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Families of the victims of Cubana Airline flight 455 in which 73 passengers, among them 11 Guyanese,wholesale jerseys china, were killed in 1976,wholesale jerseys, should be compensated, according to the President of Guyana Solidarity Movement with Cuba, Halim KhanHe said that Luis Pasoda Carriles who is the alleged mastermind lives in Miami. “Today, Posada, 85, walks the streets of Miami, a living contradiction in America’s war on terrorism.Khan said that the Guyana Government should seek Posada’s extradition to Guyana just as Cuba and Venezuela did and try him in the courts for killing the 11 Guyanese.The Guyanese killed were Jacqueline Williams,cheap nfl jerseys, Rawle Thomas, Ann Nelson, Sabrina Harripaul, Rita Thomas, Margaret Bradshaw, Violet Thomas, Raymond Persaud,wholeslae cheap nfl jerseys china, Harold Norton, Gordon Sobha and Seshnarine Kumar.“Guyanese lives are just as important as other human beings. We need justice. We need compensation for the victims’ families from those countries that harbor them.”He made reference to the governments of the United States,cheap nfl jerseys china, Britain and Libya who had pledged cooperation to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, exactly 25 years ago over Lockerbie, Scotland.“So those responsible for this most brutal act of terrorism brought to justice, and to understand why it was committed…it is essential to fully support an investigation team to enable them to complete their enquiries successfully and bring justice to these killings.”In the spring of 1998, Cuban agents uncovered a plot to blow up an airplane filled with beach-bound tourists from Europe and Latin America.Castro enlisted his friend, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez,cheap nfl jerseys online, to carry a secret message about the plot to President Bill Clinton. The White House took the threat seriously enough that the Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines.In June of that year, FBI agents flew to Havana to meet with their Cuban counterparts. During three days in a safe house,jerseys nfl wholesale, the Cubans provided the FBI with evidence their agents had gathered on various plots, including the planned airplane attack and an ongoing campaign of bombings at Havana hotels that had taken the life of an Italian Canadian businessman.But the FBI never arrested anyone in connection with the airplane plot or the hotel attacks – even after exile militant Luis Posada Carriles bragged about his role in the Havana bombings to the New York Times in July 1998.Instead, on September 12,cheap jerseys nfl wholesale, 1998, a heavily armed FBI SWAT team arrested the members of the Cuban intelligence network in Miami.In 2000, Posada was arrested in Panama in connection with a plot to assassinate Castro; he was convicted and served four years before receiving a still-controversial pardon. That pardon was revoked in 2008.The closest the U.S. Government has come to prosecuting Posada was in 2009, when the Obama administration charged him – not for his role in the Havana bombings but for lying about his role on an immigration form. He was acquitted. |
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