Posada trial witness: Yacht brought Posada into U.S.

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Posada trial witness: Yacht brought Posada into U.S.
By Juan O. Tamayo | The Miami Herald

A Miami FBI informant and alleged Cuban intelligence collaborator testified Monday at the trial of Luis Posada Carriles that he helped smuggle the anti-Castro militant by sea from Mexico to Miami.

Gilberto Abascal is one of the prosecution's star witnesses in one set of charges against Posada: that he lied under oath when he told U.S. immigration officials he slipped across the Mexican border into Texas.

But Abascal's own tale is almost as intriguing as that of the 82-year-old Posada, a former CIA operative and veteran of dozens of violent plots, including nine bombings of Cuban tourist spots that killed one man in 1997.

Abascal testified he was aboard the yacht Santrina when it picked up Posada, who had lived for decades, in Mexico's Caribbean resort of Isla Mujeres and took him to Miami in 2005.

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/25/107351/posada-trial-witness-yacht-brought.html

[Billy Burnett]

1. Judi, you figured it out in 2005.

You put the pieces of the puzzle together long before anyone else that I can remember. :applause:

[Judi Lynn]

2. That arrival "across the border" never did smell right, did it, Billy Burnett? Jeez.

Oh, no! An original first wave "exile" always has to arrive in style! One must consider one's "image!"

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