[NYTr] Rep Bll Delahunt to Hold Hearing on Case of Luis Posada Carriles 11/15/07
 
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:35:01 -0600 (CST)

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Congressman Bill Delahunt
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ma10_delahunt/posada11.html

For Immediate Release - November 13, 2007

Further Information:
Mark Forest - 202-225-3111/774-487-2534

DELAHUNT TO EXAMINE CASE OF LUIS POSADA CARRILES

Cuban Exile Called the bOsama Bin Laden of 
the Western Hemisphereb Walks Free in Miami

WASHINGTON, DC b Congressman Bill Delahunt announced that the Foreign
Affairs panel that he chairs, the Subcommittee on International
Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, will hold a hearing on
Thursday, November 15, on the case of Luis Posada Carriles, an alleged
Cuban exile terrorist currently living in Miami, FL. 

bItbs important to examine the treatment he has received,b said
Delahunt, bbecause it goes to the heart of American credibility among
the family of nations.b

The hearing, entitled bbDiplomatic Assurancesb and Torture: A Case
Study into Why Some are Accepted and Others Rejected,b will seek clues
from Posadabs background as to why he b unlike other accused
terrorists, many of whom have been kidnapped and sent to be tortured in
other countries by the Bush Administration b has so far been able to
escape an accounting for his alleged crimes.  These include one of the
most notorious terrorist attacks in the Western Hemisphere, the midair
bombing of a civilian airliner in 1976 that resulted in the deaths of
73 civilians.

Posada has been allowed to live comfortably in the United States,
despite his long history of violence or the fact that he is a fugitive
from justice in Venezuela and has been linked to terrorist plots in
that country, Cuba, Panama, and elsewhere. 

bWhat is it about Posada that has spared him the treatment that other
alleged terrorists have received?b asked Delahunt.  bIbm not advocating
that he be sent to be tortured.  But why have so many others, some of
whom are later found to be innocent, rendered on much flimsier evidence
to a living hell, while Posada walks free?  This stands is stark
contrast to the case of Maher Ahar, which this Subcommittee examined
several weeks ago. Thatbs what our hearing will look into.b

The hearing will take place at 3:00 PM on November 15, 2007, in room
2237 of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. 

Witnesses will include Peter Kornbluh of the National Security
Archives; Ann Louise Bardach, an author who has tracked Posadabs
activities for over a decade; Roseanne Nenninger, the sister of one of
the victims in the 1976 bombing; and Arturo Hernandez, Posadabs
attorney.

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