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| US drops Cuban militant's charges |
| A US federal judge has dismissed immigration charges against Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, a man convicted of blowing up a Cuban airliner in 1976
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-May-2007
4:18:17 AM |
| The judge accused the US government of "fraud, deceit, and trickery" in its handling of the case.
Posada, 79, was detained in May 2005 after entering the US illegally.
A former CIA employee, he is wanted in Venezuela and Cuba over the downing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in which 73 people died. He denies involvement.
The judge's surprise decision leaves Posada's fate in doubt, though US authorities have ruled out returning him to Cuba or Venezuela.
Cuban anger
"I am free," Posada exclaimed on a Miami-based radio station after the ruling, according to the AFP news agency.
"Thank God, you, all of my brothers, the people in Cuba... for this victory," he said.
Cuba reacted with anger at news that he had been cleared on Tuesday.
This decision is an outrage to the Cuban people and to the nations that lost 73 of its sons and daughters in the heinous 1976 attack that blew up a civilian Cubana de Aviación aircraft off the coast of Barbados," a government statement said.
Havana accused the US of applying double standards in its war on terror because Postada was once employed by the CIA:
"The terrorist's release has been concocted by the White House as compensation for Posada Carriles not to reveal what he knows, not to talk about the countless secrets he keeps on his protracted period as an agent of the US special services," the statement said.
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