Dade residents won't hear exiles' case

[Say_What]

Google these two names... Alvarez and Mitat, Gusano terrorists alive and well in Miami. Alvarez is the one who smuggled documented terrorist Luis Posada Carilles into the US last year.

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A judge ruled that two Cuban exiles arrested on weapons charges in Miami can receive a fair trial before a jury of only Broward County residents in Fort Lauderdale.

The upcoming Fort Lauderdale trial of two anti-Castro activists facing weapons charges won't include any Miami-Dade residents in the jury pool.

They're not needed to ensure the Cuban exiles' right to a fair trial by their peers in Broward County, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge James Cohn found that the ``defendants themselves do not dispute that a fair and impartial jury can be found by using a comprised only of Broward County residents.''

His ruling is another setback for Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat as the Miami men get ready for their trial on Tuesday. Cohn already had ruled on keeping the trial in Fort Lauderdale after the U.S. attorney's office filed the weapons-conspiracy indictment there -- despite the men's arrests in Miami.

Both defendants face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15457956.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. This is a first, isn't it? What a shame it has taken so very, very long

for them to figure this out!



Santiago Alvarez and fellow terrorist Guillermo Novo yukking it up

Incredulous viewers in Havana saw Republican Rep. Cuban "exile" Lincoln Diaz Balart discussing these guys on Miami tv and discussed it in their tv roundtable conversation:

31 August, 2006

US Congressman Declares Respect and Fondness for Terrorists

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Cuban born US Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart told a Miami TV audience that he respects and is fond of two notorious anti-Cuba terrorists Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, both arrested for arms trafficking. He admitted that he and two other congresspersons are involved in secret plans to obtain their release.

The confession was analyzed by a group of journalists on the daily televised program, The Round Table.

The TV footage shows Diaz Balart stating that he felt profound respect for such people as terrorists Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat who were arrested in November for the illegal possession of a huge stash of weapons including automatic machineguns, ammunition, grenades, a grenade launcher, explosives and blasting caps.

Diaz Balart defended his comments cynically saying, "They do not plant bombs in markets."

The deadly loads planted in hotels and restaurants in Cuba back in the 1990s by terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles, Alvarez and Mitat, are seen with sympathy by this lawmaker from the state of Florida, who justifies the murder of innocent civilians in these cases.

Isn’t there an Ethics Committee in the US House of Representatives to grill Diaz Balart for such statements?, asked The Round Table panelists, who added that the makers of US policies against Cuba are disconcerted because of their failures, and wasting their time speaking about a political transition on the island.
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http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/ingles/noticias/art30.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. From a google search on Mitat: Second Posada Ally Arrested

Second Posada Ally Arrested
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Discovering the Caribbean: Cuba

Published by the Miami Herald, 11/21/05

By OSCAR CORRAL

The U.S. government has arrested Cuban exile Osvaldo Mitat, a second Miami ally of exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, his lawyer told the Herald Monday morning.

Mitat is a close friend of developer Santiago Alvarez, who was arrested this weekend on federal weapons and passport charges. A source close to the investigation said a third Posada ally has also been detained, but that could not be confirmed immediately.

Mitat and Alvarez, along with three other men, were passengers on the fishing boat Santrina, which the Cuban government maintains was used to smuggle Posada into the U.S. in March. Alvarez and Mitat both told the Herald in interviews earlier this year that they did not bring Posada aboard the boat.

The third person arrested was also a Santrina passenger, the source said.
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The sudden action against Posada's U.S. allies has shocked some in the Cuban exile community who feel that U.S. authorities are targeting Posada's associates to appease Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has stepped up his anti-Posada rhetoric recently.
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http://americas.org/item_23233



Alvarez. (No Mitat photos available)

It would show you some of these guys are hopelessly insane, if they even dare to imagine _Bush would "appease" the Cuban government by picking on associates of a bomber/mass murderer. _Bush LOVES people like Posada. Just ask his dad, who pardoned Posada's collegue, also a bomber/mass murderer, Orlando Bosch.