CUBA: Brother of man killed in Havana hotel terrorist explosion writes letter to AG Eric Holder

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(Circulated by the CubaNews list)

PLEASE CIRCULATE Open letter from Livio Di Celmo to Attorney General

February 5,2009

Hon Eric Holder Secretary of Justice U.S Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington ,DC 205300-0001 OPEN LETTER

Dear Mr. Holder, I am writing to you as the brother of Fabio Di Celmo,
an Italian citizen and Canadian resident who died in a terrorist
attack in Havana, Cuba, Sep 4th 1997, at the Copacabana Hotel, one of
many terrorist attacks that year against Cuban tourism installations.

It has been documented and proven beyond any doubt that these
terrorist attacks were the work of Central-American mercenaries hired
by US based, rightwing Cuban-American individuals and organizations
that sought to disrupt the flow of tourism to Cuba with a campaign of
terror. A mercenary from El Salvador was arrested by the Cuban
authorities shortly after my brother Fabio bled to death with his
throat pierced by shrapnel from the bomb which exploded in the Hotel
lobby.

Further investigations and confessions have linked this individual
with notorious international terrorist Louis Posada Carriles who
himself admitted to being the mastermind of the bombings in a 1998
interview with the New York Times.

Louis Posada Carriles, (former CIA agent, narcotics trafficker, close
associate of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) founders,
and trained in explosives and assassination at Fort Benning) has also
been linked to the 1976 Cubana Airlines bombing off the coast of
Barbados in which 73 passengers died in a mid-air explosion caused by
bombs placed in the airliner washrooms. He is wanted in Venezuela in
connection to this act of terrorism. Venezuela's extradition request
has so far been ignored by the US government.

In 2000, Louis Posada Carriles was arrested in Panama while plotting
to blow up, with C4 explosives, the Panama University's main
auditorium where Cuban President Fidel Castro was to attend an
international event. He was illegally released in 2004 (as recognized
later by Panama Supreme Court) by corrupt Panamanian authorities,
under pressure from the US government. Since the new government of
Panama considers his release illegal it has announced its intention to
request his extradition. Posada Carriles entered the USA illegally in
2005, was arrested on immigration charges and then released by a Texas
court order. He is now living free in Miami, never being recognized as
a terrorist by the US government.

Mr Holder, let me assure you that most of those who have lost a
relative, a loved-one through an act of terrorism, once they have
passed the initial shock and mourning period, begin to be driven by an
overwhelming need to know "who, what and why" is behind the terror
which caused a loss of someone they love.

I embarked on such a journey of research.

I soon discovered that since 1959 there have been over 3000 innocent
people killed by terrorist acts in Cuba - directly and indirectly
planned and financed in the USA; that your own institutions - the FBI
included - have been and are infiltrated by individuals linked to
Cuban-American terrorists; that in your Congress are people such as
Ileana Ros Lethinen and the Diaz-Balart brothers who openly support
these terrorists and call their exploits" patriotic acts." I found out
that other individuals with terrorist backgrounds are allowed to live
free in Miami (such as Orlando Bosch, also involved in the 1976 Cubana
Airline bombing) ,together with dozens of terrorists who are members
and sympathizers of terrorist organizations operating in Florida such
as Commandos F-4, Alpha66, Omega 7. These fanatics have paramilitary
camps in the Everglades where they practice their terrorist skills. I
also found that other individuals, like Santiago Alvarez who brought
Posada to the US in 2005 and was caught by your authorities with an
arsenal of explosives and weapons, are given extremely light sentences.

The list goes on and on.

The financing for the 1997 bombings in Cuba has been traced to
Cuban-Americans based in New Jersey; a Grand Jury investigation is in
effect but it never seems to come to a final conclusion although there
is plenty of evidence available.

Logically, I came to the conclusion that indeed the US government has
kept a blind eye on these terrorists thriving in Florida and elsewhere
in the US. This has been allowed to go on for too long. Thousands of
innocent lives have been lost. The new administration of President
Obama must deal with these issues if your country expects to enjoy any
credibility at all in regards to fighting terrorism.

To add insult to injury, I was to discover that in 1998, the US
government arrested five Cuban individuals in the US who had
infiltrated and were monitoring these same terrorist groups
responsible for attacks against Cuba, in order to prevent terrorist
acts such as the one that killed my brother. These five men are now
known worldwide as the Cuban 5.Their case is now before the Supreme
Court because their trial was illegal and biased. Their charges
(conspiracy to commit espionage) are outrageous and so are their
sentences. These five men were doing something that the US Government
neglected to do: stop terrorism against Cuba originating in the US.

Millions of people around the world are watching this case closely.

I am confident Mr. Holder that you are familiar with this case and I
suggest you examine it thoroughly and work towards correcting this
injustice and also thoroughly investigate and prosecute those in your
government which have allowed this unbelievable injustice to happen.
For God'sake,your country has actually jailed people for trying to
prevent and stop terrorism!!

With relation to Louis Posada Carriles, my family and I demand his
immediate arrest (his associates and benefactors investigated). He
should be deported to Venezuela, Panama or anywhere else the call for
justice comes from.

We appeal to you to help us obtain justice for the murder of my
brother and all the victims of Posada Carriles and associates.

I am confident Mr Holder that you would agree with the concept that
when we speak of terrorism, there cannot be any double standards. This
time, the evidence speaks for itself, there is a double standard and
the sentence "whoever harbors a terrorist should be considered a
terrorist" is in this case appropriate.

I and my family have in the past sent similar appeals to your
predecessors seeking justice, asking the US government to once and for
all brand Louis Posada Carriles a terrorist and treat him as such. We
have never even received a reply.

This open letter has the intention of reaching out to those
individuals in this new administration who may have the courage and
the vision to correct the mistakes of the US government with relation
to Cuba (and many other parts of the world) and work for peace and
justice. Are you such an individual?

Sincerely,

Livio Di Celmo, brother of Fabio Di Celmo (1965-1997)

[Judi Lynn]

1. Any guesses on what Eric Holder's response will be to Livio Di Celmo's open letter?

It was easy for the _Bush administration to ignore his plea for justice. Justice is completely subjective for Republicans, always coming down to what do they gain from it. Nothing else. The idea of equality among people, a world in which people respect others is entirely foreign if there's no allowance for their ability to manipulate, control others, and certainly murder them for their own benefit.

This Italian citizen (and his father, who also worked so hard to find "justice" for his murdered innocent son) has been insulted continually since 1997 by the country which gives haven to these monsters. _{George W. Bush} has coddled them, having one of them, Sixto Reinaldo Aquit Manrique, actually caught on Miami tv sitting in a small group behind him, as a guest of honor, during a _Bush barely intelligible speech.

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Sixto Reinaldo Aquit Manrique (aka, El Chino Aquit), sharing the platform with Bush in Miami, May 20, 2002. The UN Rapporteur cited Aquit firing a 50 caliber machine gun at a Cypriot tanker in Cuban waters in his 1994 annual report on human rights in Cuba.

_{George H. W. Bush} entertained another CIA/Iran Contra henchman bastard, Felix Rodriguez in the Vice President's home in Washington during Reagan's Presidency. Rodriguez is proud to show his visitors, his photos of him and _Bush when they visit his home, along with the watch of Che Guevara given to Guevara by his own father upon graduation from medical school, which Rodriguez palmed, stealing it right off Guevara's dead wrist.

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(Porter) Goss second on left, between CIA pilot-drug smuggler Barry Seal (third left) & CIA assassin Felix Rodriguez (front left), Cuban vice cop under corrupt Mob-run Batista regime became Iran Contra operative confidant of George H.W. Bush. Covering face w/his sport coat) Frank Sturgis, famous as Watergate burglar.

The Democratic Party, the target of the Cuban Watergate Burglars, doesn't have the same filthy relationship to the Cuban terrorists in New Jersey and Florida, although the corruption of some of them sends them streaking to Miami to court the gusano support every Presidential election, and some tools from other states showing up there in order to compliment them, sell themselves to the Batistianos, and haul off buttloads of campaign contributions, with promises to assist their own interests in Congress, like Robert Torricelli did before he was thrown out for corruption.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Related: Terrorists on the Run. Some Away From, and Others toward Bush

Terrorists on the Run. Some Away From, and Others toward Bush
Saul Landau
Progreso Weekly, 6 February 2003

If you had taken up terrorism as your life’s vocation, or even as a means to a political end, President Bush’s State of the Union would have put you into a state of terrible gloom. "We have the terrorists on the run", he boasted, "We’re keeping them on the run. One by one the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice". He referred to "3,000 terrorists arrested in many countries". He alluded to other terrorists killed by the forces of good.

"My God", the anti-Castro Cuban terrorist would say, "Bush seems serious about punishing terrorists or anyone even harboring a terrorist. My professional life is over. How will I make a living and God willing, overthrow Fidel Castro with force and violence? For 40 years I have plotted safely with my co-conspirators in the United States", he complains, "and now Bush, whom we helped elect by intimidating the vote counters in Dade County Florida and by voting ourselves early and often, rewards us by making such terrible threats against terrorists? Damn him and those crazy al-Qaeda Arabs as well! By crashing those planes into the twin towers and Pentagon, they gave terrorism a bad name".

Not so fast, I say to myself. President Bush excoriated the terrorists who had done the 9/11 deeds. He even called them "cowards", which I couldn’t quite understand. But he had a silent qualifying clause: terrorists who want to kill Castro, bomb Cuban targets, hijack Cuban planes or ships, or do any other kinds of violence against Cuba still have the green light from the White House.

Indeed, he, his brother Governor Jeb, from Florida, and his Attorney General John Ashcroft, have made a point of not only harboring, but actually coddling terrorists. On May 20, 2002, Bush specifically invited several notorious terrorists to hear his speech in Miami.

Orlando Bosch at first received an invitation to sit on the platform. Later, when one of his advisers discovered that Bosch had earned the FBI’s label of the Western Hemisphere’s most dangerous terrorist, the seating arrangement changed and Bosch got dis-invited off the platform and moved into the audience. Bosch claimed credit in an interview with the Miami New Times (see Oct. 4, 2001 for further reference) for helping to blow up a Cuban commercial airliner over Barbados in October 1976. The police caught him after he fired a bazooka at a Polish ship in the Miami Harbor in 1967. This former pediatrician has cared little about children’s health, but found his calling in violence and spent much of his adult life after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January, 1959 practicing that vocation.

More:
http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=archives_landau_run