Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually dismissed the Venezuelan request for extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles WASHINGTON .- The Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, virtually ruled the Venezuelan request for extradition of Cuban activist Luis Posada Carriles stating that if an individual is involved in criminal activity, "we can judge the case" internally.
"I will not comment on whether we consider it a terrorist or not," Gonzales told reporters on a visit to the offices of The Associated Press in Washington.
Jose Pertierra, Venezuela's government lawyer in the case of Posada Carriles, said that Gonzales's statement "not surprising" and even considered coincident with the Venezuelan government's position that the terrorist should be extradited to Venezuela or prosecuted in the together.
Pertierra said the fate of Posada Carriles to run against the Venezuelan request is "a political decision" assume that does not correspond to Gonzales but the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"The decision to prosecute in the United States is a legal decision," he said. "The law requires the U.S. to prosecute him politically in the U.S. if the U.S. decides not to extradite him."
Currently detained in a prison in El Paso, Texas, but only for violations of immigration laws, Posada Carriles entered the U.S. illegally in 2005 on the yacht Santrina, as was reported recently to recognize Cuba, and U.S. authorities to introduce seven counts of fraud and for lying in connection with its entry into U.S. territory.
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