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10512 Hon. Dennis J. Kucinich Hon. Steven R. Rothman 10512 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 19, 2005 at the birth of a new century. Sitting in the about his crimes. In a 1998 interview with the try.’’ If this policy is applied in the transfer- hall between classes, my friends and I dis- New York Times, he claimed responsibility ring of prisoners to Syria, Morocco, Egypt cuss the faults of our school’s administra- for organizing a series of bombings aimed at and Jordan, all countries whose abusive tion, the right to same-sex marriage, the jus- Cuban hotels, department stores and other practices have been documented and con- tification for the Iraq War. We feel it is our civilian targets during the summer of 1997. demned by the State Department’s annual right to know and evaluate our sur- The bombings killed an Italian tourist and human rights report, then the United States roundings, to speak and have our ideas re- injured 11 other human beings. must surely apply this policy to Venezuela, a sponded to. Perhaps realizing he had not helped him- nation with a Constitution that specifically I believe that freedom in the 21st century self or his cause, Posada later retracted his prohibits torture and provides for the pros- means the liberty of individuals, regardless statements. ecution of officials who instigate or tolerate of age, race, gender, or class, to express In November 2000, Posada was arrested in torture. themselves in their own words, and to use Panama for preparing a bomb to explode in Many innocent victims who happened to be those words to shape history. We celebrate the University of Panama’s Conference Hall, Cuban died at the hands of Posada, in a it, and yet we never stop fighting for it. I am where Fidel Castro was going to deliver a crime similar to that which killed innocent Korean-American, I am young, and I am free. speech. Hundreds of people were expected to American victims on September 11, 2001. It is I speak—not always articulate, not often attend this event, and had Cuban intel- not only inconceivable to imagine the possi- right, but always in my own words. I speak, ligence not uncovered the plot beforehand, bility of granting this terrorist asylum, but and I listen. there would have been massive civilian cas- also of denying justice to all of the victims f ualties. Posada was convicted in a Panama- of his crimes. Such actions would go against nian court only to be pardoned by Panama- everything that your Administration has LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH RE- nian President Mireya Moscoso just days be- claimed to stand for in the ‘‘War on Ter- GARDING LUIS POSADA fore she left office in August 2004. rorism.’’ It is our hope that for the sake of CARRILES Moscoso’s successor, Martin Torrijos, criti- all the families of terror casualties in the cized the pardon, aptly noting, ‘‘For me, United States and around the world that there are not two classes of terrorism, one Luis Posada Carriles is not granted asylum HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH that is condemned and another that is par- in the United States, and that he is right- OF OHIO doned.’’ fully extradited to Venezuela where he will IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Similarly, in 1989, when the Justice De- finally face justice. partment was considering the asylum re- Sincerely, Wednesday, May 18, 2005 quest of Posada’s fellow Miami militant, and Dennis J. Kucinich, Rau´ l M. Grijalva, Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, today 20 Rep- suspected co-conspirator in the Cubana Jose´ E. Serrano, Barbara Lee, Cynthia resentatives sent to President Bush the fol- bombing, Orlando Bosch, then-Associate U.S. McKinney, Maurice Hinchey, John W. Attorney General Joe D. Whitley said, ‘‘The Olver, Bobby L. Rush, James P. lowing letter regarding the asylum application United States cannot tolerate the inherent McGovern, Edolphus Towns, Donald M. of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and the extra- inhumanity of terrorism as a way of settling Payne, Sam Farr, Lane Evans, Bennie dition request from Venezuela: disputes. Appeasement of those who would G. Thompson, Carolyn B. Maloney, Ed DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We are writing to use force will only breed more terrorists. We Pastor, Tammy Baldwin, Sheila Jack- urge you to oppose the application for asy- must look on terrorism as a universal evil, son Lee, Lynn Woolsey, Maxine lum by Luis Posada Carriles, and to support even if it is directed toward those with whom Waters. the request for extradition to Venezuela, we have no political sympathy.’’ f where he is a fugitive from justice. Aside from the United States’ foreign pol- Posada, a CIA-trained Cuban exile, is one icy regarding Cuba, our stated, official na- IN RECOGNITION OF GEN. PETER of only two prime suspects in the bombing of tional security policy against terrorism is PACE, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT a Cuban civilian airliner, which killed all 73 unequivocally clear. CHIEFS OF STAFF people onboard on October 6, 1976, according On September 19, 2001, Mr. President, you to FBI investigators and declassified docu- eloquently reaffirmed our national policy ments. The plane had originated in Caracas against terrorism: ‘‘Anybody who harbors a HON. STEVEN R. ROTHMAN and was bound for Cuba, with a stop in Bar- terrorist, encourages terrorism, will be held OF NEW JERSEY bados. The bomb went off as the plane was accountable. I would strongly urge any na- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES leaving Barbados. tion in the world to reject terrorism, expel In addition to the Cuban airline bombing, terrorists.’’ Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Posada is implicated in an act of terrorism On August 26th, 2003 you said, ‘‘If you har- that took place on American soil, here in bor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if Mr. ROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today Washington, DC. On September 21, 1976 you feed a terrorist, you are just as guilty as with great pride in honoring an extraordinary former Chilean government minister Orlando the terrorists.’’ The National Security Strat- individual, Marine Corps General Peter Pace, Letelier and his American associate, Ronni egy of the United States, released in 2002 who was recently nominated to serve as the Moffit, were killed by a car bomb near stated, ‘‘No cause justifies terror. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Sheridon Circle. The bombing was one of the United States will make no concessions to United States Armed Forces. General Pace worst acts of foreign terrorism on American terrorist demands and strike no deals with was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, one of soil to that date. them. We make no distinction between ter- the largest municipalities in the Congressional Carter Cornick, a retired counterterrorism rorists and those who knowingly harbor or specialist for the FBI who worked on the provide aid to them.’’ District that I am privileged to represent. Gen- Letelier case, said in an interview that both Not only must the United States reject the eral Pace has risen to become the first Marine the airline bombing and the Letelier bomb- asylum application of Luis Posada Carriles, to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an honor that ing were planned at a June 1976 meeting in a known international terrorist, but Posada he has earned through decades of hard work Santo Domingo attended by Posada in addi- should also be returned to Venezuela for a and determination. His story is a source of in- tion to others. Mr. Cornick said that Posada proper adjudication of the case against him. spiration to every resident of the Garden was involved ‘‘up to his eyeballs’’ in plan- Posada was a dual citizen of Venezuela and State. ning the attacks. At the time of the bomb- Cuba, he plotted terrorist crimes from Ven- The son of an Italian immigrant, Peter Pace ings, Venezuelan police found maps and ezuela, including the bombing of the civilian other evidence in Posada’s Venezuelan home airline flight that had originated in Ven- was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved that tied him to the terrorist acts. Further- ezuela, and he escaped from a Venezuelan to Teaneck with his family the following year. more, a recently declassified 1976 F.B.I. docu- prison. As a sovereign nation, Venezuela has After settling down in a home on Hillside Ave- ment confirms Posada’s presence at two the right to pursue justice in this case. nue, Peter quickly became involved in local meetings in the Anauco Hilton Hotel in Ca- Posada’s lawyer Eduardo Soto has objected youth athletics. While attending Teaneck High racas where the airline bombing was to his client’s return to Venezuela, arguing School, Peter worked hard and achieved aca- planned. that he could be tortured there. To satisfy demic excellence, which resulted in his ac- Posada, a dual citizen of Venezuela and such concerns, the United States should ceptance to the United States Naval Academy Cuba, and a former Venezuelan intelligence abide by its standard policy on these mat- agent, was jailed in Venezuela for the airline ters, which according to William Haynes II, in 1963. bombing, but then escaped from prison in general counsel of the Defense Department, Upon graduation from Annapolis and suc- 1985 while awaiting trial. ‘‘is to obtain specific assurances from the re- cessful completion of The Basic School in After escaping prison, Posada continued to ceiving country that it will not torture the Quantico, VA, Peter Pace was assigned to the terrorize civilians, and even boast publicly individual being transferred to that coun- 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division VerDate Sep 11 2014 08:09 Feb 03, 2017 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00254 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 9920 E:\FDSYS\2005BOUNDRECORD\BOOK8\NO_SSN\BR19MY05.DAT BR19MY05 ejoyner on DSK30MW082PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE.
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