Send in “Comrado Perro: El cazador de bonos”?

OUR terrorist (who isn’t just accused of blowing up airliners… he brags about it, not to mention having killed an Italian tourist and other nasty deeds) walks free. Posada Carriles DID enter the U.S. from Mexico illegally (though with the judge throwing out the case, I guess I don’t understand that part of “illegal”), so, in a sense, YES, a terrorist has indeed crossed into Texas from Mexico.

ATTN: Dog the Bounty Hunter fans and defenders. Given that mass murder ranks up there somewhere with serial rape, and the “logic” of the Dog pack is that “justice” required breaking the law, and that bounty hunting IS legal in the U.S., is there any reason Cuban, Venezuelan or Panamanian bounty hunters (Posada Carriles faces serious charges in all three countries, and can be tried in Italy for murder as well) shouldn’t grab the guy, toss him on a plane and take him back?

HOUSTON, May 8 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge threw out all charges against anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, allowing him to go free days before he was set to be tried for immigration fraud.

The surprise decision by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, left uncertain the fate of Posada, who has a long history of violent opposition to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and is viewed by many Castro opponents as a hero.

He is wanted in Cuba and Venezuela, where is accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.

Cardone dismissed the immigration charges on grounds that the U.S. government case was based on statements it got from Posada Carriles, 79, under false pretenses.

He thought he was in an immigration interview that was actually a criminal interrogation, his lawyers said, and the judge agreed.

“The government’s tactics in this case are so grossly shocking and so outrageous as to violate the universal sense of justice,” Cardone wrote.

“This court will not set aside such rights nor overlook government misconduct because defendant is a political hot potato,” she said in the 38-page ruling.

Her decision provoked an angry response from Cuba, which says the Bush administration has coddled Posada Carriles because of his CIA past and his support in the U.S. Cuban exile community.

“If the well-known terrorist Posada Carriles is free without charges it is the full responsibility of the White House,” Dagoberto Rodriguez, Cuba’s top diplomat in Washington, said in a statement.

The Bush administration, he said, “has done all it can to protect the bin Laden of this hemisphere, for fear that he can talk about the connection between the U.S. government and his terrorist activities.”