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...suspects are considered equal. That much was clear on the same day that the nation solemnly recalled the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when a federal magistrate recommended freeing a man being held on immigration charges who is also awaiting retrial in Venezuela for the bombing of a Cuban airliner 30 years ago that resulted in the death of all aboard, including the Cuban national fencing team...
...Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles has been fighting for his release since May 17, 2005, when Department of Homeland Security officials arrested him in Miami for entering the country without having a visa or passing through passport control at the border. But in a move that may come back to haunt the U.S. government Posada, despite his suspected terrorist past, was held on immigration violations, not terror-related charges...
...self-styled freedom fighter, has been involved in anti-Castro activities for decades. In the early 1960s, he worked with the CIA in an attempt to overthrow Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion and in 2000 was arrested in Panama in an alleged plot to assassinate the Cuban president, according to court documents filed in the Fifth District Court in El Paso, where he is being held in detention. The charges in the assassination attempt were later dropped, but Posada was charged with national security and counterfeiting crimes and received a sentence of eight years in prison. The Panamanian...
...they have been kept: a list of techniques with odd names like "water boarding" to match up with grainy head shots above long Arabic names. But we learned from President Bush last week that the CIA's 14 high-value detainees have been moved to a U.S. base, the Cuban outpost of Guantánamo Bay. And because they will face some kind of trial, the issue of torture moves closer to our political shore. When you look at their faces and learn more about them--which you will in the coming months--it will be for you to decide...
...have never been so outraged as when I read this profile. I am a child of a Cuban emigrant whose life was destroyed by the revolution. Another family member was tortured under orders from Raúl for protesting the actions of the Communist Party for 10 years. Mascareñas should have spoken with people who have experienced the actions of Fidel and Raúl; she needs to get the whole picture...