I really don't have much to add to what Boz wrote about this excellent article on Luis Posada Carriles and the implications that this could mean for the Bush administration. One point that should be mentioned, as Boz did in comments is the part about the terrorist, Orlando Bosch:
Mr. Bosch, a longtime ally of Mr. Posada's, presented a similar problem for the United States in 1989, when the Justice Department moved to deport him despite resistance from Miami's Cuban-Americans.
The Justice Department called Mr. Bosch "a terrorist, unfettered by laws or human decency, threatening and inflicting violence without regard to the identity of his victims," in the words of Joe D. Whitley, then an associate United States attorney general. Mr. Whitley added: "The United States cannot tolerate the inherent inhumanity of terrorism as a way of settling disputes. Appeasement of those who would use force will only breed more terrorists. We must look on terrorism as a universal evil, even if it is directed toward those with whom we have no political sympathy."
Bosch was not deported. He was granted permanent residence by then President George H.W. Bush who overruled his own Department of Justice in granting a haven for a terrorist. Will the son do the same? Who knows, but if 9/11 really changed everything, he won't grant Carriles asylum.
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