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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 01:02 AM
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American-trained Salvadoran death squad soldier arrested in L.A.
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/nation_world/story.asp?ID=156422

LOS ANGELES – Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos was a decorated, American-trained officer in the Salvadoran army.

But for the last year, the 43-year-old toiled away as a janitor at a West L.A.-area motel, a man with a secret who was always looking over his shoulder, his common-law wife said.

His clandestine existence came to an end Wednesday, when federal authorities announced his arrest – branding him a human-rights violator who was in the U.S. illegally. snip

The killing of the priests created a worldwide furor in part because Guevara Cerritos and the other assailants received training from the U.S. government, even traveling for courses at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga.

The bloodshed occurred before dawn, Nov. 16, 1989, at the rectory of El Salvador's Jesuit-run university. All but one of the priests were in nightclothes and slippers when they were shot. A dormitory cook and her teenage daughter were also killed.

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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 01:13 AM
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1. So, now can we arrest the mofos who ordered the training?
Oh, wait. They're running our government.

oops.
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roody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 01:34 AM
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2. Tune in to a wonderful protest against them
at Fort Benning GA the weekend before Thanksgiving. It is worth some financial sacrifice to participate in this vigil. www.soaw.org
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 01:47 AM
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3. Hey -- I watched one that was documented and aired on LInkTv.
Edited on Fri Nov-03-06 01:47 AM by sfexpat2000
:yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock: :yourock:
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