Jailed Leader of Police Unit Lays Blame on Pinochet

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 15, 2005
SANTIAGO, Chile, May 14 (AP) - The commander of the secret police under Gen. Augusto Pinochet said in a court document that General Pinochet was responsible for abuses committed by the police, his lawyer said Friday.

The retired commander, Gen. Manuel Contreras, also submitted a document to the Supreme Court discussing the fate of more than 500 dissidents who disappeared after being arrested by his force, said Juan Carlos Manns, General Contreras's lawyer. The report confirmed that many of the victims were thrown into the sea after being killed - a disclosure made last year by a presidential investigative commission.

Mr. Manns said his imprisoned client put the responsibility for the abuses on General Pinochet and the other military commanders. In the document, General Contreras said he was writing to counter "the permanent, ominous silence maintained by my superior," referring to General Pinochet.

The government said it would be up to the courts to determine the accuracy of the information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/15/international/americas/15chile.html

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1. Yeah, Pinochet had some help from a certain bunch of thugs and

criminals in this country as well.

Why is Kissinger still walking around free? Doesn't that fact make a lie out of the old adage "what goes around comes around"? Because if it were true, both he and Poppy would be burning in hell right now.

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2. that's why they desperately hanging on....

ironically, what's happening with newbush is kinda refreshing in this way: both oldbush and kissinger, not to mention legions of old style republicans who cheered on the nazipoo seizure of power way back in JFK murder days etc now must watch in horror as the very country they did all that evil stuff for becomes a truly ugly nasty brutish thing recognized the world over as the biggest danger to life and god, truth, honesty etc...haha! It looks good on them....if the old repubs faces were done up like a happy face on cards, it would be like the Simpson's episode where Bart's teachers started the report cards with a smiley face of new fresh innocence...as they whirred through a year's reports, the smiley became a dead stare then a frown became a grimace and a shocked look and so on until the smiley had transformed into a horrified freak....i imagine that's what's happened to the old men who pretended that they were doing a good thing by arranging recent US history as a series of walton mountain dramas lies in place of the unspeakable truth that the junior busheviks no longer try to hide.....
vile monkeys!
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