THE TERRORIST STATE PROTECTS A TERRORIST!

 
THE   TERRORIST  STATE   PROTECTS   A   TERRORIST!
 
 
 
On 6 April 2007, a terrible injustice occurred in the United States of
America. A Federal Judge in El Paso Texas granted freedom on bail to one
of the world's most notorious terrorists --- a man by the name of Luis
Posada Carriles.
 
Carriles is being charged with illegal entry into the US in 2005 as a way
of camouflaging his larger crimes of murder and terrorism carried out at
the behest of US intelligence and its clandestine networks against the
Cuban Revolution and other progressive movements in Latin America.
Carriles was the mastermind behind the mid-flight bombing of a Cuban
airliner in October 1976 which killed 73 persons, including students,
young Cuban athletes and foreigners. It was this terrorist who also
triggered off a series of terrorist attacks upon tourist resorts in Cuba
in 1997 which led to the death of an Italian tourist and injured many
Cubans. He was responsible, it is alleged, for some of the countless
attempts by US agents to assassinate the President of the Cuban Republic,
Fidel Castro himself.
 
These acts of terrorism should be viewed in the larger context of various
other plots hatched by the US to crush the Cuban struggle to preserve its
independence and integrity. We know that terrorists in the pay of the US
have tried to spread viruses, bacteria and fungi, some produced in US
laboratories, in Cuban plantations and among animals and even human
beings!  Some of these terrorists are linked to Miami, Florida in the US
with its colony of Cuban exiles who with the collaboration of the US
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have established well financed centres
for the subversion of the Cuban Revolution. There was also the crude and
clumsy 1961 US sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba which killed 176
Cubans.
 
While US agents and collaborators plan terrorist acts against the Cuban
people with impunity, any attempt by patriotic Cubans to expose US
terrorism is punished heavily. Thus, the fate of the famous 'Cuban
Five'.  These are Cubans who were arrested in Miami in September 1998 on
the charge that they constituted a threat to US national security when in
fact they were merely trying to uncover dangerous and violent activities
being planned by extreme right wing terrorist groups in Miami against
Cuba.  Today, these five Cuban men languish in US jails.
 
It is not just Cuba that terrorists like Carriles target. Carriles was
involved  in Operation Condor, a vicious  campaign of state terrorism and
intelligence operations organized by a number of right-wing dictatorships
in Latin America from the fifties to the eighties with the total support
of the US which resulted in the death and disappearance of  tens of
thousands of  opponents and critics of those governments. It is alleged
that Carriles was also part of the dirty war against the people of
Nicaragua after the Left oriented Sandinistas came to power in that
country in 1979.
 
By shielding Carriles and his crimes from judicial scrutiny through a
crafty legal manoeuvre, the US has told the world once again that it
protects terrorism as long as the terrorist is on their side. For the
people of the world, the Carriles episode is confirmation of what they
have known all along : that the US has no qualms about resorting to the
most brutal forms of terrorism if it serves its interests. This is why a
lot of people now realize that the US 'War on Terror' only serves its own
nefarious agenda of global hegemony.        
 
 
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar,
President,
International Movement for a Just World (JUST).
 
 
15 April 2007. 
 

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