US Begins Hearing for Cuban Exile Wanted in Venezuela

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An immigration hearing is under way for a Cuban exile and former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative wanted for murder by Venezuela.

The case of Luis Posada Carriles began Monday in El Paso, Texas, where his lawyers are expected to argue against his deportation to Venezuela. Posada Carriles is accused of plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner in which 73 people were killed. He denies involvement.

Lawyers for the 77-year-old man, who was trained by the CIA in the 1960s, argue he could face torture if sent to Venezuela.
 
Venezuelan authorities say there is no evidence that their government would torture Posada Carriles, and say that the United States is wrongfully protecting an aggravated felon.
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Uh-huh. :nope: Uh-uh.
 
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Uh-huh. :nope: Uh-uh.
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If it is wrong to subject terrorist suspects to the possibility of torture why do you think the USA follows the practice of extraordinary rendition?

newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview with the Times, assured the world that “torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.” Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer who was born in Syria, was surprised to learn of Bush’s statement. Two and a half years ago, American officials, suspecting Arar of being a terrorist, apprehended him in New York and sent him back to Syria, where he endured months of brutal interrogation, including torture. When Arar described his experience in a phone interview recently, he invoked an Arabic expression. The pain was so unbearable, he said, that “you forget the milk that you have been fed from the breast of your mother.”…
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A year later, in October, 2003, Arar was released without charges, after the Canadian government took up his cause. Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador in Washington, announced that his country had found no links between Arar and terrorism. Arar, it turned out, had been sent to Syria on orders from the U.S. government, under a secretive program known as “extraordinary rendition.” This program had been devised as a means of extraditing terrorism suspects from one foreign state to another for interrogation and prosecution. Critics contend that the unstated purpose of such renditions is to subject the suspects to aggressive methods of persuasion that are illegal in America—including torture.
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Matt25:
If it is wrong to subject terrorist suspects to the possibility of torture why do you think the USA follows the practice of extraordinary rendition?

newyorker.com/fact/content/?050214fa_fact6
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It makes us look like hypocrites - we only follow the rules when they work for us. Do we really believe that the ends justify the means? :mad:
 
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