President Obama, It's Up to You to Rectify This Injustice: Free The Cuban Five Anti-Terrorists!

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July 10-12, 2009

President Obama, It's Up to You to Rectify This Injustice
The Cuban Five: a Cold War Case in a Post-Cold War World
By JOSÉ PERTIERRA

The day the Court sentenced him to life imprisonment plus 10 years, in maximum security, Tony explained to Judge Lenard why Cuba sent him to the United States.

“Allow me to explain my reasons, your Honor, in the clearest and most concise way: Cuba, my little country, has been attacked, assaulted, and slandered, decade after decade by a cruel ,inhuman and absurd policy. A real terrorist war. . . . . Where have such unceasing ruthless acts been hatched and financed? For the most part, in the United States of America.”

Tony Guerrero was part of a team of agents that Cuba sent to Miami, tasked with infiltrating the Florida-based terrorist groups responsible for the murder of over 3,400 Cubans over four decades. The team did not seek to infiltrate U.S. government agencies, nor did it obtain any classified documents. Their purpose was to gather evidence, so that the FBI would arrest the terrorists.

In June of 1998, the FBI secretly met with Cuban government officials in La Habana. Without revealing how they had obtained the evidence, Cuban law enforcement officials shared with the FBI 175 pages of documents related to 31 terrorist attacks and plans that took place between 1990 and 1998, as well as the money trail (through New Jersey and Miami) that paid for those attacks.

Cuba also turned over audiotapes of 14 comprising conversations involving the mastermind of the campaign of terror, Luis Posada Carriles, as well as 13 video and audiotapes of Posada´s accomplices, which provided the details of their crimes. Thanks to Tony and his team in Miami, Cuba was able to provide the FBI with the names, addresses, telephone numbers, even the license plate numbers of the terrorists.

The FBI thanked Cuba for the evidence and promised to investigate. Investigate they did, but the result was unexpected. Rather than arrest the terrorists, the FBI used the evidence that Cuba gave them to arrest the Five.

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