"Everything you need to carry out a bloodbath," - Bay of Pigs 2

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Judge Denies Cubans Bail in Weapons Case
Officials say exiles' cache of machine guns, grenades and more was illegal.

By CURT ANDERSON
The Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE -- A federal judge rejected a second attempt by two Cuban exiles to win release on bail before their trial on illegal weapons and other charges, ruling Friday that they were too dangerous to be free because of the deadly military nature of the weapons.

The machine guns, grenades, grenade launcher, detonation devices and thousands of rounds of ammunition seized in the case amounted to "everything you need to carry out a bloodbath," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Hummel.

"These guns are offensive weapons under the law," Hummel said.

U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn sided with prosecutors, upholding another judge's ruling denying bail for Santiago Alvarez, 64, and 63-year-old Osvaldo Mitat. They are charged in a seven-count grand jury indictment with illegal possession of machine guns and other weapons -some with serial numbers erased -- that allegedly were stored at an apartment complex near Fort Lauderdale owned by Alvarez.

"These weapons have no utilitarian purpose other than to harm others," Cohn said.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051210/NEWS/512100368/1004

Santiago Alvarez is also under suspicion for bringing Luis Posada, another Cuban terrorist, into the US aboard his yacht last spring. Posada is still in detention in NM waiting for BushCo to decide his fate. Posada is asking for asylum since he's been a CIA asset for the last 40 years. In the meantime, his good friend Alvarez and a bunch of other Bay of Pigs alumni were training and hording weapons for one more try at getting rid of Castro. Looks like they blew it again.