Sunday 6 February 2011

El Paso Diary: Day 11 at the Posada Carriles Trial

By JOSÉ PERTIERRA, 2 February 2011.
Source: Counterpunch.com.

Judge Cardone at the Center of the Drama

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) scrambled to investigate complaints made this afternoon from the witness stand by a key witness at the trial of Luis Posada Carriles that a defense attorney for Posada is harassing his family, his friends and himself.

Gilberto Abascal, a handyman who was aboard the shrimp boat that brought Posada to Miami in March of 2005, testified that it is not true that Posada entered the United States through the border with Mexico with the help of a coyote in a pickup truck, as Posada said under oath at his prior immigration hearings. Abascal says that he saw Posada Carriles disembark in Miami from a boat called the Santrina.

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