UNITED STATES: Judge frees terrorist on 9/11

In a stroke of irony, US federal magistrate Norbert Garney issued a ruling on September 11 recommending that international terrorist, and former CIA operative, Luis Posada Carriles should be released from a Texan immigration detention centre. Posada was involved in the 1973 bombing of a Cuban plane, which killed more than 70 people, and has been implicated in a number of other terrorist attacks, including hotel bombings. Venezuela has tried to extradite Posadas from the US in connection with the airline bombing and a prison break-out, but Garney ruled that Posada shouldn't be deported because he would face the threat of torture in Venezuela or Cuba, a charge that governments of the two countries consider absurd.

From GLW issue 684