MESSAGE FROM ICAP TO THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

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April 12, 2007

MESSAGE FROM ICAP TO THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT


Dear friends:

Our people have learned with profound indignation of the decision by
Kathleen Cardone, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, to grant release
on bail to Luis Posada Carriles, the most dangerous terrorist in the
Western Hemisphere, main perpetrator and the mastermind behind the
mid-flight bombing of a Cuban airliner in October 1976 with 73 people
on board, including a delegation of young Cuban athletes.

President Bush said: “Any person, organization or government that
supports, protects, or harbors terrorists is complicit in the murder of
the innocent, and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.”

Bail for this dangerous and unscrupulous murderer and the attempt to
solely try him for immigration crimes against the United States, is the
absolute responsibility of the White House and further proof of the
falseness and hypocrisy of George W. Bush administration as well as
another confirmation of the double standards in its supposed crusade
against terrorism.

The ruling by the federal judge on April 6 coincided with the 10th
Anniversary of the start of a series of attacks on tourist resorts in
Havana, which cost the life of Italian citizen Fabio Di Celmo and
injured many Cubans. Another of Posada Carriles’ criminal actions,
which he himself admitted, with matchless cynicism, to the United
States media.

With respect to his release, international news agencies reported that
the judge’s decision included consenting to Posada Carriles’ residing
in the city of Miami, Florida. The same city that since 1959 has been
home to the most notorious anti-Cuban terrorists and the cradle of
hundreds of genocidal plans against our people. The same city where
five heroic young Cubans, anti-terrorist fighters, today the
protagonists of an immense international solidarity movement for their
freedom, were unjustly subjected to brutal sentences in a trial plagued
with irregularities and held amidst the intimidation and terror of
those same terrorist groups.


For two years, Comrade Fidel Castro has been exposing the attempts by
the United States government to protect the murderer Posada Carriles,
and alerting international public opinion so that this notorious
terrorist does not escape justice, and so that the suffering of the
families of his victims over the loss of their loved ones is not
aggravated by the pain of their murderer’s impunity.

Today, comrade Fidel, in his reflections on the granting of bail to
Posada Carriles, described this action as a brutal response by the
United States government to protect someone who trained in the art of
killing and was faithful to his trainers by killing and sowing pain not
only among Cuban families, but also among Latin American brothers and
sisters, given his complicity in the notorious Operation Condor. Posada
Carriles, as Fidel describes him, is a monster of torture, physical
disappearance and death. For that he should stand trial.

ICAP urges all friends of Cuba throughout the world to create a mass
movement to protest the perpetration of another attack on justice and
human dignity.

We demand justice for the crimes of Posada Carriles not to go
unpunished. This battle is not only for Cuba and its glorious martyrs
in defense of their people, it is for humanity, the happiness of future
generations and the guarantee of a peaceful world.

CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES


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