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Try terror suspects in U.S.: Castro

HAVANA: Cuban President Fidel Castro on Wednesday stepped up his denunciation of the U.S. Government for failure to arrest a suspected airplane bomber and said other alleged terrorists also should face trial. In a televised appearance that lasted nearly four hours, Mr. Castro read summaries of newly released U.S. intelligence documents linking Luis Posada Carriles and other anti-Castro militants to terrorist attacks beyond the 1976 bombing of a jetliner that killed 73 persons. Mr. Castro repeated his demands that the U.S. locate, arrest and extradite former CIA agent Posada for trial in Venezuela, where he is wanted for trial in the airplane attack. Posada's attorney says he is in the U.S. and is seeking asylum. But Mr. Castro also increasingly turned the focus to other militants, several of them linked to Posada. Chief among those is Orlando Bosch, a man termed a terrorist in some U.S. intelligence documents, which also link him to the 1976 bombing. He was pardoned by President George Bush Senior. Both Posada and Bosch deny involvement in the bombing, but Bosch has several times said that the jetliner was a legitimate target in the war against Mr. Castro. Mr. Castro said he would accept an international trial for the men to avoid defence claims they would risk death if returned for trial in Venezuela — though Mr. Castro noted that country has no death penalty. He long ago renounced Cuba's right to try Posada.

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