantive content required my doing so.  Judging from the fact you critiqued the length but had nothing substantive to say about the content, I suspect that you didn’t read it.  Perhaps that is because the sharpness of your eagle’s eye prevents you from focusing on anything beyond a single sentence.

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By eagleeye, April 27, 2007 at 4:46 pm #
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There should be a limit to how many posting Ernest Canning can make. This isn’t his site is it? By dominating it, he’s going to destroy it. People will stop reading and participating.

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By vet240, April 25, 2007 at 4:57 pm #
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This act proves our approval of terrorist acts as long as they are carried out on our behalf.

Why would they free him?

Possibly he has stashed enough records of his direct interaction with our intelligence community to blow them out of the water if he were to meet with a sudden death.

Americans belief in Justice and honor is just another myth.

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By samuel burke, April 25, 2007 at 12:28 pm #
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instead of wasting your time defending Fidels castrates communist, mass murdering regime in cuba, that illegally invaded latin american countries in his attempt to gain more land for boshevism, why dont you look into who brought down world trade center building seven.
noone cared about the millions of oppressed prisoners in cuba then and noone cares about the oppression and crimes in cuba now. what makes you think anyone will care about luis posada carriles attempts to battle fidel castros spies operating in lating american countries.
http://www.physics911.net/gallery/

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By cann4ing, April 25, 2007 at 2:39 am #

CURIOUS LINKS—PART VI

Kennedy’s was not the only assassination on American soil where the name “George Bush” surfaces.  On Sept. 21, 1976 Virgilio Paz & Dionisio Suarez detonated a remote controlled bomb inside a moving car on the streets of Washington D.C., killing Salvador Allende’s former defense minister, Orlando Letelier, and American Ronni Moffit, who drowned in her own blood.  Paz and Suarez were militants connected with the Cuban Nationalist Movement, a small neo-fascist group based in Miami and New Jersey.  Both men would later surface as hit men for the Columbian Drug Mafia.  Suarez would also do a stint with the Contras.

Eight weeks before the assassination, on July 26, 1976, George Landau, the Ambassador to Paraguay, sent CIA Director George H.W. Bush a cable passing on what Landau regarded as an extraordinary request by the Paraguayan government to provide U.S. entry visas to two Chilean intelligence officers with Paraguan passports who claimed that they would be meeting with top CIA officials in Washington.  Bush did not send a reply until August 4, at which time he told Landau that the CIA “wanted nothing to do with the mission.”  But by then Landau had already issued the visas.

Trento places the blame on a suborinate at the CIA, Ted Shackley, whom he claims “sat on the cable.”  While that is certainly possible, it is also possible that Bush chose to delay sending the reply until he knew the DINA agents were on their way, and then formulated the reply’s content in order to erect a plausible denial.  [Referencing Iran/Contra testimony, Mark Lane observed, “Bush routinely keeps a diary of plausible denial, with the same skill employed by a crooked accountant who maintains two sets of corporate books, one of them cooked.”]  This latter possibility is enhanced by the fact that the CIA did nothing to stop the DINA agents, who openly entered the country on Aug. 22, even after the Chilean Embassy notified the CIA of the agents’ arrival in Washington DC.  During the ensuing Justice Department investigation, Bush failed to turn over CIA files and, per Trento, “defended the DINA against accusations that it conducted the assassination.”

So there you have it.  Luis Posada is linked with Orlando Bosch in the downing of the Cubana airliner.  Both are anti-Castro Cubans connected to the Bay of Pigs.  Bosch is linked to the Lettelier assassination, and, if Ms. Lorenz’s sworn testimony is to be believed, to the Kennedy assassination.  Mark Lane’s “Plausible Denial” implicates the CIA in the Kennedy assassination.  George H.W. Bush’s name surfaces in connection with the Bay of Pigs and both the Kennedy and Lettelier assassinations.  He curiously denies any connections to the CIA before 1975.  George H.W. Bush pardons Bosch.  George Bush sees to it that Posada is shielded from extradition to Venezuela.  Bosch and Posada walk the streets of Miami—free men.

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By cann4ing, April 25, 2007 at 2:12 am #

CURIOUS LINKS—PART IV

Trento reveals that after the war, as damning evidence surfaced from captured German bank records, documents made their way into a CIA file where Dulles could shield Bush while having something he could hold over them.  Prescott then “spent most of his post-World War II life cooperating with and taking an active interest in, the most covert CIA intelligence operations.”  This included, following Prescott’s election to the Senate, maneuvering to obtain a position on the Senate Armed Services Committee and, upon Dulle’s urging, a position on the subcommittee which oversaw the CIA.

Prescott set up a job for George H.W. Bush with Henry Neil Malon and Dresser Industries, which Trento assers “had long provided cover for the agency.”  Dulles recruited George H.W., who per Trento, began “doing favors for the CIA” in 1956 after he had moved to Houston and established Zapata-Offshore, which led to his involvement with the anti-Castro Cubans in which the CIA used Zapata-Offshore oil rigs as training areas in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

While Trento’s sources suggest George H.W. Bush’s role was peripheral, circumstantial evidence suggests otherwise.  The names of the two repainted vesses obtained by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty for use in the Bay of Pigs invasion where “Houston” and “Barbara.”  The top secret code name for the invasion was “Operation Zapata.”  On Nov. 29, 1963 J. Edgar Hoover directed a memo to the State Department entitled, “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963,” which revealed that on Nov. 23, 1963 FBI Agent W.T. Forsyth and Capt. William Edwards of the DIA briefed “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” 

The Hoover memo was unearthed by Joseph McBride of “The Nation” magazine in 1988.  When confronted, then VP Bush, through a spokesperson, denied that he had ever worked for the CIA before being appointed its director in 1975.  It was suggested that the memo referred to another “George Bush” who worked at the CIA, but a follow-up by McBride revealed that claim to be dubious at best.

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By cann4ing, April 25, 2007 at 1:53 am #

CURIOUS CONNECTIONS—PART IV

There is a rather curious connection between the Kennedy assassination and Watergate that goes beyond the Lorenz identification of Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis.  The connection was made by none other than H.R. Halderman in “The Ends of Power” (Time Books) (1978) recounted by Lane in “Plausible Denial.”  Seeking the CIA’s protection from the escalating Watergate scandal, Nixon dispatched haldeman to meet with Richard Helms.  When Haldeman met with the usual CIA stonewalling, he told Helms, “the president asked me to tell you this entire affair may be connected to the Bay of Pigs….”  Helms came unglued, gripping the arms of his chair and shouting that there was no connection.  Haldeman, initially perplexed by Helm’s overreaction, observed, “It seems that in all those Nixon references to the Bay of Pigs he was referring to the Kennedy assassination.”  Haldeman went on to note “after Kennedy was killed, the CIA launched a fantastic cover-up” and that the “CIA literally erased any connection between the Kennedy assassination and the CIA.”

In a sense, it may be said that the CIA was the stepchild of Nazi Germanay.  As revealed by Joseph Trento in “Prelude to Terror,” its founder, Alan Dulles, did business with the Nazxis before World War II.  Dulles served in the O.S.S. in Bern, Switzerland.  From 1945 to 1947, preceding the creation of the CIA, Dulles ran his own private and entirely illegal intelligence service, in which, Trento informs us, he “began a massive ex-Nazi recruitment campaign, using a State Department refugee office as a front.”  While the U.S. was publicly securing convictions of the highest level of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, its intelligence agencies were not merely shielding but actually retaining the services of such infamous butchers as Klaus Barbie.

Dulles did not limit his recruitment to former Nazis.  He set his sights on those within the American business community who financed the Nazi rise to power, including one Prescott Bush, the president’s paternal grandfather, whose involvement with the Nazis, Trento asserts, did not reflect ideological affinity.  It “was just money”—hardly a comfort given that at the time he was supporting the Nazi war machine, Prescott’s son, George H.W. Bush was off fighting in the Pacific.  Then again, perhaps it does say something about the relative importance of money in the Bush household.

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By cann4ing, April 25, 2007 at 1:31 am #

CURIOUS CONNECTIONS—PART III

[Correction:  Part I misdated the verdict as 1988.  The correct date was Feb. 6, 1985].  The jury found for Liberty Lobby.  Although jury foreperson Lesilie Armstrong, when approached by the press after the verdict was read, made it clear that the jury was convinced that the CIA had killed President Kennedy and that Hunt was a part of it, a reporter pressed Armstrong about “actual malice” being a part of every libel case.  Armstrong noted, per the judge’s instructions, actual malice was a part of every libel case, but here the jury did not need to reach the issue because they were convinced that the Marchetti article was true.

That evening, a Miami TV station, owned by the Washington Post and Newsweek, reported only on Armstrong’s actual malice being an essential element of a libel case.  Testimony and a verdict which should have been banner headlines, screaming across the front pages of every newspaper in the U.S. was treated by the corporate-owned media as a non-event.

Lane’s “Plausible Denial” presents a thoughtful, fact-filled, persuasive and sustained argument of a likely CIA involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy, an assassination which Lane contends was brought on because Kennedy, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs disaster, had planned to dismantle the CIA following an expected 1964 electoral victory and had issued National security Action memorandum 263 on Oct. 2, 1963 containing a blueprint for a total withdrawal from Vietnam.

Afterwards, per Lane, the CIA engaged in a massive cover-up both within the Warren Commission and a subsequent House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation.  The CIA cover-up was facilitated by its former director, Allen Dulles, who had been fired by President Kennedy only to be appointed as a key member of the Warren Commission.  The FBI’s man inside the Commission was Gerald Ford, who illegally passed on top secret information to Hoover’s assistant, Cartha DeLoach, noting that FBI assistance was needed to bring two dissenting Commission members to the FBI’s view that the shots that killed Kennedy had been fired from the sixth floor windowof the Texas School Book Depository.

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By cann4ing, April 25, 2007 at 1:10 am #

CURIOUS LINKS—PART II

Ms. Lorenz was at one time Fidel Castro’s girlfriend—that is until the former head of Cuba’s Air Force, Frank Fiorini aka Frank Sturgis, convinced her to flee Cuba to the U.S. where she would be recruited into the CIA based on a lie that Castro intended to kill her and her son.

During the trial in Hunt v. Liberty Lobby, after Lane’s blistering cross-examination demolished Hunt’s credibility and his claim to have been in Washington DC on the day Kennedy was assassinated, Lane read Lorenz’s sworn deposition testimony into the record.  Lorenz testified that she, along with Frank Sturgis, Jack Patrick Hemming, Orlando Bosch and Alexander Rorke, Jr. traveled by way of a two-car caravan from Miami to Dallas in November 1963.  One of the two cars was loaded with weapons.  Shortly after Lorenz and Sturgis arrived at a Dallas motel on Nov. 21, 2003, Hunt showed up and handed an envelope filled with cash to Sturgis.  Hunt remained for about 45 minutes.  Within an hour of Hunt’s departure another individual arrived at their hotel room, Jack Ruby.

Lorenz said she had not been provided with the identity of the target of the operation, only knew that it was “big” and that she was to act as a decoy.  Having second thoughts, she persuaded Sturgis to drive her to the airport.  She flew back to Miami.

Hunt’s lawyer, Edward Dunne, concerned with the impact this had on the veracity of Hunt’s assertion he was not in Dallas, did not know when to leave well enough alone.  He specifically asked Lorenz whether she later spoke with Sturgis about the assassination.  Sturgis had.  He told her that she missed “the really big one,” adding:  “We killed the president that day.  You could have been a part of it—you know, part of history.  You should have stayed.  It was safe.  Everything was covered in advance.  No arrests, no real newspaper investigation.  It was all covered, very professional.”

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By cann4ing, April 25, 2007 at 12:53 am #

CURIOUS LINKS—PART I

It is interesting to find Ms. Goodman’s mention of the Bay of Pigs invasion in conjunction with the release of Luis Posada.  The links go far deeper than she or most Americans realize.  As revealed by Peter D. Scott & J. Marshall in “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies & the CIA in Central America” (Univ. Cal. Press)(1991), Posada’s co-conspirator in the downing of the Cubana Airliner, and whose CORU network was linked to the Contra supply operation in the 1980s, openly took credit for that event.  As revealed by Ricardo Alarcon, President of the Cuban National Assembly on Democracy Now!, declassified State Department documents implicate Bosch in the assassination of Orlando Lettelier.  Today, thanks to a pardon from Geo. H.W. Bush, Bosch walks the strees of Miami, a free man.

As revealed by Mark Lane in “Plausible Denial,” Lettelier’s was not the only assassination on American soil to which Bosch has been linked. 

I suspect that very few Americans have ever heard the name Marita Lorenz or understood the significance of a 1988 verdict rendered in a U.S. District Court in the case of Hunt vs. Liberty Lobby—a libel action brought by former Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt against former CIA officer Victor Marchetti and his publisher Liberty Lobby, who had implicated Hunt in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Mr. Lane defended the action not on the basis of the higher standard a public figure must show to demonstate actual malice but on the truth of the content of the Victor Marchetti article.

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By QuyTran, April 24, 2007 at 10:15 pm #

Bush said :“Mission Accomplished”, so free them all.

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