Castro Enemy Said to Have Recounted Role in Attacks (former CIA )

[Judi Lynn]

Source: New York Times

Castro Enemy Said to Have Recounted Role in Attacks
By DAN FROSCH
Published: March 16, 2011

EL PASO — A journalist called as a key prosecution witness in the perjury trial of an elderly anti-Castro militant testified on Wednesday that the defendant had described in detailed interviews his role in a wave of bombings that tore through Havana in 1997.

The witness, Ann Louise Bardach, was a contract writer for The New York Times when she interviewed the man, Luis Posada Carriles, in 1998. The interviews were the foundation for articles she wrote that year with Larry Rohter, a reporter for The Times, in which Mr. Posada spoke about coordinating the bombs at hotels and restaurants to frighten tourists.

Mr. Posada, 83, has been on trial in federal court here for two months, but not for the attacks in Havana that killed an Italian tourist, or in connection with the downing of a Cuban jet in 1976 that killed 73 people — both of which have made him a wanted man in Cuba and Venezuela.

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Federal prosecutors say Mr. Posada, who was on the C.I.A.’s payroll during the 1960s and ’70s, lied during immigration hearings more than five years ago about how he had gotten into the United States and about his involvement in the Havana bombings.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/us/17posada.html?_r=1&ref=americas

[EFerrari]

1. This testimony could give the Cuban Five another day in court.

Is that possible?

[joshcryer]

2. No.

I don't see how this would allow the Cuban Five to get an appeal.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The hypocrisy is out there for the world to see, keeping these 5 as prisoners

who were actually trying to protect their homeland from Posada Carriles and his scummy ilk, while Posada Carriles, who co-engineered a mid-air airliner bombing which slaughtered 73 people, including children, has walked as a free man in Miami for ages, free to concoct another bombing plot which almost, had the Cuban secret security not discovered it first, investigating Panama's facilities, prior to a public speech by Fidel Castro in an auditorium, where they expected hundreds of people to attend, would have slaughtered hundreds and hundreds MORE people.

As it was, he was pardoned by Panama's President Mireya Moscoso, _Bush ally on the day before she was scheduled to leave office, then leave Panama, to move directly to Miami. She even called the "exile" community in advance to alert them to the fact she was setting Posada Carriles free.

So even though apparently nothing can move the US to turn them loose, it all adds to a mountain of evidence the US government has been completely vicious in all its dealings with Cuba since the bloody butcher Batista was overthrown by the Cuban people in 1959.

It would to the U.S. reputation a world of good to be seen as acting fairly toward a tiny country it has bullied and terrorized for far, FAR too long. A new page MUST be turned, even if we have to wait until a strong Democratic President is elected.

[RedCloud]

4. How is it that the tiny sliver of Cuban Americans has so much voice?

Mexican Americans are the vast majority and need to take over these foreign relation counsels/ policy boards so long dominated by the Cubans.

Majority rule and we will not have such blanket approval for uber right activities.

[formercia]

5. Florida is a key state in Federal Elections

and the Cubans can swing the vote. It's a protection racket.

[RedCloud]

6. I look at it this way. Mexican Americans=democrats. Cuban Americans = uber repugs

Generalizations to be sure. I just learned today that even the US ambassador to Mexico is Cuban American.

Let's hear from our sleeping Hispanic heritage giant!