Cuban minister says US president ordered Posada Carriles freed
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| Published on Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
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By Theresa Bradley and Guillermo Parra-Bernal
CARACAS, USA (Bloomberg): Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Perez Roque has accused the US of paying and protecting alleged anti-Castro terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, whose release from a US prison he said was ordered by President George W. Bush.
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Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
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Posada Carriles, a suspected one-time CIA-operative, is still on US payrolls, Perez Roque told reporters at a televised news conference in Caracas.
A federal court in Texas on Tuesday dropped immigration charges against Posada Carriles, 79, freeing him from house arrest in Miami. A Venezuelan citizen, he is wanted in Cuba and Venezuela on charges related to the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane and 1997 attacks on Cuban tourist resorts.
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