Terrorism on embassy row

FBI-listed terrorists free in America

Thirty years ago today a car bomb exploded on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC claiming the lives of Chilean diplomat Orlando Latelier and Institute for Policy Studies employee Ronni Karpen Moffitt. This terrorist act carried out by agents of then-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet often was considered the worst ever carried out on American soil, until 9/11/2001.

Democracy Now! carried an interview featuring Francisco Letelier, son of Orlando Letelier, and writer Peter Kornbluh. Kornbluh described some connections between the Latelier assassins and Cuban anti-Castro terrorists who currently are allowed to walk free in America:

PETER KORNBLUH: Well, there’s a loose connection. Anti-Castro Cubans that were part of an umbrella terrorist group, according to the FBI, were involved working with the Chilean secret police to assassinate the former foreign minister and former ambassador to Washington, Orlando Letelier, and his American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, 30 years ago this morning. And those same anti-Castro Cubans were part of a group that planned a series of terrorist attacks across Latin America in the summer of 1976, culminating in the infamous bombing of the Cubana Flight 455 on October 6. And that's where largely the connection lies. [Luis Posada Carriles] was a mastermind of this attack, according to --the plane attack-- according to declassified documents.

Posada for the moment is in detention, but could be freed soon to join Orlando Bosch, another of the Flight 455 bombers, now living freely in Florida.

Here's a case where proven terrorists friendly to the US administration are treated very differently from persons from the wrong country and religion.