Cuban state TV airs purported confession by Salvadoran charged in 1990s Havana bomb attacks (US res)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Cuban state TV airs purported confession by Salvadoran charged in 1990s Havana bomb attacks
PAUL HAVEN
Asociated Press Writer
10:32 p.m. EDT, September 27, 2010

HAVANA (AP) — State television on Monday broadcast a recently extradited El Salvador man confessing to a role in a 1990s bombing spree against Cuba's tourist hotels, attacks that Havana has long blamed on Cuban-American exile groups.

The suspect, Francisco Chavez Abarca, was arrested in Venezuela on July 1, traveling on a false passport, and quickly flown to Cuba to face charges in the bombing campaign. Monday's program was the first glimpse of him since then.

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On the show, Chavez Abarca said he was hired to plant bombs by Luis Posada Carriles, an 80-year-old anti-Castro militant and former CIA operative. Posada Carriles lives in the U.S., where he is awaiting trial on charges he lied to federal authorities in his 2005 bid to become a U.S. citizen.

Facing a deportation order, Posada Carriles was released from jail in April 2007 and has been living with his family in Miami. An immigration judge ruled he cannot be sent to Venezuela or Cuba because of concerns he would be tortured. No other country has been willing to accept him.

Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-cb-cuba-terror-suspect,0,3319872.story

[L.Torsalo]

1. AP

does it again. The Cubans aired a "purported confession"...I understand that a man may be forced to such, but a confession is a confession unless proven to be false. AP, losers.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Is Posada Carriles

Spanish for piece of shit ? :shrug: