An FBI informant who is a key witness against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles discovered a pipe bomb attached to the bottom of his pickup truck Sunday and drove it to the Hialeah Police Department, law-enforcement authorities say.
Gilberto Abascal -- whose testimony also helped convict anti-Castro activists Santiago Alvarez and Osvaldo Mitat on weapons charges -- somehow spotted the device strapped to the undercarriage of his red 2005 Ford F-150 truck while he cruised around Hialeah, two federal investigators familiar with the incident said.
PHOTO: ABASCAL
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/front/16485137.htm
Obviously, the man is not satisfied with being a snitch; he also wants to be a "martyr." And how fortunate that he found the bomb under his car and how odd that he drove the car to a police station rather than evacuate it and call the police. I guess he had something to prove. My question is: was it a dummy? The bomb, that is.
Posted by: Manuel A. Tellechea | January 19, 2007 at 04:55 PM
Thank God Gilbert is ok. This just goes to show you there are terrorists & murderers among the ultra right wing Cuban exile population.
Posted by: curt | January 19, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Abascal certainly did not intend that he should be anything but "alright."
Posted by: Manuel A. Tellechea | January 20, 2007 at 02:43 AM
Abascal may have placed the bomb himself in order to try to make a point.. The fact that he got in the vehicle with a bomb under it and drove it makes me suspicious of his motives.
Posted by: l garcia | January 24, 2007 at 09:34 AM
This man is a snitch? What are those who inform on Arab terror cells here? Are they also snitches? Possada is a terrorist and a CRIMINAL who entered this country ILLEGALLY. Have we forgotten "Pusimos la bomba, ¿y que?"
Posted by: ElDuende | January 25, 2007 at 12:31 PM