Emphasize the talking points:
Anti-Castro Cuban exile seeks U.S. custody release [headline]
Lawyers for anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, the suspected mastermind of the 1976 bombing of a Cuban Airlines jet, have filed a motion in court requesting he be released from detention and allowed to live with his family in Miami.
They argued in court papers disclosed on Friday that at age 78 and in ill health Posada was not dangerous and was being held without cause in El Paso by U.S. authorities looking to deport him.
Reuters 08.Apr.06
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Now since good Americans already despise Castro, Posada's a sympathetic figure right away. Anti-Castro and "exile". Sympathy abounds.
Old, frail, and the poor guy he just hates that mean ol' Castro so bad.
He just "bombed a jet" that's not so serious.
Unless you read seven paragraphs in to the story and discover he killed 73 people on that jet he bombed. Everybody on board died. Chances are pretty good most of them were innocent as could be.
Posada is a suspected terrorist. A wanted suspected terrorist. He's in custody in the U.S.
They're trying to build up some sympathy so they can let him go.
Cuba gets brought up in contrast to the "Israel Lobby". The anti-Castro lobby. As though they're two widely separate distinct presences behind the scenes in Washington. But there's some overlap.
