[News] Bush's Justice And Anti-Cuban Terrorism

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Havana.  February 29, 2008

BUSH’S 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 Justice’s 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 Florida’s 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 Havana’s 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 CANF’s 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 Llama’s 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 CANF’s activities. He also called for 
influential Congressman Bill Archer to review the 
CANF’s status as a non-profit organization.

Neither of these investigations ever happened.

Llama’s confession, as well as Posada’s, 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 country’s 
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

Llama’s 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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