April 17, 2007
Dear Attorney General Gonzales:
It has come to my courtesy which formed on a new statute by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cordone, Luis Posada Carriles might be expelled on down payment from jail in New Mexico. I adamantly conflict the recover of Posada Carriles and claim which the preference is unsuitable with apply oneself to the nation’s process and beliefs per terrorism. This box is critical for United States family with the neighbors in the hemisphere, and for the dignified credit on the supposed “Global War on Terrorism.”
Posada Carriles is a CIA-trained Cuban outcast concerned in a array of militant incidents, together with the bombing of the Cubana Airlines municipal airliner which killed 73 people on Oct 6, 1976. Evidence in this box has one after another to arise as not long ago as 2005 when the National Security Archive of George Washington University posted a declassified CIA request from 1976 which quotes Posada Carriles as saying, “We have been going to strike a Cuban airplane.”
Additionally, Posada Carriles was a member in a scandalous movement of made at home apprehension which took place here in Washington, D.C., with the bombing which killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and his American join forces with Ronnie Moffitt.
Carter Cornick, a late counterterrorism dilettante for the FBI who worked on the Letelier case, pronounced in an talk with The New York Times which the Cubana Airlines bombing and the Letelier car bombing were programmed at a Jun 1976 assembly in Santo Domingo attended by Posada Carriles. Cornick pronounced which Posada Carriles was concerned “up to his eyeballs” in formulation the attacks. At the time of these bombings Venezuelan military found maps and pick justification in Posada’s Venezuelan chateau which scored similarly him to the militant acts.
Furthermore, by transient Venezuelan justice, Posada Carriles has been means to go on committing militant crimes in new years. In a 1998 talk with The New York Times, Posada Carriles claimed shortcoming for organizing a array of bombings directed at Cuban hotels, dialect stores and pick municipal targets during the summer of 1997. These bombings killed an Italian traveller and harmed eleven pick people.
In Nov 2000, Posada Carriles was arrested in Panama for scheming a explosve to raze in the University of Panama’s Conference Hall, where Fidel Castro was scheduled to broach a speech. Hundreds of people were approaching to attend this event, and had Cuban comprehension not unclosed the tract beforehand, there would have been large municipal casualties. Posada Carriles was convicted in a Panamanian justice usually to be pardoned by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso only days prior to she left bureau in Aug 2004.
On Sep 19, 2001, President Bush strenuously validated the inhabitant process opposite terrorism: “Anybody who harbors a terrorist, encourages terrorism, will be hold accountable. I would strongly urge any republic in the universe to reject terrorism, ban terrorists.” As not long ago as Apr 10, 2007, President Bush reiterated these sentiments when he pronounced “I vowed which if you harbored a militant you’re similarly as guilty as the terrorist. That’s a doctrine. In sequence for this nation to be credible, when the President says something, he contingency meant it. I meant it….”
If Posada Carriles is expelled on bond, there is a in accord with arrogance which he might rush the United States in deterrence of serve charge by this nation and others. To endure such an result is unsuitable with the settled beliefs and process of the United States with apply oneself to the “Global War on Terror” and mars U.S. station between the general community. As such, to yield Posada Carriles with an event to shun charge for acts of apprehension will concede the dignified credit of the United States.
I urge the following pick march of movement by the United States: Return Posada Carriles to Venezuela where former Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel has unquestionably settled which Posada Carriles will be attempted for his crimes. It is a priority for Venezuela, and it should be a priority for the United States to safeguard which Posada Carriles – who transient from a Venezuelan jail – will not be rewarded in his efforts to hedge Venezuelan law. The United States contingency have it transparent which it does not prerogative terrorists.
Thank you for your courtesy to this matter. I demeanour brazen to your prompt response.
Sincerely,
/s/
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congresshttp://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentS…