Venezuela reiterates request for Posada's extradition, so it can try him for bombing
*Text of official statement <http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/?act=ST&f=2&t=153782>by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry upon the acquittal Friday of Luis Posada Carriles. Translation is by Cuban Colada.* The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, expressing the sentiments of its people, expresses its greatest indignation <http://www.analitica.com/va/sintesis/nacionales/3535278.asp>at the performance of the show staged in the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, to continue to protect the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, accused and now acquitted in the trial that was held of the unusual charges of lying, obstruction of justice and illegal immigration, when in fact his crimes are related to proven acts of terrorism<http://www.radiomundial.com.ve/yvke/noticia.php?t=487231> . The Department of Justice of the United States of America, faced with the rejection and indignation aroused by this judicial farce, declares it is "disappointed" with the court ruling, but for more than five years has done nothing to permit the process of extradition requested by Venezuela and endorsed by the countless victims of the terrorist actions of Luis Posada Carriles. Posada Carriles' protection by the U.S. <http://www.tvcamaguey.co.cu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10313:denuncia-embajador-cubano-en-venezuela-infame-liberacion-de-posada-carriles-en-eeuu&catid=97:portada&Itemid=179>government has become emblematic of the United States' double standard in the international fight against terrorism. The ruling now official, the Bolivarian Government reiterates its request, addressed to the U.S. government since 2005, for Luis Posada Carriles to be extradited to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, where he must be prosecuted for the crime of premeditated murder, the product of the criminal investigation related to the terrorist attack that resulted in the assassination of 73 people aboard Flight CU-455, on 6 October 1976. To this effect, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry has summoned the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas to deliver to him on Monday, April 11, a diplomatic note that reiterates the request for extradition to Venezuela of Luis Posada Carriles and calls upon the Government of the United States to proceed immediately to submit said request to the judicial system of that country, in compliance with its extradition treaty with Venezuela. Luis Posada Carriles is a terrorist fleeing from Venezuelan justice, therefore the U.S. government has no alternative but to proceed in compliance with its international obligations, because otherwise it will again be guilty of complicity with terrorism. Caracas, April 8, 2011 Read more: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/04/venezuela-reiterates-request-for-posadas-extradition-so-it-can-try-him-for-bombing.html#more#ixzz1J8kA6tuu Venezuela accuses US of protecting Cuban militant Published April 09, 2011 | Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuela's government is accusing the United States<http://www.foxnews.com/topics/u.s.htm#r_src=ramp>of protecting a former CIA agent from facing justice for a 1976 airliner bombing after he was acquitted in a perjury case in Texas. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry is calling the trial of 83-year-old Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso, Texas, an act of "theater" put on by U.S. authorities "to continue protecting the terrorist." Venezuela wants to try Posada for planning the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. In a statement released Friday, the Foreign Ministry also condemned the U.S. government's lack of action on its extradition request. It said the top U.S. diplomat in Caracas would be summoned on Monday to reiterate the demand that Posada be turned over for trial. Friday, April 8, 2011 Miami lawyer was worth every penny in Posada Carriles case<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2011/04/miami-lawyer-was-worth-every-penny-in.html> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lUB15km9U0/TZ-E3YWq-sI/AAAAAAABFe4/BLcCbRtM7p4/s1600/posada-carriles.jpg> Ever tenacious Arturo Hernandez was relentless in his defense of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles and deserves much of the credit for Friday's verdict. Posada Carriles should also thank U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone, who allowed some of the evidence against the defendant to be excluded. The judge also permitted hundreds of documents in the case to be filed under seal, so the public may never know what really went on behind closed doors unless one of the lawyers writes a tell-all book. Prosecutors had the power and weight of the U.S. government behind them, they spent untold sums of money and still managed to lose what looked like a strong case. One of the accusations against Posada Carriles was that he lied about how he entered the United States. By the time the case neared its end, wire stories about the case didn't even give Posada Carriles the presumption of innocence on that point, flatly stating that the defendant didn't enter the country at the Texas border as he claimed, but journeyed to the U.S. by boat, reaching Florida. But prosecutors failed even to convince the jury on that simple point. Posada Carriles had his day - and weeks - in court and the jury found him not guilty. The jury has spoken, as the cliche goes. After all this, I wonder what Posada Carriles' immigration status is. Anyone know? Will U.S. authorities decide - or have they decided - that he can stay in the U.S. legally? Or is Posada Carriles still deportable because of violations of the law outside the country? Posted by Tracey Eaton at Friday, April 08, 2011<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2011/04/miami-lawyer-was-worth-every-penny-in.html> 0 comments<https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=8884194265556760945> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=8884194265556760945> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=8884194265556760945> Labels: acquitted<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/acquitted>, along the malecon blog<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/along%20the%20malecon%20blog>, luis posada carriles<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/luis%20posada%20carriles>, verdict <http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/verdict> Bardach: Jury didn't hear entire story<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2011/04/bardach-jury-didnt-hear-entire-story.html> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PGEIxH4zYOE/TZ9-uajUYNI/AAAAAAABFew/hXK7zXbSuuE/s1600/Desktop19.jpg> Ann Louise Bardach, a key witness in the perjury trial of Luis Posada Carriles, said jurors who acquitted the defendant today was not allowed to hear her entire interview with the anti-Castro militant or read articles she wrote about him. Bardach said in a statement: I have no opinion regarding how the jury should decide this case. My job - and that of co-author Larry Rohter, and the editors at the New York Times - was to accurately report what we learned from Luis Posada Carriles in June 1998. And we did that. Indeed, the Times vigorously fought this intrusion of the First Amendment for five years. My own concerns regard the First Amendment, the vital role of the press as the Fourth Estate, and the protection of sources. That would include Mr. Posada, regardless of his guilt or innocence. Regrettably, the courts overruled our objections and forced my testimony to authenticate redacted portions (less than half) of the tape-recorded interview of Mr. Posada, relating to three of the eleven counts. However, the Court did not allow the jury to hear the entire taped interview, or to read the actual articles published in the Times or to read either of the two books I later wrote using the Posada interview. The jury also did not have any of the notes or the scores of other interviews used in the Times series. Therefore, the jurys verdict, whatever it might be, would have no correlation to the Times' articles. I hope that this case will prove to be an aberration and that no other reporter need ever undergo this ordeal- which in my case lasted six days. Although Mr. Posada was not a confidential source, dragging reporters into court sets a dangerous precedent. Posted by Tracey Eaton at Friday, April 08, 2011<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2011/04/bardach-jury-didnt-hear-entire-story.html> 0 comments<https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=685359178222870333> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=685359178222870333> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=685359178222870333> Labels: along the malecon blog<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/along%20the%20malecon%20blog>, ann louise bardach<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/ann%20louise%20bardach>, luis posada carriles<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/luis%20posada%20carriles>, verdict <http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/verdict> Thursday, April 7, 2011 Snowplowing in Havana?<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2011/04/snowplowing-in-havana.html> U.S. lawmakers this week are wrangling over federal government finances. Past budgets contain oddities like this one: The U.S. Interests Section in Havana paid a New York snowplowing company $97,185, but it wasn't to clear the streets. U.S. officials hired D&M Snowplowing and Sanding Inc. to buy uniforms, a task that has nothing to do with the company's usual duties. Federal budget documents don't explain the unusual transaction. The company's phone number - (315) 764-1377 - rang through to a machine tonight. Records show two State Department transactions: - $73,640 for "RSO (Regional Security Officer) uniforms for guards" - signed Sept. 5, 2007. - $23,545 for "uniforms for employees" - signed July 13, 2010. D&M Snowplowing <http://www.manta.com/c/mmscmpb/d-m-snowplowing-sanding>, which shows an address of 11 Bowers Street in Massena, N.Y., has also received government contracts for snow removal (the timeline below shows the contracts). <http://fusion.google.com/ig/add?synd=open&source=ggyp&moduleurl=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/time-series-line.xml> Gadgets <http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets.html> powered by Google The company received the uniform contracts under the federal government's Simplified Acquisition Procedures, or SAP. The threshold for such purchases is usually $100,000<http://nawctsd.navair.navy.mil/Resources/Library/Acqguide/simplified-acquisition.htm>, but can rise to $5 million or higher under certain circumstances. The Division of Corporations, State Records and Uniform Commercial Code<http://www.blogger.com/The%20Division%20of%20Corporations,%20State%20Records%20and%20Uniform%20Commercial%20Code>in New York does not list a company called D&M Snowplowing and Sanding Inc. Google Maps<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=44.92341,-74.889204&spn=0.001278,0.002765&t=h&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all>show what looks like a residential home at the company address, not that there's anything necessarily amiss. <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vTMmQ_cpm6E/TZ5UWvmLnhI/AAAAAAABFeY/berqXZjJvSU/s1600/dm-map.jpg> 11 Bowers Street Posted by Tracey Eaton at Thursday, April 07, 2011<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2011/04/snowplowing-in-havana.html> 0 comments<https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=640181469093017956> <http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=640181469093017956> <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6569634614488600291&postID=640181469093017956> Labels: along the malecon blog<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/along%20the%20malecon%20blog>, DM snowplowing<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/DM%20snowplowing>, federal budget<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/federal%20budget>, havana <http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/search/label/havana> Read more: http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/#ixzz1J4sjurSz [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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