Saudi Arabia and the US share common interests. They are both getting fat from the oil trade. That's all it is.Suggesting that the Saudi Arabian government knew about 9/11 is just as absurd as suggesting that the British or spanish government knew about their terrorist attacks.

Anti-Castro exile freed

Anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, wanted in Cuba and Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner and awaiting US trial on immigration charges, has been released on bail.

Posada Carriles posted bail totalling $US350,000 to get out of jail in New Mexico.

He has been in detention since May 2005 after entering the United States illegally to seek asylum.

"He has been released on bond and he is on his way to Miami to report to pre-trial services," US Marshal spokesman Gary Brown said in San Antonio, Texas.

The 79-year-old Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative accused in various plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro, has been ordered to live with his wife under house arrest in her Miami home until his trial.

He is scheduled to be tried starting May 11 in El Paso on seven immigration fraud charges accusing him of lying to immigration authorities.

His lawyers said recently they expected that once Posada Carriles was freed on bail, which was granted by US Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, he would immediately be detained again on an immigration-detention order.

But Mr Brown said "that has not happened yet".

"We expect him to appear in court on May 11 for his criminal proceeding as ordered by the court," US Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said in Washington

A spokeswoman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso said she was waiting for a statement from Washington to comment.

Posada Carriles is wanted for trial in Cuba and Venezuela for trial on charges he masterminded a Cuban airliner bombing that killed 73 people.

The two leftist countries have demanded his extradition, but the US has refused, which has prompted charges that the Bush administration is ignoring its own "war on terror".

An ailing Mr Castro, who has not appeared in public since emergency surgery eight months ago, accused the US Government last week of harbouring his nemesis.

"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 US Government to eliminate me physically," Mr Castro wrote.

Posada Carriles was jailed in Panama for a plot to assassinate Mr Castro during an Ibero-American summit in 2000, but was pardoned by outgoing president Mireya Moscoso in 2004.

Cuba also accuses him of plotting a wave of bomb blasts in Havana hotels in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist.

- Reuters

Hi Brian,
How are you ?

Perhaps he is not in guanantamo because he did no crimes against the usa ?

that reasoniong also covers qn 2,

q 3 - warcrimes - he was not at war ? war was not declared.

take care

Hi Brian,

Those in guantanimo are on the side against usa ??

yes, by your account he is a terrorist. Not a terrorist againt usa.

Hi Brian,

I don't think USA should or could apprehend terrorists who wage terrorist events against any country.
They should only be concerned about their own countries security and possibly those who they have close relations with.

If other countries hate usa, then want protection by usa when they tghemselves become targets.
Well, they don't really have a good cause to put forward, do they ? 

This came up on the multiculturalism board with DT:

ex-member DonaldTrump wrote on Jul 10^th, 2007 at 8:01pm:


The way I see it, most of the extremists in the middle east want to take away people's freedom of religion and other personal freedoms. I don't believe that they would see themselves as freedom fighters. Obviously, once you mix in the political stuff they can say they are fighting for freedom from US interference and the politics is a major factor in how they act out their plans, but if you strip the issue down to the core values, they would openly admit to opposing personal freedom, even in a general sense.