Cuban bombing suspect arrested in Miami News
Cuban bombing suspect arrested in Miami

[JURIST] Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles [Wikipedia profile] has been arrested by federal agents in Miami, according to a report from CNN. Posada, a onetime CIA asset [Democracy Now report] who slipped into the US two months ago, is accused of bombing a Cuban airplane almost 30 years ago. The Venezuelan government has asked the Bush administration to deport him to face trial over the deaths of the 73 victims of the airliner bombing. Reuters has more.

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Tojo and other Japanese WWII leaders executed for war crimes

On December 23, 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed for war crimes in Tokyo.

Learn more about the Tokyo War Crimes Trials.

Terry Nichols convicted for Oklahoma City bombing

On December 23, 1997, Terry Nichols was found guilty of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter for assisting Timothy McVeigh in bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He was later sentenced to life in prison. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a truck bomb that gutted the building and killed 168 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack on US. soil until the attacks of September 11, 2001. McVeigh was convicted for his role before Nichols on June 2, 1997. Learn more about the trials of Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh.