Luis Posada Carriles and Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi

In a dramatic announcement made yesterday shortly after the president’s arrival on Martha’s Vineyard, the administration declared its intention to hand over Luis Posada Carriles, the widely acknowledged mastermind of the bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455 that killed 73 people in 1976, to the Venezuelan government for prosecution. According to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, Obama’s change of heart on the long-requested extradition of Posada, who was a citizen of Venezuela when he allegedly planned the crime, came after watching Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the convicted planner of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, return home to a hero’s welcome in Libya.

So begins Thomas Harrington's biting satire about a man who "despite his public admission of guilt in this and numerous other cases of terrorism, Posada lived a relatively unfettered life in the U.S.... despite having been caught entering the country illegally, under an assumed name" — Lockerbie Outrage Moves Obama to Extradite Long-Wanted Terrorist.