Karen
Lee Wald adds essential facts to the profiles
which the Miami Herald gave of the four terrorists
on August 27, 2004
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From: Karen Lee Wald [mailto:kwald@california.com] Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 10:57 AM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: The terrorists who were released: Miami Herald profiles of four released terrorists
[See my notes in brackets re corrections of this. Keep in mind that this list would make these men both reprehensible to most decent human beings, but would make them heroes to some people in Miami....and DC....kw]
From:
"Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@earthlink.net>
To: "CubaNews" <CubaNews@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 6:09 AM
Subject: Miami Herald profiles of four released terrorists
(Take the time to read these profiles by the Miami Herald, a publication which sympathizes with their goal of overthrowing the Cuban Revolution. Even in this profile you can see why outrage has spread all over against the pardon of these for criminals by a lame duck president in Panama. Much is left out, but it's remarkable what nevertheless remains here...) ================================================
MIAMI
HERALD
Posted on Fri, Aug. 27, 2004
4 VETERAN FOES OF CASTRO
Luis
Posada Carriles, 76
Explosives expert, trained by the CIA in the 1960s. Accused in the 1976 mid-air
bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people. Tried in Venezuela, he was
acquitted and escaped from jail in 1985 while awaiting a re-trial. He has denied
any involvement in the bombing. Both Cuba and Venezuela asked for his
extradition while he was jailed in Panama. He turned up in El Salvador after his
prison escape, working with a group linked to White House aide Col. Oliver North
that sent supplies to contra rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government
in Nicaragua. He claimed and then denied responsibility for a string of
terrorist bombings in Havana in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and wounded
more than a dozen others. [He claimed credit in a long
taped interview for the NY Times, in which he also said he got the money for it
from the Cuban American National Foundation --Mas Canosa et.al. Apparently CANF
was not pleased at this disclosure, so he subsequently backpedaled, said he had
just made that up. But his denial wasn't too convincing, since he was really
proud of what he had done. kw] He served in the security forces of
anticommunist governments in Guatemala and Venezuela and survived a 1990 murder
attempt in Guatemala City.
Gaspar
Jiménez, 69
A former Miami chauffeur, served six years in a Mexican prison for the attempted
kidnapping of Cuban diplomat Daniel Ferrer and the death* of a man accompanying
him -- described as either a bodyguard or a fishing expert -- in Mérida, Mexico
in 1976. He escaped from prison and returned to the United States. He was also
indicted -- though the charges were later dismissed -- for the 1976 bombing that
blew off the legs of Miami radio personality Emilio Milián. [*Notice
that when someone tried to give Posada his due, that was called a
"murder" attempt. But when Gaspar Jimenez shot and killed a Cuban
"bodyguard or fishing expert", the MH doesn't tell us he served a
prison term for "murdering" the man, but softpedals it as "the
death of....]
Pedro Remón, 59
A former Miami truck salesman, he was sentenced to 10 years in U.S. federal
prison in 1986 after pleading guilty to the 1980 attempted murder*of a former
Cuban diplomat at the United Nations, Félix García Rodríguez, He was also
linked to an attempted bombing of Cuba's U.N. Mission in 1979. [They
actually got this one wrong: he ATTEMPTED to murder Raul Roa Kouri, then Cuban
ambassador to the UN. He DID kill Felix Garcia, who was a lower level employee
of the Cuban Mission to the UN.]
Guillermo
Novo, 61
A former radio advertising salesman in New Jersey who later moved to Miami, he
was convicted of perjury in the 1976 car-bombing murder of former Chilean
diplomat Orlando Letelier* and an American aide in Washington, D.C. The verdict
was overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted in a second trial. He was
arrested in a 1964 bazooka attack on the U.N. headquarters during a speech by
Ernesto ''Ché'' Guevara, but the charges were later dropped. [*The
Novo brothers were actually part of the team that planned and carried out the
gruesome car-bomb murder of Letelier and Moffitt. The government let him off on
technicalities. See Saul Landau's and other books on the subject....] SOURCE:
Herald archives