Why did the terrorist cross the border?

I can’t vouch for the source (it’s Cuba’s Prensa Latina), but this is interesting. 

The one and only confirmed terrorist to cross the U.S. border from Mexico, Luis Posada Carriles, was recently transferred from the El Paso Immigration Detention Center to the Otero County (New Mexico) jail.  He had a hearing last week on the technical charge,  that he lied to federal immigration agents in a bid to become a naturalized citizen. 

The El Paso Times (which refers to a guy who blew up a civilian airliner — and considered offing the Pope — a “militant”) notes the catch-22 we have with “OUR” terrorist: 

An immigration judge last year ruled that Posada, who is wanted in Venezuela on a charge that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner, could not stay in the U.S. But Judge William L. Abbott also ruled that Posada, who was born in Cuba and is a naturalized Venezuelan citizen, could not be sent to either of those countries.

Several other countries, including Mexico, have refused to allow Posada in.

 Posada is a real bad guy… and if anyone deserves the title of “international terrorist” he does.  But, being part of the anti-Castro underground (heck, he even figures in JFK assassination conspiracy theories), his case just illustrates the whole problem with “anti-terrorist” agreements… one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. 

Like I said, I always question Prensa Latina.  They’re usually right,  but whether this is just your usual aging Cuban exiles (aka OUR terrorists) or something more sinister, I don’t know.  Just keep ’em away from my border!  

Posada Cronies Fumble Attack on Witness
Washington, Jan 18 (Prensa Latina) Accomplices of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles tried to murder a key witness in the judicial process against that criminal, the Miami press reported on Thursday.Gilberto Abascal, an FBI source who confirmed the illegal entrance of Posada Carriles in the US from Mexico, found a bomb in his car.Cronies of Posada planted the device in the Ford van of the witness on Sunday, with the intention of detonating it in the Florida locality of Hialeah, reported the Miami Herald in his Spanish edition.

Abascal denounced the attempt to the Miami-Dade country police, informing he was an FBI witness.

The Bomb Disposal Unit defused the bomb and the FBI Anti Terrorism Special Force said that it would open an investigation, but denied to give details to the press.

In August, 2006, Abascal escaped unharmed from another attack carried out by unidentified people, who opened fire against his van on a road near Hialeah Gardens.

Last Thursday, a federal jury of western district of Texas accused Posada Carriles of seven charges, including one for fraud in the naturalization process and another six for giving false information to the immigration officials.