Posada is Free, Will Bush Grant Osama Asylum Too?

May 10 (EIRNS)--On Tuesday a Federal judge in El Paso, Texas dismissed all charges against Bush family terrorist asset Luis Posada Carriles. Posada, a Cuban who is now a Venezuelan national, was charged with immigration fraud after entering the U.S. illegally. These charges were dropped on the grounds that the government's translator had botched the English-Spanish translation of Posada's naturalization interview in 2005.

Posada is accused along with Orlando Bosch of having masterminded the blowing up of Cubana Airlines flight 455 on Oct. 1976. Seventy-three people were killed in the explosion. The bombing was part of Operation Condor, and occurred shortly after the assassination of former Chilean Foreign and Defense Minister Orlando Letelier in Washington, when Bush Sr. was head of the CIA. Both terrorist actions were planned at a June 11, 1976 meeting in Santo Domingo.

Having turned down requests from Venezuela and Cuba that Posada be deported to Venezuela, where he is still wanted on charges of terrorism, the administration of George W. Bush is now expected to grant Posada asylum. According to Peter Kornbluh, in August 2003, the Miami bureau of the FBI decided to close its terrorism case on Posada. Subsequently, five boxes of evidence were removed from the bureau's evidence room and destroyed. One can only wonder whether Osama bin Laden, another Bush family asset from the time of the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, will be similiarly rewarded for services rendered.