Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Partial list of terrorists and terror groups currently being funded, supported or sheltered by the US government

Posada-Carilles, Luis:

A militant right-wing Cuban exile, Posada-Carriles was one of the masterminds of the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 in which 73 people were killed. He also conspired, often with Orlando Bosch (see below) to commit a series of bombing attacks both in Havana and throughout Latin America. Posada-Carilles is wanted in Venezuela, but the US refuses to extradite, claiming he may face torture.

Bosch, Orlando:

Carilles major partner in crime and a founding member of CORU, Bosch has been involved in a series of terrorist attacks, including one on US soil (he fired a rocket at a Havana-bound Polish Cruiser in docked in Miami). Bosch and Posada-Carriles were also involved in Operation Condor, and most likely masterminded the assassination of Orlando Letelier in cooperation with Chile's military dictatorship.

Pao, Vang:

One of the bloodiest warlords and most successful opium dealers of the twentieth century, Vang Pao was a CIA asset during the Secret War in Laos. Besides colluding with the CIA in dropping millions of landmines and delayed-explosion bombs throughout the Laotian countryside and selling millions of dollars worth of opium to American soldiers in Vietnam, Mr Pao has also been busy stateside. According to Prof. Alfred McCoy, who has spent literally decades cataloging Pao's misdeeds, he was complicit in "summary executions of enemy captives, fraudulent collection of funds from Hmong-Americans to support his "resistance" to the Lao government, forced conscription of child soldiers, and drug trafficking." Pao was arrested recently on conspiracy charges related to Operation Tarnished Eagle, an alleged plot to destroy a series of buildings in downtown Vientiane, which would likely have killed thousands. He is currently out on bail, despite warnings that he is a major flight risk and capable of having prosecution witnesses killed.

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