Posada Carriles NOT GUILTY

[rabs]

El Tribunal de El Paso, Texas (sur) declaró inocente al terrorista confeso Luis Posada Carriles de los 11 cargos que tenía en su contra por perjurio y fraude migratorio, minutos después que en la tarde de este viernes comenzara la deliberación del jurado luego de escuchar el testimonio de 33 testigos durante 13 semanas.

Court finds him innocent of the 11 charges against him.


(looking for english version)

[EFerrari]

1. Disgusting. We're going to need a shovel for the corruption

just to get out of bed in the morning any time now.

[rabs]

2. English version

By ALFONSO CHARDY
[e-mail]
EL PASO, Texas -- After deliberating for about three hours, a jury of seven women and five men acquitted Luis Posada Carriles on Friday on all 11 charges in an indictment that accused him of lying about his alleged role in bombings in Cuba in 1997 and about how he sneaked into the country in 2005.

As soon as U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone read the unanimous verdict, Posada and his three lawyers merged into a tight embrace that lasted several seconds as the federal prosecutors sat without showing emotion.

The verdict was a surprise to many observers who had expected the jurors to deliberate for a few days before reaching a decision. The observers also expected the jurors to find Posada guilty on at least some counts. No one had predicted an acquittal across the board on all perjury and fraud charges.



http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/08/2157558/jurors-acquit-cuban-militant-posada.html#

[Judi Lynn]

3. We should have been more cynical, from the first. Then we wouldn't feel so sick!

This is such horrendous injustice.

Of course they'll be whooping it up in Miami, no doubt whatsoever. I'll bet this even generates one of their lovely loud driving around honking, sitting on cars, waving flags events. <gag>

Score a big one for the Batistianos.

The American people got to see their justice system make a colossal error. This man belongs in prison for the rest of his life. Everyone knows it.
Defensively, he claims, "I sleep like a baby." He won't, when his conscience catches up with him, and it will.

What do you want to bet the fact this guy is connected to international bombers/murderers had a small part to play in the jury's decision, anyway?

Would they dare convict someone whose friends could blow up their entire families and never get caught?

[rabs]

4. Before seeing your last sentence ...

"Would they dare convict someone whose friends could blow up their entire families and never get caught?"

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I posted the same thought in the LBN thread.

As for the guy who said Terry Nichols is a bigger terrorist than Posada -- to me that was so typical of provincial thinking so ordinary in this country.

Thought to tell him to enter in his calculator the 70,000 people killed in the Contra war as opposed to the 168 or so killed in Oklahoma City. But didn't want to get in a meaningless argument.

[Judi Lynn]

5. I missed your comment, I think. Was hurrying to respond to the clearly stupid remarks

which were visible in the opening lines! Quite a few, considering!

That Terry Nichols claim was painfully short-sighted. Clearly a lot of people have NO awareness of things beyond their own neighborhoods. It's sad. They don't pay attention, they don't have any curiosity, they don't look for answers as they seem to believe nothing matters beyond their own lives.

That intimidation factor has gotten the "exiles" everywhere, hasn't it? Holy smokes. Cross that with the CIA, and you could give some people nightmares. What a shrieking shame.

Very sad when the only bad things which happen are the things which happen to U.S. Americans, and the rest of the world doesn't matter, unless they are right-wingers, too!

[Billy Burnett]

6. Posada fought for freedumb. And we have it.

:argh:

[rabs]

7. So, are they celebrating on Calle Ocho and Versailles yet?

Listened to Perez Roura on Radio Mambi for a couple of minutes. He was saying it was a "great victory" for Miami Cubans and for "a great patriot."

That was as far as I could stomach.

Also, couple of snips from updated MH story

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U.S. marshals escorted jurors out the back of the courthouse and put them in a van, ensuring they did not speak to reporters. (WHY DID THE COURT NOT WANT THE JURORS TO TALK TO THE MEDIA?)

Posada has slurred his words since being shot in the face and losing part of his tongue during a 1990 assassination attempt in Guatemala. (DON'T REMEMBER THE DETAILS, BUT IT WAS BAD AIM BY SOMEONE.)

"I was never afraid that we were going to lose this case," Posada said, adding that he took his entire defense team out for dinner Thursday night before the jury even began deliberating

"We celebrated this yesterday," he said.

(DID HIS DEFENSE TEAM KNOW SOMETHING LAST NIGHT BEFORE THE JURY DECISION TODAY?)

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OT -- good to see you again. Hope all is well with you.

[Judi Lynn]

9. You've got that right. Freedumb, freedumb! n/t

[roody]

8. very sad

[EFerrari]

10. Peter B Collins had Robert Parry on yesterday

to talk about this case:, second half of the show:

http://peterbcollins.com/2011/04/13/andy-worthington-on-obamas-capitulation-on-gitmo-and-trials-robert-parry-on-acquittal-of-terrorist-posada/#more-3340