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US Government Must Take a Consistent Stance Against Terrorism: "Few Americans, however, are aware that the United States has refused to extradite four terrorists -- right-wing Cuban exiles trained by the CIA -- convicted over twenty years ago in Venezuela for blowing up a Cuban airline in 1976.
The United States has also refused to extradite John Hull, an American CIA operative indicted in Costa Rica for the 1984 bombing of a press conference in a Nicaraguan border town which killed five journalists.
Similarly, the United States refuses to extradite Emmanuel Constant for trial in Haiti. The former military officer, who had worked closely with the CIA, is believed to be responsible for the murder of upwards to 5000 people under the Haitian dictatorship in the early 1990s.
Perhaps the most significant U.S.-backed terrorist operations in recent decades involved the Contras -- a paramilitary group composed largely of Nicaraguan exiles in Honduras -- who were armed, trained and financed by the U.S. government. They are believed to have been responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 civilians in a series of attacks against villages and rural cooperatives in northern Nicaragua during the 1980s. A number of prominent Reagan Administration officials directly involved in supporting such terrorist activities are now in prominent positions in the Bush Administration. Among these is the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte, who�as President Reagan�s ambassador to Honduras during the1980s�actively supported the Contra terror campaigns across the border."
�Stephen Zunes
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