[News] Bush's Justice And Anti-Cuban Terrorism
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N T E R N A T I O N A L
Havana. February 29, 2008
BUSHS JUSTICE AND ANTI-CUBAN TERRORISM
A long succession of scandals that have been ignored
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD Granma International staff writer
TWENTY months after having been denounced by one
of its members, a terrorist group active within
U.S. territory, operating with a budget of $1.4
million and with a potent arsenal that includes a
helicopter, 10 remote-controlled airplanes and a
large amount of explosives, continues to function
without being targeted by the law.
In a country that pretends to teach everyone else
how to combat terrorism and is subjecting its own
citizens to countless security measures for that
supposed reason, both the FBI and the Department
of Justices anti-terrorist prosecutors have not
found any reason to take action against the
paramilitary group or the individual who exposed
it, or the accomplices he identified.
On July 19, 2006, FBI special agent Omar Vega and
his colleague, Jorge L. González of the Miami
Police, both on the state of Floridas Joint
Terrorism Task Force, visited Cuban-American José
Antonio Llama, alias "Toñín," a former director
of the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) in his home.
Despite the serious nature of a confession by
Llama on June 22 in an interview with The Miami
Herald newspaper, Vega and González were
satisfied with listening to him. They noted that
he wanted to sue the CANF for fraud (which never
happened) and that he had nothing else to say
apart from what he had already told the newspaper.
Neither of the two agents ever showed the least
intention of taking Llama to court.
None of the CANF members fingered by Llama in
this gigantic conspiracy to commit acts of
terrorism including bombing Havanas Plaza of
the Revolution during a mass demonstration was
ever questioned with respect to the events described.
More than 18 months after those events and in the
light of what is known about the stance taken by
the U.S. justice system toward anti-Cuban
terrorism, we must come to the conclusion that
the visit to Llama had two purposes: one, to
neutralize his actions against the CANF; and two,
to collect any information that he might have
about the CANFs ties to terrorism with the goal
of evaluating any danger to the support mechanism
for the use of terror against Cuba, promoted by the U.S. government itself.
One detail confirms it all: Vega and González are
the same investigators who were in charge of the
case of Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat,
limited to charges of illegal weapons
possession, when it was well-documented that
Alvarez is one of the most dangerous elements in
Luis Posada Carriles terrorist gang, guided and
financed for years by the CANF "paramilitary group" itself.
Years before Llamas statement to the Herald,
Posada had already confessed to The New York
Times in articles published on July 11 and 12,
1998 that the CANF had sponsored his terrorist
campaign against tourist facilities in Cuba
without the FBI intervening in Miami to
counteract the activities of that organization.
Even more scandalously, U.S. Congressman Charles
Rangel, a New York Democrat, specifically
requested in letters dated July 13 and addressed
to Attorney General Janet Reno and Charles
Rossotti, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue
Service, an investigation into the legality of
the CANFs activities. He also called for
influential Congressman Bill Archer to review the
CANFs status as a non-profit organization.
Neither of these investigations ever happened.
Llamas confession, as well as Posadas, are just
two events in a long succession of scandals
ignored by the U.S. media that show the
complicity of U.S. authorities, that countrys
political police and its intelligence services regarding anti-Cuba terrorism.
Likewise, on August 26, 1998, prosecutors forgot
to include Francisco "Pepe" Hernández Calvo on
the list of defendants implicated in the
terrorist plot involving La Esperanza yacht in
Puerto Rico, right before the trial was to begin
in Miami. They were all acquitted for "lack of evidence."
That was also how, via an order from President
George Bush Sr., Orlando Bosch was freed from
prison in November 1987; how a similar decision
by George Bush Jr. likewise freed José Dionisio
"Bloodbath" Suárez Esquivel and Virgilio Paz
Romero in July 2001; and how the president of
Panama pardoned and freed Luis Posada Carriles
from prison in August 2004, which led to his return to his mafia-filled Miami.
Meanwhile, Venezuela continues to wait for an
answer to its extradition application for Posada
Carriles, the most dangerous terrorist on the
continent, and the Cuban Five, who risked their
lives to penetrate that criminal network, remain
imprisoned in the United States.
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All terrorists
Llamas confession in June 1998 to the Herald, by
definitively unmasking the terrorist nature of
the CANF, revealed the masterminds of the
criminal plot. The accomplices he fingered
included, among others: José "Pepe" Hernández,
Elpidio Núñez, Horacio García and Luis Zúñiga, a
personal friend of George W. Bush, who left the
CANF in 2001 to form the Cuban Liberty Council
(CLC). He also exposed Erelio Peña and Raúl
Martínez, of Miami; Fernando Ojeda, Fernando
Canto and Domingo Sadurni, of Puerto Rico; and
Arnaldo Monzón Plasencia and Angel Alfonso
Alemán, today an aide to Congressman Albio Sires, both of New Jersey.
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