Posada Carriles Could Be Free in US
International terrorist Luis Posada Carriles could be freed in the United States if the Justice department accepts a request by a federal magistrate who recommended his release from prison, local press reported Tuesday.

According to The Miami Herald newspaper, the request was made by Judge Norbert Garney, in Texas, after declaring the arrest contradicts a failure by the Supreme Court in 2001, forbidding indefinite detention of foreigners who cannot be deported.

Garney stated that the criminal must be freed since the nation s attorney has not classified him as a terrorist.

Posada Carriles is currently at a detention center in Texas, where he was captured in May 2005 after showing up in Miami and proving his illegal entrance to US from Mexico.

So far, he has only been prosecuted for that migratory crime, despite the extradition request presented by Venezuela, which is after him for planning the mid-air explosion of a Cubana commercial plane that killed 73 people in October 1976.

He is also the mastermind behind a series of bomb attacks in Havana hotels in 1997, in which Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo was killed.

Posada Carriles illegally entered the US after being pardoned in 2004 by the then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, before leaving power.

Along with other three terrorists, he served at a Panamanian jail after organizing an assassination attempt against Cuban President Fidel Castro, on occasion of the 2000 Ibero-American Summit, held in that country.

Four months later it was revealed that Posada Carriles defense was undertaking new maneuvers to achieve the criminal s release, this time with testimonies by US politicians and former soldiers.

In March, the Territorial Security agency denied release to Posada Carriles for being a danger for the community and a risk for US national security.