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Alleged terrorist Luis Posada was finally arrested today in Miami. Posada is accused of bombing a Cuban passenger plane in 1976, among other attacks on Cuban tourist areas in the 1990s, one of which included the death of an Italian national. Posada had been hiding in Miami since March and it had all of the makings of a PR disaster for the Bush Administration. On one hand, Posada was an anti-Castro crusader supported if not beloved by the pro-Bush Cuban exile community in Florida. On the other hand, how could the architects of the global War on Terror possibly harbor a terrorist within its borders?

Apparently, this interview granted to the Miami Herald today was the straw that broke the camel's back, as Posada was arrested later this afternoon.

One thing which is key is that declassified documents have shown that Posada worked for the CIA back in the 1980s and perhaps longer, this also may have been a factor in the Bush administration's embarrassing stalling in his arrest. Interesting that the BBC has focused on this point all along yet the Miami Herald does not focus on this in its coverage.