U.S. Court Bars Deportation of Terrorist Suspect to Cuba or Venezuela

On September 26, 2005, U.S. Immigration Judge William Abbott ruled that a high-profile terrorist suspect could not be deported to Cuba or Venezuela because the United Nations Convention Against Torture prohibited deportation to those countries due to the threat of torture. The Venezuelan government has requested the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, a former C.I.A. operative accused of planning the bombing of the Air Cubana airliner that exploded after taking off from Barbados for Venezuela in 1976 ? [more]