Castro accuses Bush of protecting accused bomber

This is not just an accusation, but it is the truth. This nation has a history of protecting the real terrorist and arresting the prevaricators. This man Luis Posada worked the CIA and was a terrorist blowing up a plane in Venezuela and is sitting in Texas relaxing just a Noriega was for many years. Of course they don't want the media or these people to speak, they would spill to much dirt about the CIA and why JFK wanted to bring down the CIA.

Reuters
Wednesday April 11, 2007

Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Tuesday of protecting a Cuban exile wanted by Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban jetliner 30 years ago.

In his third newspaper column in two weeks, Castro said a decision by a U.S. judge that militant exile and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles should be freed on bail could only have resulted from instructions by the White House.

Posada Carriles, 79, is due to go on trial May 11 on immigration fraud charges. A judge in El Paso, Texas, decided last week he should be freed on bail until his trial. The Cuban-born Venezuelan national has remained behind bars at the request of federal prosecutors.

Cuba has criticized Washington for having a double standard in its war on terror by harboring Posada Carriles because of his past connections with U.S. intelligence services.

"It was President Bush himself that has ignored the criminal and terrorist character of the accused. He was protected by charging him only with breaking immigration laws," Castro wrote in the column issued by Cuban officials by e-mail.

Castro railed at U.S. authorities for deciding to free "the monster" before his trial.

"Not a single word has been said about his countless victims, his bomb attacks on tourist facilities in recent years or dozens of his plots financed by the U.S. government to eliminate me physically," Castro wrote.

The 80-year-old Cuban leader has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency stomach surgery that forced him to hand over power to his brother, Raul Castro, eight months ago.

From his sickbed, Castro has taken up his longtime ideological war against the United States by writing editorials in the Communist Party newspaper under the header "Reflections of the Commander in Chief."

The first two denounced Bush's plans to use food crops for biofuels as "genocidal" because they will cause hunger among the world's poor.

Posada Carriles, who was trained by the CIA in explosives before the failed 1962 Bay of Pigs invasion against Castro, is wanted in Venezuela on charges he planned the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. He was detained in Caracas in 1976, but fled prison in 1985 disguised as a priest.

Posada Carriles is also accused of tourist bombings in Havana in 1997. He was jailed in Panama for a plot to assassinate Castro during an Ibero-American summit in 2000, but was pardoned by outgoing President Mireya Moscoso.

Posada Carriles has been in U.S. custody in El Paso since May 2005 after entering the country illegally to seek asylum.

He has been a political problem for the Bush administration because his past activities are viewed as terrorism by his opponents, but he is a hero to many in the politically powerful Cuban exile community in the United States.

The government tried to find another country to take Posada Carriles, but none would accept him. He was indicted in January on seven counts of immigration fraud.