Judge: FBI informant to testify in Posada case

[Mika]

Source: Miami Herald

A federal judge in Texas has denied the U.S. government's bid to block the testimony of an FBI informant in a pretrial hearing in the fraud case against Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles.

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The 78-year-old former CIA operative is appealing his pretrial detention at a hearing Tuesdayin El Paso, Texas.

The indictment, filed in January, is built on a statement given to the FBI by an informant who said Posada entered the country on a shrimping boat called Santrina manned by Posada's benefactor, Miami real estate developer Santiago Alvarez. Among the others on board was the FBI informant, Gilberto Abascal.

Posada's attorney, Arturo Hernandez, subpoenaed Abascal to testify at the pretrial hearing. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone denied the government's motion to quash the subpoena on Thursday, so Abascal will have to testify publicly for the first time. ''We're going to have a full-blown hearing,'' Hernandez said.
Posada's trial is set for May 11.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/884/story/57672.html

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Posada's benefactor, Miami real estate developer Santiago Alvarez, is awaiting trial on illegal weapons charges.

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[acmavm]

1. They need to all be sent back to Cuba. Or in Posada's case,

let Venezuala deal with the bastard.

[Mika]

2. "They"? "all"? Please expand.

[acmavm]

4. Posada-Carilles, Bosch, the whole damn rat's nest of terrorists

that the Reagan/Bush I admins let into this country.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The FBI informant, Gilberto Abascal, will need to be ready to move out of the area,

and fast. He knows he is dealing with a group of thugs who have crossed international borders to assassinate people, even working for the Chile-based assassins organization, Operation Condor, which bombed the Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Moffit, killing them and injuring her husband on the streets of Washington, D.C., in broad daylight.

They will definitely be hot on his trail for helping to bring a bomber/mass murderer to justice.

Luis Posada Carriles should NEVER have received the pardon from the vile puppet Panamanian President, Mireya Moscoso, _Bush lackey.



New Miami resident, former Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso