ON stating that his client, Luis Posada Carriles, wished to stop testifying in order to avoid stepping into sensitive areas that could harm the security of the U.S. government or other countries, attorney Matthew J. Archambeault confirmed that the international terrorist should testify at a new trial for the five Cubans, arrested for having infiltrated terrorist organizations, according to U.S. analyst Arthur Shaw.

In comments published on the web site VHeadline – www.vheadline.com – Shaw, known for the frankness of his language, is urging Posada to reveal everything he knows. He says that Posada conveniently used his asylum petition withdrawal to remind the world that he had "sensitive" information that could embarrass the U.S. "We already knew this...or, at least, we suspected it. But thanks, Luis Posada, for confirming it," Shaw writes ironically.

In what was considered veritable blackmail of the U.S. government, Miami lawyer Matthew Archambeault also said in a press conference that Posada "knows a lot ... and if he talks it could hurt the FBI, the CIA and the government in general."

Shaw affirms that Posada had ingeniously and conveniently found an opportunity to increase his desirability as a witness in a new trial for the Five, adding that in El Paso, Posada had withdrawn his asylum application for the second time. He had already done so in Miami weeks before.

Shaw invites the terrorist to "find an opportunity" to provide more clues as to the nature of that "sensitive" information.

He urges him to speak up again: "We’re watching! We’re listening!"

Several commentators were surprised by the scandalous blackmail exhibited by Posada and his lawyers during that bizarre hearing at the immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas before Judge William L. Abbott.

According to Wim Dankbaar, a Dutch expert on the Kennedy assassination, Posada’s association with that crime in Dallas is what most worries the U.S. administration.

Dankbaar, the author of one of the best-documented web sites on that issue (jfkmurdersolved.com), told Granma International that Posada is now openly doing what he said he would do at the beginning: blackmailing the Bush Administration in order to obtain protection. The most sensitive information has to be the fact that he was present at Dealey Plaza, and knows everything about Kennedy’s assassination and Bush Sr.’s role in it, Dankbaar affirmed.

"This man would have been eliminated like Lee Harvey Oswald if he didn’t have some real evidence up his sleeve to publish if he dies," he affirmed.

THE CIA "SENT EXPLOSIVES AND DETONATORS"

Over the course of the years, Posada has bragged on several occasions about his crimes. His affirmations are certainly worth repeating in front of a judge.

In his autobiography, Los Caminos del Guerrero (The Paths of a Warrior), Posada explains how in the 1960s, "our American friends trained us and coached us in the use and management of weapons, explosives and incendiary devices. (...) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) would send explosives (C3), automatic timers, fuse, detonating wires, detonators and everything necessary for sabotage actions."

In another chapter, Posada adds, with surprising frankness: "Years ago, the country’s trumpeted neutrality was not violated when they were training us to invade Cuba; neither was that the case when the Central Intelligence Agency infiltrated commandos and saboteurs into Cuba, carrying weapons and explosives for their actions."

On February 7, 1992, when he was interrogated by two FBI agents in office No. 426 of the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Posada made another important confession.

He revealed several new elements regarding his participation and that of his main accomplice, Félix Rodríguez Mendigutía, in the enormous drug and arms-trafficking operation that he had mounted under the orders of Colonel Oliver North and the Reagan/Bush administration.

In this 31-page declassified FBI document, Posada told investigators that Rodríguez constantly used to call Donald Gregg at the office of Vice President George Bush Sr.

He said he knew so much about that fact for the simple reason that he personally paid the telephone bills!

George Bush Sr. not only denied that his office was involved in those criminal operations, he also decorated Rodríguez Mendigutía, whose silence before an investigative commission saved him.

The scandal involved Oliver North, Donald Gregg, John Poindexter, Elliott Abrams, Otto Reich, Richard Armitage, John Negroponte, Mitch Daniels and other accomplices of George Bush in the empire’s war on Nicaragua. Several of them are or have been members of the George W. Bush Administration...

In his confessions to The New York Times in 1998, Posada told journalist Ann Louise Bardach how he received financial help from Jorge Mas Canosa, the CIA agent charged by Bush Sr. with creating the Cuban-American National Foundation, and from Feliciano Foyo, the group’s treasurer, as well as Alberto Hernández, who succeeded Mas as president of the CANF’s board of directors.

The CANF then created a "security commission" or "military wing" charged with preparing and carrying out terrorist actions, which was successively presided over by individuals like "Alberto Hernández, Luis Zúñiga Rey, Horacio García, Roberto Martín Pérez and Francisco José Hernández, all of them currently among President Bush’s Miami "friends." The terrorists Guillermo and Ignacio Novo Sampoll actively participated in these activities, as did Posada himself.

Thanks to this logistic and financial help from the CANF and the tolerance of the FBI, within which Posada disclosed that he had at least two "friends" among those investigating Cuban-American terrorism, and with the help of the CIA, he was able to organize his 1997 terror campaign against Cuban hotel facilities.

"As you can see, neither the CIA nor the FBI bother me, and I stay neutral with them. Whenever I can help them, I do," Posada told the reporter.

Even though Bardach was at the El Paso hearing, prosecutors did not think it essential to request her testimony.

The terrorist, who is now demanding protection under the International Convention Against Torture, belonged to the CIA, which trained him in the handling of explosives and weapons, as he said during the hearing; now all he needs to do is provide more details on how he participated in dirty operations of repression against the guerrilla movements in Central America under CIA orders.

And how he tortured and murdered several people while he was chief of operations for the Venezuelan secret police (DISIP) in that country, where he had been placed, along with his buddy Joaquín Chaffardet, by the U.S. intelligence services themselves.

Giving in to the blackmail, the high-ranking bosses of federal prosecutors have ordered Jeanne Gariett Jackson, their disoriented representative in El Paso, to accept Posada’s withdrawal of his asylum petition, which would put an end to his threatening testimony.