does the name posada ring any bells?

if you were around say, oh 30 years ago, you may remember this character from iran/contra. the crack shippin son of a bitch made billions on Americans' addiction, and was a bushite favorite from early on. that alone should be enough to indict the cocksucker on any number of treasonous crimes. and once again, he's able to make the president of the united states extend the law to protect this terrorist from ever seeing justice in venezuela. a real chapter in how fucked up American politics got during the immediate post-reagan era.

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The Bush administration on Friday turned down the Venezuelan government's arrest request for Luis Posada Carriles, the anti-communist militant charged in that country in connection with the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976.

A State Department official said the decision, made by the departments of Justice and State, was conveyed through a diplomatic note sent Friday afternoon to the Venezuelan embassy in Washington.

"The provisional arrest request was not legally sufficient for the issuance of an arrest warrant in the United States," said the State Department official, who did not wish to be identified.

The official questioned Venezuela's motives for filing the request, saying that the government in Caracas has filed such requests with the United States before and knows how the system works.

Recently declassified U.S. government documents show that Posada was on the CIA payroll in the 1960s.

Posada, 77, is seeking asylum in the United States. He was arrested last week by immigration officials in Miami and charged with illegal entry. Posada faces a hearing on the charges June 13.

A Department of Homeland Security official who requested anonymity said the response to Venezuela's extradition request did not alter the government's case against Posada - namely that he entered the United States illegally - and said he will be held without bond until a June 13 arraignment in El Paso, Texas.

Prosecutors are expected to pursue a deportation order against the Cuban militant, who in turn has filed an asylum claim to try to block his removal.

While Cuba and Venezuela are off the table, immigration courts have the option of deporting Posada to any other country that agrees to take him, as long as he would be safe there.

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chavez wants this guy, and by all accounts, should get him without question. notice how the bushites aren't all over the 24/7 news channels patting themselves on the back for 'catching a terrorist'. shameful isn't it.