Miami Hurled: Posada trial marked by firsts

[Billy Burnett]

Posada trial marked by firsts
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/04/1957771/posada-trial-marked-by-firsts.html#ixzz17ILFgT2i
Jurors in the Luis Posada Carriles trial will hear
key evidence for the first time -- including a
controversial recorded interview.

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The upcoming trial of Luis Posada Carriles will mark the first time that evidence gathered by Cuban authorities and the FBI will be presented in a U.S. courtroom to show the former CIA operative's alleged role in a string of Havana bombings.

Also for the first time, a jury will hear controversial but key evidence: Posada's taped interview with a New York Times freelance journalist, who quoted him admitting that he masterminded the deadly plot to attack the Havana hotels in 1997.

But serious questions have already surfaced about the recordings that evoke comparisons to Richard Nixon's infamous Watergate tapes: They have a four-minute, 20-second gap involving Posada's commentary about a recruit convicted in Cuba of carrying out the mission, according to court records.

The trial, set for Jan. 10 in El Paso, Texas, will be a spectacle of sorts: Posada, 82 and living in Miami-Dade, has for decades been a magnet for controversy during a career striving to topple Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro.


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[Judi Lynn]

1. This is going to be great. We should make bets on whether or not he will be found guilty on anything

or will of course walk, and file suit for false arrest.

I wouldn't give you a dime for the lives of the 4 Cuban witnesses who will be coming to testify. Their plane will probably blow up approaching Miami. There goes the prosecution's case. Oh, well.

He'll remain free, as always, just like Orlando Bosch, another mass murdering bomber, terrorist and general a-hole.

Get your bets in. This will be a spectacle. We can count on his being well represented, since the talk radio guys always raise tons of money for Cuban "exile" terrorists, and there have been all kinds of dinners, etc. for Posada Carriles in order to raise money for his legal fees.

This guy knows where so many of the bodies are buried. They're going to protect his wrinkled old ass.

Thank you, Billy Burnett.

[flamingdem]

2. thanks! nt