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Nobel laureates urge US to prosecute anti-Castro militant
10-07-2006

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Four Nobel laureates urged the US government Friday to put anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles on trial for the bombing of a Cuban jet.

The laureates urged Washington to try Posada Carriles, who is being held in the United States on immigration charges, for the 1976 bombing that killed 73 people or extradite him to Venezuela, which wants to prosecute the Venezuelan.

"All the guilty must pay for their crimes and the United States has the opportunity to show the world it is coherent in its battle against terrorism," the Nobel winners said in a statement published in Rebelion.

The text was signed by Nobel Peace Prize winners Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Nobel litterature laureates Nadine Gordimer and Jose Saramago, and US intellectual Noam Chomsky and French university professor Salim Lamrani.

A US judge last month recommended that Posada Carriles be freed because no country, other than Cuba and Venezuela, was found to accept him.

The US Justice Department, however, opposed his release in court papers filed Thursday. He has been in a Texas jail since May 2005 for entering the United States illegally.

Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the bombing.