Posted on 01/05/2011 9:38:29 AM PST by moonshinner_09
This coming Jan. 10 in El Paso, Texas, a U.S. government farce will take place with the opening trial of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in federal district court. Instead of facing charges of premeditated murder—for the bombing deaths of 73 people who died in a Cuban airliner on Oct. 6, 1976, and other crimes—Posada will only be tried for perjury and immigration fraud.
Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles The ANSWER Coalition, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and other organizations will be there to demand justice for Posada's victims. Actions will include a People's Tribunal to be held Jan. 9 and a protest rally outside the federal courthouse Jan. 10.
The perjury and immigration fraud charges are related to Posada's illegal and secret entry into the United States in late March 2005, when he lied to U.S. immigration officials.
At that interview, he was asked whether he had a role in procuring the help of mercenaries who planted bombs in Havana hotels in the summer of 1997.
In one of those bombings, an Italian tourist, Fabio Di Celmo, was killed when shrapnel struck him in the lobby of the Copacabana Hotel in Havana on Sept. 4, 1997. In a July 13, 1998 New York Times interview with journalist Ann Louise Bardach, Posada boasted of his directing role in those bombings. He also gave the names of his financiers in the Cuban American National Foundation.
Posada notoriously told Bardach about Di Celmo’s murder, “I sleep like a baby… That Italian was sitting in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Bardach’s recorded interview is part of the evidence to be presented in the trial. However, the judge, Kathleen Cardone, has expressed reservations about the quality of the tape, thus providing a possibility that the evidence may ultimately be rejected.
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The fact that Noam Chomsky was trying to get him extradited to Cuba is all you need to know about this. The saddest thing is that Posada wasn’t even more successful.
These people are protesting against a guy who bombed an airliner, killing innocent people. I'm okay with that. However, their mission as stated by the name of the organization is to free people who helped the Cuban government shoot down an unarmed private plane with four people aboard. I see a bit of a logical disconnect here.
The only sad thing here is that Posada isn’t being tried for murder. He was purposely targeting civilian hotels and night clubs, and civilian airliner, in his bombings in order to affect political change. We call that terrorism.
Going after Castro is okay with me. But I still can’t believe we are harboring this terrorist. It’s a tribute to the power of the anti-Castro lobby. Even if we refuse to extradite him to Venezuela or Cuba for obvious reasons, we should still prosecute him ourselves under universal jurisdiction for terrorism.
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