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</font><h2><b>School for liars<br><br>
</b></h2><h4><b>February 1, 2010</b></h4><font size=3><b>Posada Carriles
Tells the El Paso Court “I lied because the CIA taught me how.”</b> –
<a href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/opinion/2010/01/29/menti-porque-la-cia-me-enseno-dice-luis-posada-carriles/">
<i>Español<br><br>
</a>By José Pertierra<br><br>
Translation: Machetera – Tlaxcala<br><br>
</i>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.”<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
In previous documents, Posada alleged that everything he did in Latin
America, he did “in Washington’s 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 Washington’s
closet begin to tremble.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<b>Machetera is a member of
<a href="http://www.tlaxcala.es/">Tlaxcala</a>, the international network
of translators for linguistic diversity. This translation may be
reprinted as long as the content remains unaltered, and the author and
translator are cited.<br>
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</b><a name="2"></a>Posada Carriles’ word games fall flat in El Paso
<br><br>
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 05:02 AM PST<br><br>
<b>The Judge Presiding Over the Case of the Terrorist Posada Carriles
Reacts to His Legal Technicality </b>-
<a href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/01/25/la-jueza-del-caso-posada-carriles-reacciona-ante-un-tecnicismo-legal-del-terrorista/">
<i>Español</a><br><br>
By Jose Pertierra<br><br>
Translation: Laura Boué and Machetera – Tlaxcala<br><br>
</i>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
The judge has just published a document which openly cites a motion by
Posada’s 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.<br><br>
Cardone’s 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
The motion presented by Posada’s 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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, “He’s
not a Cuban. He did it for money.”<br><br>
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 he’d been promised $1,000 for each C-4 bomb
detonated. “My mistake was in letting Posada Carriles use me,”
Rodriguez Llerena told the<i> Miami Herald</i> journalist Jim DeFede in
2005.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
The Federal court in El Paso is not falling for the legal technicality,
and it has not allowed him to use the CIA’s 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.<br><br>
It’s 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 Posada’s 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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
<b>Laura Boué and Machetera are members of
<a href="http://www.tlaxcala.es/">Tlaxcala</a>, 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.<br><br>
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