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nimue77

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Terrorism is not a one-group thing. Remember Ireland? That's just one example.
 
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It depends who's being terroristed by whom.

Heres a terrorist who is currently seeking asylum in the USA.
Sometimes America supports and harbours terrorists, just like those places in the middle east.

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Luis Posada Carriles was accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA -->Declassified US government documents show that a man suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane worked for the CIA.

Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban-born Venezuelan and anti-Castro dissident, was an agent and informer.

The papers also reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that Mr Posada was one of those behind the 1976 bombing that killed 73 people.

Mr Posada, who denies any involvement, is said to be seeking asylum in the US.

His lawyer says his client, thought to be in hiding in the Miami area, deserves US protection because of his long years of service to the country.

US officials say they have no evidence that Mr Posada is in the country, and add that they would deal with an asylum application from him as they would any other.

No conviction

The documents, released by George Washington University's National Security Archive, show that Mr Posada, now in his 70s, was on the CIA payroll from the 1960s until mid-1976.

One FBI report quoted a confidential source as saying that Mr Posada was one of several people who met at least twice at a hotel in Caracas, allegedly to discuss bombing a Cubana airlines plane.

The report recommended that no action be taken on the information, as it would compromise its source.

Mr Posada was arrested in Venezuela after the bombing, but was not convicted before he escaped from prison.

The US documents show that he later went to central America, where he joined the covert US operation, led by Lt Col Oliver North, to rearm the anti-communist Contra guerrillas.

Diplomatic row

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

Five years ago, he was arrested in Panama and accused of plotting to kill President Fidel Castro during a summit there.

He was convicted of a lesser charge, but was later pardoned and freed by the outgoing Panamanian president - causing Cuba to break off diplomatic relations.

His alleged reappearance in Miami has provoked the wrath of the Cuban government, which accuses Washington of harbouring an alleged terrorist. Venezuela - a close ally of Cuba - says it is planning to seek his extradition. If Mr Posada has applied for asylum, his case will present the Bush administration a dilemma, says the BBC's Paul Keller in Miami. The US would have to reconcile its traditional sympathy for the politically influential Cuban exiles in Miami and its firm stand against suspected terrorists in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, our correspondent says.<!-- E BO -->

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Luis Posada Carriles is seeking political asylum in the US

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA -->A US immigration judge has denied a request for bail from the militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles.

The former CIA operative was arrested in May on charges that he had entered the US illegally two months earlier.

The ruling means Mr Posada Carriles will remain at a detention centre in Texas until his case is heard. He had asked to transfer the case to Florida.

The 77-year-old is wanted by Venezuela over a 1976 plane bombing which killed 73 people. He denies involvement.

Twice acquitted

Mr Posada Carriles, who is seeking political asylum in the US, had asked to be released on bail while he waits for the claim to be decided.

The court in El Paso, Texas, also heard he wanted the case against him to be transferred to Florida so he could be closer to his lawyer and friends.

Judge William Abbott refused bail on the grounds that Mr Posada Carriles had accusations related to terrorism pending against him.

He also asked for legal briefs on Mr Posada Carriles' alleged role in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion - a US-backed, failed attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Venezuela has formally requested the extradition of Mr Posada Carriles, whom it accuses of planning the bombing of the Cubana Airlines plane on a flight from Caracas to Havana.

A naturalised Venezuelan, he was twice acquitted by Venezuelan courts of plotting to bomb the plane. He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985 while awaiting a trial on appeal.

Mr Posada Carriles is also wanted by Cuba for a series of bombings of hotels in Havana in 1997.

The US says it will not extradite people to any country which could then hand them over to Cuba.



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how bout Timothy McVeigh?
 
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red brigade, weathermen, kkk, ira, baader-meinhof
just to name a few
 
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The American terrorists were so ferocious that even the British Army was unable to subdue them.

Of course these American terrorists were fighting with home ground advantage ... a lesson that politicians seem incapable of comprehending.
 

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I was going to mention McVeigh but doc got there first...

Commenting on Woody's reply.......I always thought it was kinda comical that redcoats stood in neat lines trying to shoot someone standing behind an oak tree with a 3 foot trunk...ok, actually I thought it was really stupid...

Seems they beat the redcoats by fighting smart and then carried the redcoat's stupidity into the civil war for some reason.
 

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