Posada could give up asylum bid
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11668567.htm
By ALFONSO CHARDY And OSCAR CORRAL
Herald staff writers
Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban exile militant Venezuela wants extradited for allegedly blowing up a Cuban plane in 1976, met with reporters in South Florida Tuesday and said he was reconsidering his application for asylum in the United States.
''Regarding my application for political asylum in the United States, I want to clarify that the Cuban dictator wishes to create an international situation to damage the image of the United States,'' Posada told the media, sitting at a long table in the middle of an empty warehouse near Hialeah.
As a result of this concern, Posada said, he is willing to give up his asylum application. ''If my petition for political asylum were to cause a problem to the government of the United States, I am ready to reconsider my petition,'' Posada said, sugesting he would return to life in the underground.
The warehouse media event was Posada's second encounter with South Florida reporters since secretly arriving in Miami in late March after sneaking into the country without a visa -- ostensibly through the Texas border.
Posada's first encounter with the media here was a week ago Wednesday with two Herald reporters at a Brickell Key high-rise condominium where denied any role in the blowing up of the Cuban plane but would not deny a role in a string of bombings in Cuban tourist sites in 1997. In that interview, Posada also provided some details about his voyage to the United States, saying he crossed the border at Brownsville, Tex., to catch a Greyhound bus to Miami in Houston.
At Tuesday's media event, Posada also said he would be willing to submit himself to a trial by an international court over allegations against him over the Cuban plane.
But Posada set conditions: Cuba must agree to surrender for trial the pilots of the MiG warplanes that shot down two civilian aircraft in 1976 killing four Cuban exiles and the crew of a Cuban tugboat that rammed and sank a tugboat of refugees fleeing the island killing about 40 men, women and children in 1994.
In an attempt to clear his name from the airliner bombing, Posada also submitted to a lie detector test in Miami recently and passed it. The test was performed by Thomas W.K. Mote, a forensic polygraph examiner
''It is the professional opinion of this examiner that Mr. Luis Posada Carriles was not deceptive to the issues in this matter that he was allegedly involved in the bombing of Cuban flight 455,'' Mote wrote in his final report.
Posada knows Castro will use this asylum bid to try his best to tarnish the US image and he is ready to stop his bid.The man is smart I'm sure he'll figure out something to do he is protected and loved by far too many exiles.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11668567.htm
By ALFONSO CHARDY And OSCAR CORRAL
Herald staff writers
Luis Posada Carriles, the Cuban exile militant Venezuela wants extradited for allegedly blowing up a Cuban plane in 1976, met with reporters in South Florida Tuesday and said he was reconsidering his application for asylum in the United States.
''Regarding my application for political asylum in the United States, I want to clarify that the Cuban dictator wishes to create an international situation to damage the image of the United States,'' Posada told the media, sitting at a long table in the middle of an empty warehouse near Hialeah.
As a result of this concern, Posada said, he is willing to give up his asylum application. ''If my petition for political asylum were to cause a problem to the government of the United States, I am ready to reconsider my petition,'' Posada said, sugesting he would return to life in the underground.
The warehouse media event was Posada's second encounter with South Florida reporters since secretly arriving in Miami in late March after sneaking into the country without a visa -- ostensibly through the Texas border.
Posada's first encounter with the media here was a week ago Wednesday with two Herald reporters at a Brickell Key high-rise condominium where denied any role in the blowing up of the Cuban plane but would not deny a role in a string of bombings in Cuban tourist sites in 1997. In that interview, Posada also provided some details about his voyage to the United States, saying he crossed the border at Brownsville, Tex., to catch a Greyhound bus to Miami in Houston.
At Tuesday's media event, Posada also said he would be willing to submit himself to a trial by an international court over allegations against him over the Cuban plane.
But Posada set conditions: Cuba must agree to surrender for trial the pilots of the MiG warplanes that shot down two civilian aircraft in 1976 killing four Cuban exiles and the crew of a Cuban tugboat that rammed and sank a tugboat of refugees fleeing the island killing about 40 men, women and children in 1994.
In an attempt to clear his name from the airliner bombing, Posada also submitted to a lie detector test in Miami recently and passed it. The test was performed by Thomas W.K. Mote, a forensic polygraph examiner
''It is the professional opinion of this examiner that Mr. Luis Posada Carriles was not deceptive to the issues in this matter that he was allegedly involved in the bombing of Cuban flight 455,'' Mote wrote in his final report.
Posada knows Castro will use this asylum bid to try his best to tarnish the US image and he is ready to stop his bid.The man is smart I'm sure he'll figure out something to do he is protected and loved by far too many exiles.
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