Posada Carriles, “The Bin Laden of the Americas” - Norman Girvan

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Posada Carriles, “The Bin Laden of the Americas” - Norman Girvan

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Posada Carriles, “The Bin Laden of the Americas”    Horace Campbell

Before Osama Bin Laden, there was Luis Posada Carriles

Horace Campbell, who is from Jamaica, is Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University   

The news regarding the killing of Osama Bin Laden by United States military forces hit the airwaves on Sunday, May 1, 2011, prompting jubilation among many people in the United States and other places around the world. Th is triumphalism of US citizens, who were directly or indirectly affected by the military activities of Bin Laden’s al Qaeda group, emanated from the belief that Bin Lade n’s death served justice to the victims for the September 11, 2001 attack on the US. It is, however, important to note that as dreadful as Bin Laden was, modern international terrorism did not begin with him. As quiet as it is kept, international terrorism did not begin on September 11, 2001. Before Osama Bin Laden, there was Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles, also known as Posada Carriles or “Bambi”, according to a de-classified CIA file.

On October 6, 1976, plastic explosives stuffed in tubes of toothpaste brought down Cubana Flight 455 leaving Barbados for Cuba. This singular attack on the Cubana Airline killed all 73 passengers on board, including some of the best athletes in the Caribbean, and was especially felt among Cuban youths who lost 24 members of their Olympic fencing team. This fencing team had recently competed and obtained all gold medals in the Central American and Caribbean Championship . Investigations by the governments of Cuba, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad, Venezuela and the United States ascertained that the mastermind of the explosion was Posada Carriles. The Caribbean demanded that Carriles and his accomplices be brought to swift justice.  

 

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