U.S. Must Decide Fate Of Militant
Associated Press
Thursday, May 10, 2007; Page A10
HOUSTON, May 9 -- Attorneys for an anti-Castro Cuban militant whose immigration fraud case was thrown out said Wednesday they expect he will remain free while U.S. authorities decide whether and to what country they can deport him.
A federal judge threw out the indictment against Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, drawing accusations from Cuba and Venezuela that the White House had manipulated the legal system.
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The ruling did not affect a long-standing deportation order against Posada, a former CIA operative whom those countries want extradited in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner. Posada, 79, has denied involvement in the attack, which killed 73 people.
Venezuelan and Cuban officials reiterated their demands Wednesday that Posada be tried in the United States for the bombing or turned over to Venezuela, where he is a naturalized citizen.
Posada, a fierce opponent of Fidel Castro, was accused of entering the United States illegally and was detained in May 2005. Authorities said he lied about how he entered the country when he sought to become a naturalized U.S. citizen; he was to have gone on trial this week.
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