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  Orlando Bosch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orlando Bosch is a Cuban exile, head of CORU organization, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization".
Orlando Bosch was in contact with CIA in 1962 and 1963, as the agency itself admitted, reported the National Security Archive [1].
Orlando Bosch was jailed in Venezuela awaiting trial for his role concerning the Cubana Flight 455 bombing but was never convicted of these charges.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orlando_Bosch   (338 words)

  
 Orlando - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orlando Bloom; Orlando Gibbons; Orlando Letelier; Orlando W. Wilson; Orlando Cepeda; Orlando Brown; Orlando Bosch; Orlando Bandinelli; Orlando Villas Boas; Orlando Llenza; Orlando Smith; Orlando A. Naranjo; Orlando Cabrera; Orlando Reeves; Orlando Ramírez; Orlando Pace
Note that there are several names derived from Orlando, like in the many names given to Orlando di Lasso, a.k.a.
Orlando was the name of a horse that won the Epsom Derby in 1844
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orlando   (211 words)

  
 Webguild Sentinel Bush Pardons Terrorist
Bosch, had been serving a prison sentence but was freed as the result of a campaign launched by Jeb Bush and his right-wing Cuban supporters in Florida.
The terrorist activities of Orlando Bosch are fully documented in the book Deadly Secrets by Warren Hinkle and William Turner, who in turn drew their information from a Senate investigation led by Senator Kerry into the activities of the CIA.
Bosch was the founder of the "Command of the United Revolutionary Organizations" formed to cooperate with the DINA Chilean secret police and other Latin American repressive organisms in the murder of leftists throughout the region, including the assassination of the Chilean ambassador, Letelier, in Washington, DC.
www.webguild.com /sentinel/bush_pardon.htm   (510 words)

  
 INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA
On November 15, 1968, Bosch was convicted in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida of various felony offenses arising out of the assault on the Polish vessel.
Bosch was paroled in 1972 and left the United States in 1974, thereby violating the terms of his parole.
Bosch, the brain behind what is known as the Cubana airliner explosion, the author of more than 50 attacks in the United States and abroad, the apologist for terrorism, received a presidential pardon from George Bush on July 20, 1990.
www.granma.cu /ingles/enero02-4/5bin-i.html   (2052 words)

  
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Orlando Bosch is a Cuban, convicted felon, a man once charged with masterminding the bombing of a civilian airliner in which 73 people died.
Bosch was convicted that same year of firing a bazooka at a Polish freighter in Miami harbor and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
On his release from a Venezuelan prison in 1987, Bosch announced he was ready to `rejoin the struggle' and, regarding the Cubana bombing, that `all of Castro's airplanes are warplanes.' In 1988 he was released and returned to the U.S., where he was arrested as a parole violator.
www.fas.org /irp/congress/1990_cr/h900803-terror.htm   (1404 words)

  
 09/27/01: Bush frees terrorist bomber
Orlando Bosch was not released because he was rehabilitated and repentant.
Orlando Bosch is arrested by the Costa Rican police on charges of plotting the assassination of the exiled Chilean leader Andres Pascal Allende in Costa Rica.
Orlando Bosch was one of the Cuban nationals known to be traveling from Miami to Dallas with weapons on Nov. 21—22.
www.mrcranky.com /movies/sept11/54.html   (2385 words)

  
 Terrorist Abbas Captured in Baghdad, Bosch still at Large in Miami : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Orlando Bosch, convicted for the hijacking and murder of 73 people, remains at large in Miami.
Meanwhile in Miami, Orlando Bosch of 75 years, convicted in Cuba for the "cold-blooded murder" of the 73 people who died in a Cuban jetliner bombing he orchestrated in 1976 remains at large.
Orlando Bosch, whose name is now permanently associated with one of the first acts of airline terrorism, resides inside a beige stucco home in west Miami-Dade.
sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1600842   (564 words)

  
 Center for International Policy
Department of Justice demonstrated that Cantero's ally, Orlando Bosch, was involved from 1961 to 1968 in 30 acts of sabotage in the United States, Puerto Rico, Panama and Cuba, including the dynamite bombing of at least three ships.
Bosch, who was found guilty by a U.S. court of some of those acts, was free on parole in 1972, when he fled from the United States to a Central American country where he established his new headquarters.
Bosch is a bitter enemy of Castro and any crime against the Cuban people can be presented as a struggle for democracy, even the blowing up of an airliner full of teenagers, athletes as young as 16 and 17.
www.ciponline.org /cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/rp062702aruca.htm   (1680 words)

  
 Center for International Policy
Bosch was a Cuban exile who had been convicted in the U.S. of terrorist activities and spent four years in prison.
Bosch was released and still lives freely and unrepentant in Miami.
And the case of Orlando Bosch is not an isolated one.
www.ciponline.org /cuba/cubainthenews/newsarticles/ss053102smith.htm   (795 words)

  
 Hall of shame - Orlando Bosch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Similarly, in 1978, from prison, Orlando Bosch planned and directed the execution terrorist activities against Mexico as a statement and response from the international terrorist elements, toward the government of Mexico in relation to the assasination of D'Artagnan Diaz Diaz by the criminals of CORU.
This Orlando Bosch, criminal by nature, shamelessly admitted before the Venezuelan Military Tribunal in charge of the Barbados crime investigation, his fascist convictions and his active participation in numerous activities against the Cuban Revolution.
Perhaps the number of deaths weighing on Bosch’s conscience is not greater than that of Bin laden, but in terms of the number of lethal actions and his years of serving criminal objectives, his record is unequaled.
www.concentric.net /~Gonzoid/obosch.htm   (4171 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Not moving, part II by Ann Coulter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bosch's only known violent crime -- admittedly not proved with DNA evidence and a score of witnesses, but found by a jury nevertheless -- was to fire a rifle at a Polish ship docked off of Miami in 1968.
Bosch was paroled in 1974, but soon violated his parole by fleeing rather than testifying against a fellow anti-Castro Cuban.
So in 1990, when Bosch was in his 60s, the Bush Justice Department released him from a deportation holding cell with the proviso that he renounce violence and wear an electronic ankle bracelet for monitoring by federal agents.
www.townhall.com /columnists/anncoulter/ac20020412.shtml   (889 words)

  
 Inter-American Human Rights Database
It was stated that Dr. Orlando Bosch's state of health was critical, because of his hunger strike, and that he had been denied visits by his family, and particularly his wife, Adriana, as well as his personal physician and his friends.
Bosch and the others involved in the case were being violated with their protracted imprisonment and the drawn proceedings, even after they had been found innocent and the Prosecutor had withdrawn the charges.
Citizens Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch Avila, Hernán Ricardo Lozano, and Freddy Lugo were brought to trial before the Permanent War Council of Caracas, for the alleged crimes of treason, murder in the second degree, forgery of documents, and others.
www.wcl.american.edu /humright/digest/1984/res284.cfm   (1684 words)

  
 SPEECHES MADE BY LEONARD WEINGLASS, ATTORNEY FOR THE FIVE
This case is more easily understood if you think of the case of Orlando Bosch, a member of that terrorist network, who planted a bomb on a Cubana airline in 1976, which exploded in midair, killing 73 people.
Bosch applied for residence in the United States after that episode, and the Justice Department and the INS deemed him an undesirable person, pointed to 30 years of terrorist activity including the bombing, and asked that he be barred from entry in the United States.
The Justice Department opposed asylum for Orlando Bosch because Orlando Bosch was involved in the bombing of an airliner in 1976 in which seventy-three people were killed, a Cuban airliner.
www.iacenter.org /Cuba/cuba5_weinglass.html   (2788 words)

  
 Antiterroristas.
Orlando Bosch has once more presented his terrorist credentials by declaring openly and publicly in Miami that he would not rule out any methods in his fight against Cuba.
Three weeks ago (November 15) Bosch delivered a speech at an event in which he called the Varela Project, a plan for a peaceful transition to electoral democracy in Cuba, "stupid." (Roman supports the project.) Bosch was among the orators honoring the four imprisoned heroes.
Bosch also vowed to "never relinquish other means of struggle" and noted that some people don't understand the difference between "terrorism" and "direct action." (Last year in a conversation with New Times he asserted there was no distinction, saying armed conflict was terrorism.
www.antiterroristas.cu /index.php?tpl=noticia/anew¬iciaid=557¬iciafecha=2002-12-10   (2193 words)

  
 Our Man's in Miami. Patriot or Terrorist? (washingtonpost.com)
In 1976, Bosch, Posada and two Venezuelans, were charged and imprisoned for the bombing of the Cuban civilian airliner -- the first act of airline terrorism in the hemisphere -- killing all aboard, including the members of Cuba's national fencing team, many of them teenagers.
"Bosch and Posada were the primary suspects," a retired high-level CIA official familiar with the case confirmed in an interview, adding "there were no other suspects." A close confidante of the two militants told me, "It was a screw-up.
Bosch was allowed to leave Venezuela not long after then-U.S. ambassador Otto Reich voiced concerns about his safety in a series of cables to the State Department.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A58297-2005Apr16.html   (1712 words)

  
 Orlando Bosch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A Cuban exile by the name of Orlando Bosch is accused of masterminding the bombing and spends 11 years in a Venezuelan prison.
Bosch has been in US custody since he entered the US illegally in 1988 (see October 6, 1976).The Justice Department's decision releases Bosch from custody and puts him under house arrest.
It also reverses an earlier ruling that Bosch be deported and it ignores Cuba's request that he be extradited to Cuba to stand trial for the downing of Flight 455.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=orlando_bosch   (270 words)

  
 Terrorist harbored in the U.S.
Bosch stood trial in Venezuela for masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner that killed 73 people.
"Orlando Bosch is a terrorist--there’s no question that he was responsible for downing that plane," says Wayne Smith, the State Department’s leading Cuba expert from 1958 to 1982.
During Bosch’s trial, Reich was the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.
www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/390/390_02_OttoReich.shtml   (447 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Friends of terrorism
Bosch had already been convicted of a terrorist attack in Miami on a Polish merchant vessel bound for Cuba and jailed in the US.
Amazingly, Bosch was granted a pardon by George Bush senior in 1990 and is now in Florida, apparently untroubled by the current president's commitment to rooting out terrorism in all its forms.
In response to the Senate foreign relations committee's question, "Do you consider Orlando Bosch to be a terrorist?", Reich wrote: "I do not have sufficient knowledge of Mr Bosch's criminal activities to pass judgment on his legal status." This is impossible to believe.
www.guardian.co.uk /bush/story/0,7369,646883,00.html   (1162 words)

  
 batista
Bosch was one of those responsible for the disastrous 1976 mid-flight explosion aboard a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft which caused the death of 73 people.
When Orlando Bosch was set free by Venezuelan justice, thanks to manoeuvres by Otto Reich, "little brother" Jeb Bush--at that time in charge of Cuban-American representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's campaign--recruited him as spokesman for the CANF group which was demanding the release of the dangerous criminal.
In 1968, "Dr." Bosch, failed paediatrician turned assassin, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after having fired a bazooka at a polish ship anchored in Miami's port.
www.geocities.com /theangryearth/batista.html   (1398 words)

  
 Jean-Guy Allard, Release for the four dangerous international terrorists?
Posada shares with Orlando Bosch from Miami the title of most dangerous terrorist in the hemisphere, the words of the FBI itself.
With Orlando Bosch of Miami, Posada shares the title of most dangerous terrorist in the hemisphere, in the words of the FBI.
Posada and Bosch were subsequently detained by the Venezuelan authorities, but continued directing CORU operations from prison, and in 1977 planned various acts of terrorism against Venezuelan interests and targets abroad, as a means of pressure.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/47/482.html   (2049 words)

  
 Orlando Bosch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Bosch founded the contra-revolutionary group called "Poder Cubano" (Cuban Power) which he used as a means of developing and implementing his terrorist theme of war throughout the world.
Bosch entered the United States, where he was granted asylum.
Bosch, however, said he wasn't aware of Veciana being involved with any American intelligence agent in the planning, and that Veciana had never mentioned a Maurice Bishop to him.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKbosch.htm   (2426 words)

  
 TRUE DEMOCRACY Summer 2002
Orlando Bosch, a fascist Cuban who lives today lives in Miami, spent 11 years confined to a Venezuelan prison from that act.
Therefore, insofar as you are acting in the same capacity of harboring this vicious terrorist Orlando Bosch in the state of Florida, I will consider you no less despicable and no less guilty as long as you allow this man to live here with immunity from justice.
As you are willing to protect this terrorist, I demand that you immediately resign from your office, as it is an insulting offense against humanity to harbor a self- confessed, cold-blooded killer who has been investigated and found guilty for that monstrous crime 25 years ago.
truedemocracy.net /td2_3/78_ac.html   (531 words)

  
 Bosch Sparkplugs -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In 1925 Bosch was one of the founders of IG_Farben and from 1935 chairman of the board of directors.
Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942), German industrialist and philanthropist, born in Albeck near Ulm as the 11th child of Servatius and Margarete Bosch, themselves children of wealthy farmers.
The portrait of Bosch is captioned ''Jeronimus Bos painctre''.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/21/bosch-sparkplugs.html   (1053 words)

  
 Daily Kos: Trade with Cuba, the terrorists have won
Acting Associate Attorney General Joe Whitley wrote in his decision to deport Bosch: "The October 6, 1976, Cuban airline bombing was a CORU operation under the direction of Bosch.
CORU is the name of Bosch's terrorist outfit."  That bombing marked the first time that a civilian passenger jet was turned into a weapon of terrorism.
Convicted terrorist Bosch is pardoned by Bush I, and is considered a hero on the streets of Miami.
www.dailykos.net /archives/000180.html   (710 words)

  
 Bosch: Often at Loggerheads With Law, Exile Had Always Remained Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Dr. Orlando Bosch, baby doctor turned exile activist, long has been one of the most controversial members of Miami's Cuban community.
In December, 1966, Bosch and one of his aides, Marcelino Garcia, went on trial in Miami Federal Court on charges of trying to extort $21,000 from a fellow refugee to finance anti-Castro operations.
Bosch also claimed that "U.S. agents" once entered the MIRR offices, then on Flagler St., and withdrew "certain files" and "documents with the names of Cubans who contribute to the movement." He also charged federal authorities with bugging his office and called a press conference to produce a small listening device.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /bosch/bosch.htm   (546 words)

  
 Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home!: Terrorism And The Bush Family
Bosch, a convicted terrorist originally from Cuba, is one of the Bush family's dirty little secrets.
Bosch left Venezuela after the prosecution failed to keep the case alive there, reportedly as a result of the intervention of the US ambassador, Otto Reich.
Orlando Bosch is now a free man living in Miami.
screwyou.thezeroboss.com /archives/004080.html   (1066 words)

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