[News] Posada Carriles - School for Liars
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School for liars
February 1, 2010
Posada Carriles Tells the El Paso Court I lied
because the CIA taught me how.
<http://www.cubadebate.cu/opinion/2010/01/29/menti-porque-la-cia-me-enseno-dice-luis-posada-carriles/>Español
By José Pertierra
Translation: Machetera Tlaxcala
In a motion presented yesterday before the
federal court in El Paso, where he is being tried
for perjury rather than murder, Luis Posada
Carriles offers the curious defense that due to
his many years of work with the CIA, his
statements when interrogated by U.S. immigration
officials shortly after illegally entering the
United States in March of 2005 were the result
of confusion, mistake and faulty memory.
Posada alleges that throughout his employment
with the CIA, he used various false identities
and passports to facilitate his undercover work
against Cuba, Venezuela and other Latin American
countries. So many lies have led him to be
confused now, according to the 14 page legal
argument his legal team has presented to Judge Kathleen Cardone.
The prosecutors wish to exclude all the evidence
regarding Posada Carriles and the CIA from this
trial, arguing that it is irrelevant as well as
confidential. Washington knows that Posada has
plenty to tell and it is trying to limit his
testimony and the evidence to the greatest extent
possible so as not to expose the crimes committed
by Posada Carriles throughout his decades of work for the CIA.
There are declassified CIA cables in existence,
for example, as well as confessions from the
material authors of the crime, which establish
that Posada was the intellectual author behind
the explosion of a Cubana airlines civilian
airplane on October 6, 1976, where 73 passengers were killed.
Venezuela presented a request for his extradition
in June of 2005, and this remains pending,
without the White House attending to it. Posada
confessed to the New York Times in 1998 that he
had orchestrated a terrorist campaign against
hotels and restaurants in Havana which caused the
cold-blooded death of Fabio Di Celmo in the Hotel
Copacabana, as well as wounding many others.
In previous documents, Posada alleged that
everything he did in Latin America, he did in
Washingtons name. He wants the jury, which is
to decide whether he is guilty of perjury, to
hear all the evidence on March 1st and be made
aware of his close relationship with the CIA. He
also knows that the more he threatens to reveal
about his relations with the CIA, the more those
who conceal the skeletons in Washingtons closet begin to tremble.
In order to convince Judge Cardone that his
relationship with the CIA is relevant to the
trial in which he is being accused of being a
liar, Posada Carriles defense is that it was
the CIA who taught him how to lie. Hmmmm.
Machetera is a member of
<http://www.tlaxcala.es/>Tlaxcala, the
international network of translators for
linguistic diversity. This translation may be
reprinted as long as the content remains
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Posada Carriles word games fall flat in El Paso
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 05:02 AM PST
The Judge Presiding Over the Case of the
Terrorist Posada Carriles Reacts to His Legal
Technicality -
<http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/01/25/la-jueza-del-caso-posada-carriles-reacciona-ante-un-tecnicismo-legal-del-terrorista/>Español
By Jose Pertierra
Translation: Laura Boué and Machetera Tlaxcala
Kathleen Cardone, the U.S. judge who dismissed
the first case against the terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles, accusing the Government of having
engaged in fraud, deceit and trickery in his
immigration interview and who later took up the
legal case against him once again, has just
opened an interesting window in the litigation.
In an order dated January 21, 2010, Cardone has
revealed part of the inner workings of the case
that will be heard on March 1st in El Paso,
Texas, and whose documentation has until now been
kept under seal and the strictest secrecy.
The judge has just published a document which
openly cites a motion by Posadas attorney to
disallow Count One in the new trial, which
accuses him of having made false declarations
when he denied asking other people to carry out a series of bombings in Cuba.
Cardones document reveals that Posada does not
deny having participated in a conspiracy to
explode bombs in Havana in 1997, one of which
killed the young Italian Fabio Di Celmo in a bar
at the Hotel Copacabana. But he does not accept
guilt for the homicide either. His defense is a
legal technicality that the judge, through this order, absolutely rejects.
Count One has to do with a question that an
immigration official posed to Posada in 2005:
Are the comments true that you made (to a
journalist) for an article in the New York Times
in which you admitted soliciting other people to
carry out these explosions? Posada responded in
the following manner: I am saying that is not
true. The prosecutors suggest that this answer
is false and constitute perjury. Posada alleges
that the answer is literally correct, because the
article in the New York Times and the tape
recordings made by the journalist Ann Louise
Bardach do not include the word
solicit. Consequently, Posada repeats, his answer is literally correct.
The motion presented by Posadas attorneys did
not convince Judge Cardone, who unequivocally
declared that the question by the immigration
official is not dependent on the word
solicit. The sense of the questions that were
asked of Posada is not dependent on the precise
use of that word. In other words, Posada knew
very well that the immigration official who
interviewed him in relation to his application
for residency in 2005, wanted to know if Posada
denied having been involved in the 1997
conspiracy for having exploded bombs in hotels
and restaurants in Havana in that year.
The person who carried out the murder of Fabio Di
Celmo is a Salvadoran named Rene Cruz Leon, who
admitted having placed at least six bombs in
Havana, including the one that killed the Italian
tourist. Cruz Leon confessed his crimes, was
tried in Cuban courts and in 1999 was sentenced
to death. Currently he is a prisoner in the Guanajay prison in Cuba.
Cruz Leon says that the person who recruited him
and gave him the explosives is a Salvadoran named
Francisco Chavez Abarca, one of Posada Carriles
employees in El Salvador. A 1997 Miami Herald
investigation revealed that Luis Posada Carriles
recruited Chavez Abarca for a terrorist campaign
against Cuba and that he in turn recruited Cruz
Leon, who says he was promised $2,000 for every
bomb that was set off in Havana. After Cruz Leon
was arrested, Posada Carriles said, Hes not a Cuban. He did it for money.
Another of the material authors of the terrorism
against Cuba in 1997 is the Salvadoran Otto
Rodriguez Llerena, also openly linked with Luis
Posada Carriles, who operated under the name of
Ignacio Medina. He admitted that hed been
promised $1,000 for each C-4 bomb detonated. My
mistake was in letting Posada Carriles use me,
Rodriguez Llerena told the Miami Herald journalist Jim DeFede in 2005.
Posada Carriles defense argument oscillates
between a technicality relative to the use of the
word solicit, and the fact that everything the
terrorist did prior to that in Latin America was
done in the name of his employer, the CIA.
The Federal court in El Paso is not falling for
the legal technicality, and it has not allowed
him to use the CIAs name in his defense. But
those who will make the decision about his
innocence or guilt are, nevertheless, the jury,
Judge Cardone concluded in her order.
Its worth recalling that the trial against
Posada is not for murder in relation to the
killing of Fabio Di Celmo. Nor is it about the
terrorist campaign against Cuba in 1997, nor
about the mid-air explosion of a plane full of
passengers on October, 1976, for which there is
an abundance of proof of Posadas participation
as its intellectual author. The prosecutor is
charging him with having lied to U.S. government
officials during the immigration process
undertaken by Posada upon arriving in the United
States, illegally, aboard the Santrina yacht in March of 2005.
He is strictly being judged as a liar in order to
give the impression that something is being
done against terrorism. Meanwhile, the
extradition request presented by Venezuela on
June 15, 2005 remains pending. Until now
President Obama has paid it no attention, just like President George W. Bush.
Laura Boué and Machetera are members of
<http://www.tlaxcala.es/>Tlaxcala, the
international network of translators for
linguistic diversity. This translation may be
reprinted as long as the content remains
unaltered, and the author and translators are cited.
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