2 Cuban Activists (aka terrorists) Plead Guilty

[DoYouEverWonder]

September 11, 2006, 9:01 PM EDT

MIAMI -- A prominent Cuban activist suspected of trying to procure arms for an attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow President Fidel Castro's communist government pleaded guilty Monday to a weapons charge.

Santiago Alvarez, 65, a wealthy developer and key benefactor of jailed Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conceal illegal weapons. A longtime Alvarez employee, 64-year-old Osvaldo Mitat, pleaded guilty to the same charge.

Their pleas came a day before jury selection was scheduled to begin for a trial before a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale. Alvarez and Mitat had both faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the original six-count indictment.

Under the plea deal, each now faces up to five years behind bars when they are sentenced Nov. 14.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-cuban-activist,0,450107.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines


These criminals are not 'activists', they are god damned terrorists.

This reminds me of Katrina, if your were black you were a looter, if you were white you were not.

[Vidar]

1. Good news, though Jeb has time to pardon his fellow terrorists.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. They might go to jail for 5 years

Why am I not impressed? There are pot smokers in jail for longer then that. We've got kids in Gitmo for 5 years, you've haven't even been charged yet.

So much for equal justice.

[Scurrilous]

3. In other terrorist news:

Posada should be released, magistrate tells judge

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/15496239.htm

In a surprise decision, a federal magistrate in Texas has recommended that Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles be released from immigration custody.

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"Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles should be released from immigration custody because the attorney general has not classified him as a terrorist and his continued detention runs counter to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling barring indefinite detention for foreign nationals who cannot be deported, a federal magistrate ruled Monday.

In a 24-page decision, U.S. Magistrate Norbert Garney in El Paso, Texas, wrote that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should put Posada under supervised release because the federal government had failed to find a country willing to take the 78-year-old exile, who has Venezuelan citizenship.

''The court recommends that petitioner's request for habeas relief be granted and that petitioner be released subject to the terms and conditions of supervised release,'' Garney wrote.

Garney's ruling is only a recommendation and will not lead to Posada's immediate release. He sent the recommendation to federal Judge Philip Martinez, who is expected to make a decision later -- either adopting or rejecting Garney's recommendation.

Posada's attorney, Eduardo Soto, told The Miami Herald Monday evening that he hoped Martinez would adopt Garney's ruling because ``normally the judge would accept the ruling of the magistrate who heard the case.''

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4. Bastards

That one needs its own thread.

If Bush is really interested in fighting terrorism, Posada would be sent back to Venezuala.

[nealmhughes]

5. Venezuela, Barbados or Cuba or any other country that finds him for

conspiring to murder, accomplice to murder and air piracy.

[Katzenjammer]

6. Agreed, he definitely should not be set free

If he refuses to go to one of the only countries willing to take him, then he should stay in prison.

If he weren't a known terrorist and psychopath, he wouldn't have any problem finding sanctuary.