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Article: Questions raised by ease of Cuban's entry into U.S.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 30, 2005
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Byline: Hugh Dellios
MEXICO CITY _ The alleged terrorist said he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Texas as many other illegal immigrants do _ in the car of a smuggler. Then he hopped a bus to Miami.
He was not an al-Qaida operative, bent on harming Americans. He was Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban anti-Castro militant now in custody in Texas for immigration violations and wanted in Venezuela for allegedly blowing up a Cuban civilian plane and killing 73 passengers in 1976.
While a judge's ruling Monday that the United States will not extradite Posada to Venezuela has fanned criticism about the U.S. commitment to battling terrorism, the case ...