FBI probing Posada's alleged links to Havana bombing

MIAMI (AFP) — US authorities are reportedly probing a 1997 bombing that killed an Italian tourist in Havana to determine whether it involved former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles.

The Miami Herald said FBI agents recently traveled to the communist country to gather evidence on the attack, one of several Cuba claims was masterminded by Posada Carriles, including the deadly 1976 downing of a Cuban jetliner.

The paper said the Havana hotel bombing is the focus of a federal grand jury probe in Newark, New Jersey.

A Cuban-born Venezuelan national staunchly opposed to President Fidel Castro's government, Posada Carriles, 79, is currently under home detention in Miami awaiting trial later this month in in Texas on immigration charges. In an unusual move, US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents visited Cuba last year to interview witnesses, review forensic evidence and visit crime scenes related to the 1997 blast, the Miami Herald ...