(12 Apr 2007)
FILE: Havana, Cuba - September 2006
1. Wide exterior of US Interests Section with black flags placed by Cuban government to commemorate the dead allegedly at hands of the U.S.
2. Zoom in billboard reading (Spanish) "The Assassin, starring Posada Carriles and George W. Bush"
Havana, Cuba - 11 April 2007
3. Pan right of newspaper headlines reading (Spanish) "The Brutal Response"
4. Close up Fidel Castro's name in newspaper
5. Wide shot of conference room
6. Two copies of recently published book about Posada Carriles
7. Wide shot of media at conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Eliana Alfonso, Daughter of Cubana Airlines Victim:
"We demand that the U.S. government ceases to protect the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. We demand that the U.S. government honour the accords they have signed and obligate them to judge Luis Posada Carriles in their territory."
FILE: Barbados - October 1976:
9. Cubana flight taking off from Barbados
10. Various of graphics UPSOUND: (English) recording of black box on plane:
"(Pilot) We have an explosion on board and we are descending immediately. We have a fire on board.
(Control Tower) Cubana 455, are you returning to the field? Cubana 455 Seawell?"
FILE: Havana, Cuba - October 1976:
11. Pan left of Revolution Square with massive crowd
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba:
"The C.I.A. (Central Intelligence Agency) is behind these events!"
13. Funeral procession arriving at Revolution Square
14. Medium shot of soldiers draping Cuban flags on coffins
15. Zoom out from pictures of victims to Flight Attendants standing for Honour Guard
16. Zoom out families and friends crying as they walk by caskets
STORYLINE:
Fidel Castro has denounced the pending release in the United States of a jailed Cuban militant who was once a U.S. operative, accusing the American government of planning to free a "monster."
Family members of bombings blamed on Luis Posada Carriles joined the protest on Wednesday, saying that freeing him would be risky, after a U.S. judge upheld a decision to grant bail to Posada.
Castro's charges came in a signed letter distributed by Foreign Ministry officials after U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone refused earlier on Tuesday to reverse her decision allowing Posada to be released on bond.
"The answer is brutal," Castro wrote. "The government of the United States and its most representative institutions have decided the liberation of the monster beforehand."
The letter was the third in recent days signed by the ailing Cuban leader, who has not been seen in public for more than eight months. Castro, 80, announced on July 31 that he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and provisionally ceded his presidential functions to his 75-year-old brother, Raul, the defence minister.
Fidel Castro's medical condition and actual ailment remain a state secret, but he is widely believed to suffer from diverticular disease, a common affliction among the elderly that causes inflammation and bleeding in the colon.
Cardone ruled in El Paso, Texas on Friday that Posada could be released on a 250,000 US Dollar bond from the Otero County jail in New Mexico, pending trial on charges of lying to immigration authorities in a bid to become a naturalised citizen.
Posada's family members in Miami must still post a 100,000 US dollar personal surety bond, said Posada's lawyer in Miami. The family members - his wife, daughter and son - also have to sign custodianship affidavits committing to act as Posada's supervisor upon his release, Hernandez said.
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