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Tony Abdo wrote:
> Ok, Ok. I know that this article from the Miami Herald doesn't
> identify either the doctor, nor the hospital, where the torture maestro
> received his medical treatment. That is, not directly. But it
> is a save guess that it is Houston's very own, M. D. Anderson. But
> why?
>
> Because this is the favored hospital of the Bush Klan, that's why.
> In all their myriad travels around the world on behalf of the government
> and the CIA, they never fail to inform their friends about the excellent
> quality of medical care available in their home state of Texas.
>
> Workers (servants) get to enter from a parking lot some distance away
> from this Grand Palace of Care. It's a walk past the Ronald McDonald
> House, and then an entrance into America's elite cancer treatment
> center. But keeping in the internationalst spirit of neo-liberal
> globalization, a sizable chunk of patients are not upper class
> Americans. They are upper class international associates insead!
>
> The in-house media comes on channel, in 5 different languages ! And
> the in-house press likes to front page their patron saints, most
> especially Barbara and George. This is a treatment center that
> seems especially popular with the Arab Emirate and Saudi sheiks.
> But plenty of patients can also be found, from places like Argentina,
> India, Mexico and Peru.
>
> I won't go into too much detail, but the facility is considerably more
> plush and CLEAN, than that in your neighborhood, Tex. One could
> almost describe the facility as palatial. Though, fortress-like also
> comes to mind, since a homey setting must be kept while the elite get
> their care.
>
> In case of a medical problem arising from the use of DU weaponry in your
> own little neck of the global woods, think M.D. Anderson, Cancer
> Treatment Center.
>
> Tony Abdo
>
> P.S. Note the $1,500 bail. Pretty steep for a major drug trafficker
> and assassin. They must have wanted to keep him in, real bad.
> But then he is.... a sick man. It's a case of the FBI's get tough
> on crime strategy, now tempered by 'compassionate conservatism'.
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> Accused aide of Peru spy master held in Miami
> BY MARIKA LYNCH
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Peru's second-most-wanted man wasn't difficult to find in South Florida.
> Víctor Alberto Venero Garrido -- a suspected arms dealer accused of
> skimming more than $100 million from a government pension fund -- had
> opened a $15 million bank account in his own name.
>
> Venero, an associate of Peruvian spy master Vladimiro Montesinos whose
> own scandal brought down the government of President Alberto Fujimori,
> was arrested on public corruption and money laundering charges after he
> tried to make a withdrawal at a Miami Citibank on Friday.
>
> On Monday, he asked a federal magistrate to let him out on bond because
> the stress was aggravating his rare form of lung and colon cancer. Jail
> guards ridiculed him when he told them he was bleeding from his rectum
> Sunday night, Venero told U.S. Magistrate Judge John J. O'Sullivan. A
> hearing will be held Friday, when Venero's Texas doctor will testify
> about his condition. He is being held at the Federal Detention Center in
> downtown Miami.
>
> His survival is important, Venero told the judge, because he has
> undergone an experimental treatment that can benefit others.
>
> ``The research will save other lives,´´ Venero said.
> MAINTAINS INNOCENCE
> The 47-year-old maintained his innocence Monday, but neither he nor his
> Miami lawyers, Walter Reynoso and Scott Srebnick, explained the origins
> of his Miami fortune. Venero's Peruvian attorney, Luis Roy Freyre, said
> his client has lived in the United States since 1998 when he began
> cancer treatment. He told The Herald Venero's money came from his
> construction and textile businesses back home.
>
> The controversy surrounding Venero's past touched the country's highest
> political official this weekend, when a report surfaced that Venero's
> family had given $30,000 to interim President Valentín Paniagua to
> cover costs for his congressional campaign. Paniagua went on national
> television Sunday night to deny it and called the allegation by a
> onetime Montesinos security guard ``an open and brazen conspiracy,´´
> the Lima daily El Comercio reported.
>
> SIGNIFICANT ARREST
> Apart from that, Venero's arrest is significant because it will aid the
> investigation into Montesinos, a top Fujimori advisor who left the
> country after a video showed him apparently bribing a congressman, said
> Gustavo Gorriti, a Peruvian journalist and author living in exile in
> Panama. The U.S. government's help in his capture also was noteworthy,
> Gorriti said, because Montesinos is known as a one-time CIA informant.
>
> According to court documents released Monday, the Peruvian government,
> which is seeking to extradite Venero, alleges he was Montesinos' most
> trusted ``bagman´´ or ``strawman.´´ Venero allegedly used his
> position as the ``de-facto´´ head of the country´s military and
> police pension fund to pilfer millions he then used to buy apartment
> complexes, hotels and buildings, the documents said. He would then sell
> the assets back to the fund, at inflated prices.
>
> Venero also helped Montesinos organize a scheme to sell substandard arms
> from Belarus and other countries to the Peruvian military at excessive
> prices, the documents said.
>
> $15 MILLION ACCOUNT
> The FBI was first alerted to Venero earlier this month when Venero's $15
> million account showed up on a routine check of required bank reports,
> said Frank Figliuzzi, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI in
> Miami.
>
> The Peruvian government officially charged him Jan. 19 and sent out a
> request through Interpol for help in locating him three days later. The
> FBI then tracked Venero to a house in Southwest Miami-Dade.
>
> Fearing Venero was about to transfer the money to another bank, the
> agency froze his assets Friday. The suspected arms dealer found out when
> he tried to withdraw millions at 10 that morning.
> He stayed at the downtown bank several hours, trying to figure out how
> to get the money, Figliuzzi said. He finally left a few hours later, had
> a drink at a hotel bar, then went home. About 11:30 that night, the
> agency arrested him at home.
>
> At first, the FBI believed Montesinos might be in tow. But the agency
> has no information that the former head of Peru's intelligence agency is
> in South Florida, Figliuzzi said.
>
> The FBI does have information, however, that Venero has a handful of
> other bank accounts around the country.
>
> ``There are many more millions involved in this case, and we are as I
> speak becoming aware of more millions elsewhere,´´ Figliuzzi said.
>
> This weekend's arrest was not Venero's first in South Florida,
> Miami-Dade Police say. Venero has an assault and battery charge stemming
> from a domestic violence incident the morning of July 16, documents
> show.
>
> He was arrested by Miami Beach Police at the Fontainebleau Hilton, 4441
> Collins Ave., in room 1076. Booking records show he was released the
> next day on $1,500 bond.
>
> Herald staff writer Elaine de Valle, Herald translator Renato Pérez
> and Rui Ferreira of El Nuevo Herald contributed to this report.
>
>
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