Published: May. 4, 2007 at 2:30 PM
MIAMI, May. 4 (UPI) -- Three Cuban lawmakers have condemned the Justice
Department's decision to send FBI agents to Cuba to collect evidence
against a terror suspect.
The FBI have reportedly been to Cuba recently to gather more information
on the alleged involvement Luis Posada Carriles in a hotel bombing that
killed an Italian in Havana in 1997.
"By asking a state sponsor of terrorism for evidence' regarding
terrorism, the Bush administration Justice Department demonstrates a
shockingly profound ignorance of the nature of terrorism, of its origins
and its state sponsors," U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and brothers
Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart said in a statement, The Miami Herald
reported Friday.
Posada, who is currently under house arrest at his wife's home in the
Miami area, was recently released on bond and is scheduled to stand
trial for crossing the U.S. border into Texas illegally in 2005. The
79-year-old former CIA-trained explosives expert is also wanted in Cuba
and Venezuela for allegedly orchestrating the 1976 bombing of a Cuban
airliner in Venezuela that killed 73 people.
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