[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 425 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 425

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Luis Posada 
 Carriles, mastermind of the vicious attack on Cubana Airlines Flight 
  455 and perpetrator of numerous other acts of terrorism, should be 
 certified as a terrorist and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the 
                                  law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2007

Mr. Serrano (for himself, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Kucinich, Mr. 
  Berman, and Ms. Lee) submitted the following resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Luis Posada 
 Carriles, mastermind of the vicious attack on Cubana Airlines Flight 
  455 and perpetrator of numerous other acts of terrorism, should be 
 certified as a terrorist and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the 
                                  law.

Whereas the attack of Cubana Airlines Flight 455 in October of 1976 took the 
        lives of 73 innocent people, making it one of the worst terrorist 
        attacks on a plane in the Americas;
Whereas declassified FBI and CIA documents report Posada's participation in 
        planning the attack on Flight 455;
Whereas, in 1985, Posada escaped from a Venezuelan prison after being charged 
        with the bombing of Flight 455, only to continue his campaign of violent 
        attacks on innocent civilians;
Whereas the Department of Justice has failed to present an extradition case to a 
        Federal court at the request of the Venezuelan Government, despite 
        treaty obligations which call for such actions;
Whereas a United States District Court threw out all charges against Posada on 
        May 8, 2007, allowing Posada to go free days before he was set to be 
        tried for immigration fraud;
Whereas the Department of Justice has described Posada as ``an unrepentant 
        criminal and admitted mastermind of terrorist plots''; and
Whereas section 236A(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1226a(a)) provides authority to certify Posada as an alien terrorist and 
        thus detain him: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That Expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives that Luis Posada Carriles, mastermind of the vicious 
attack on Cubana Airlines Flight 455 and perpetrator of numerous other 
acts of terrorism, should be certified as a terrorist and prosecuted to 
the fullest extent of the law.
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