Fraunces Tavern bombing victims families call on Trump to get terrorist behind blast back from Cuba

Justice doesn’t wait — not even after 50 years.Long-grieving families who lost loved ones in the 1975 bombing of Manhattan’s Fraunces Tavern called on the new Trump administration to demand the extradition of the domestic terrorist behind the blast, who are now harbored in Cuba.The small group made the plea as they huddled outside the Financial District tavern where the likes of George Washington once dined on Friday — 50 years to the day of the atrocity that killed four people and injured nearly 60.Joseph Connor, who lost his father Frank Connor in the attack, renewed his call for the blast’s suspected Puerto Rican nationalist bomb maker William “Guillermo” Morales to finally face justice.“Our fight for justice began 50 years ago,” he said.“When I was 9 years old, our 33-year-old father was murdered with three innocent men that day.

Finally, after all these years, despite numerous betrayals by politicians, including clemencies — including multiple removals of Cuba from the state sponsored terror list — we have the opportunity for justice.”“(With) a new administration and Marco Rubio as the new secretary of state.Now is the time to bring William Morales and the other fugitives back from Cuba.”The families called for the passage of The Frank Connor and Trooper Werner Foerster Justice Act, a bill introduced last year by Rubio in his waning days as a Florida senator.Their plea is the latest volley in a decades-old fight.The attack unfolded on Jan.

24, 1975, when members of FALN — a Puerto Rican nationalist group — planted a bomb in the tavern.The lunchtime blast shattered windows, destroyed a staircase and damaged the pre-Revolutionary War building on Pearl Street — a storied city landmark noted for being the location where Washington gave his farewell to Continental Army officers.A note found nearby chillingly warned of further violence: “You have unleashed a storm from which you comfortable Yankis (sic) cannot escape.”FALN, ...