"'Bomb-plot' Cuban seeks US asylum"

Beeb:

A Cuban exile accused by President Fidel Castro of plotting to kill him has applied for asylum in the US, his lawyer has said.

Luis Posada Carriles is also wanted in Venezuela over the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, in which 73 people were killed.

Mr Carriles has been in hiding for months and managed to cross illegally into the US from Mexico some weeks ago.

On Tuesday, Mr Castro demanded to know how he had breached US border security...

On Tuesday, Mr Carriles' lawyer said his client's asylum application would be based partly on his claim that he worked "directly and indirectly" for the CIA for years, and had thus helped US interests.

Mr Carriles once boasted of being responsible for a series of bomb attacks of Havana tourist spots in the 1990s...

I vote "no", despite those who would agree.

NPR has a report here, The WSWS weighs in with "Bush silent as top terrorist seeks US asylum", and Cuba's Prensa Latina offers us "Fidel Castro Dares US to Justify Posada Carriles Asylum".

And, Rusty Shackleford (the real one) directs our attention to "Posada Carriles' US asylum application re-opens unsolved JFK assassination case". That ties everything - including the Bush family - together.

After reading that last link I immediately cleared my browser caches and prepared to deny ever having read it. In case you too would prefer to think very happy thoughts, here are some Gloria Estefan pictures: in a sexy hat, with the Muppets, in a pool, with the Carmen look, flipping her hair back, and reclining.

I never read the Kennedy link, I swear.

Politics · Tue, 04/19/2005 - 15:35 · Importance: 1