Nugget from Antonini's testimony (Maletinazo/Valijagate)

[Satyagrahi]

While I think that the case doesn't look good for the Venezuelan government and seems to reveal a shocking level of incompetence, this nugget from Antonini's testimony is just too funny:

Antonini, who lives in South Florida, said he was invited to board the flight from Caracas to Buenos Aires on the plane chartered by the Argentine government. He said he noticed the suitcase had been left behind and picked it up to take it through customs, even though he did not know it contained the cash.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9Awbdmy2MbrUsgADdyW9zP_g6oQD93CQM1G0

OMG!

:rofl:

BTW, this is how María del Luján Telpuk described the incident:

In various interviews here, Telpuk recalled asking a burly passenger named Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson what he had in his suitcase.

“Books and some papers,” he replied, Telpuk told the newspaper Perfil.

When asked to open the bag, Telpuk said, the previously composed Antonini Wilson began to stammer and act strangely.

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/17/world/fg-suitcase17

He did not know what was in the suitcase but "began to stammer and act strangely" when asked to open it?

Yeah.

:rofl:

[struggle4progress]

1. I'd bet Antonini is a US covert asset

[Peace Patriot]

2. Oh, yes, he is so a US (Bush) covert asset.

And either he is an example of the utter deterioration of U.S. covert ops under the Bushwhacks (I mean, can you imagine Valerie Plame getting caught in an airport with $800,000 in cash?), or that was the plan--that he would get caught.

Hard to say which, but, looking at Guido, I'd say he's mentally defective and incompetent, the way Bushwhacks tends to be (mirrors of their leader). Bush and Guido--paradigmatic tools of their Corpo/fascist masters. So I think Guido blew it. It's difficult to imagine how anybody could be that stupid, but look at Bush, and you begin to understand.

I tend to think that this absurd prosecution by the Bushbot U.S. attorney in Miami is Plan B (if not Plan C or D). If nothing else, they can score some headlines in the Miami Herald.