Terrorist Osvaldo Mitat released in Miami (Santiago Alverez' cooperative)

[Mika]

Source: Digital Granma International

Osvaldo Mitat was released on Thursday, August 16 after 22 months in prison. He did not complete the sentence handed down to him for illegal possession of weapons, meant for attacking Cuba.

He and Santiago Álvarez Fernández-Magriñá, notorious terrorists, charged with possession of weapons and explosives in the United States, had cut a deal for “cooperation” with prosecutors, who described them as “freedom fighters.”

In 2005, both of them were aboard a boat, the Santrina, which was used to illegally bring another notorious terrorist into the United States: Luis Posada Carriles.

On Thursday, a southern Florida TV channel rejoiced at the news, and Mitat himself said on camera that his friend Santiago would be out soon.

Read more: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/agosto/vier17/34liberado.html

[geomon666]

1. Republicans are above the law.

Even the militant terrorist ones.

[Judi Lynn]

2. As an educational experience, DU'ers can read the articles written in the Miami Herald,

and in El Nuevo Herald which is written in Spanish, to appeal to a large, and, in the right-wing faction, occassionally exceptionally violent Cubans. You may find the tone of the articles very strange. There is a small introduction at the top of the page, by a more normal, politically, person:

The plot thickens. Posada's buddies are now redbaiting the Bush administration, of all people on the planet. Such ingratitude! Wasn't the Bush transition plan and all but eliminating possible visits by Cubans in the United States and most others from the US sufficient for these people? Now they seem to think that their guy Posada should be allowed to walk freely, no, TRIUMPHANTLY around the streets of Miami, giving public press conferences about his heroic role in the anti-Castro freedom struggle? We're still not told what charges, if any, will be filed against Alvarez when the matter reaches a court.

We still don't know whether Alvarez will receive the same kind of Club Fed treatment Posada seems to be receiving. One of the most intransigent of the Miami Militants declares ponderously: "Every time Castro complains about something, this government does whatever they have to so that he doesn't get mad," which give us a bit more of the impression there's some falling out among these elements in Miami, as the Herald here suggests. Slowly but surely we may be beginning to find out more of the details about Posada and how he really DID enter the United States. The Miami exiles have had free run of the city for well over forty years, bombing and otherwise terrorizing people who didn't tow their hysterical line against Cuba.

Not sure? Think that maybe this might be a bit exaggerated?
Read Jim Mullin's THE BURDEN OF A VIOLENT HISTORY:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/news/mullin.html

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MIAMI HERALD
Posted on Mon, Nov. 21, 2005
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/13221494.htm

MIAMI-DADE

U.S. arrests key ally of Posada

The action against a close supporter of Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles
could pit the Bush administration against part of a Republican constituency.

BY OSCAR CORRAL AND JAY WEAVER

[e-mail]

Santiago Alvarez, a longtime anti-Castro activist and key supporter of exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, was arrested in Miami this weekend on federal weapons and passport charges -- a move that could cause a clash between the Bush administration and some members of one of the president's most loyal political constituencies.

Alvarez, a wealthy developer, is charged with possession of automatic weapons, including some with the serial numbers obliterated; a silencer not properly registered; and a false passport, Matthew Dates, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Miami, said Sunday evening.
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http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs293.html

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As it seems, the airline and hotel, restaurant, and nightclub bomber/mass murderer, Luis Posada Carriles was brought back to the States by these two criminals, Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat, two real specimens. They are ALL considered heroes now in Miami, a city named "America's Terror Capital" by the F.B.I. after wave after wave of bombings and other assorted murders were accomplished by these fine folks. You may also remember their great achievements in dirty elections, and exceptionally crooked city commissioners, etc.