http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2005/10/22/23542/882
Another
document, dripping with blood, surfaces in House of Death case
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Sat Oct 22nd, 2005 at 11:54:02 PM EST
Earlier this month, Narco News
reported
that a cover-up of a mass murder case in Mexico goes all the way to the
top of the U.S. Department of Justice.
The administrator of the DEA, Karen Tandy, in court testimony
confirms that she briefed
then Attorney General John Ashcroft on the murders and the
participation of a U.S. government informant in those homicides.
Recently, current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confirmed
that he, too, is aware of the mass murder case but declined to confirm
whether any investigation has been launched into the complicity of
federal agents and a U.S. prosecutor in those deaths.
In the case, dubbed the “House of
Death,”
an informant, under the supervision of U.S. law enforcers, is accused
of participating in torturing and murdering a dozen people in a house
in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. The homicides were
allegedly allowed to play out between August 2003 and mid-January 2004
so that the law enforcers — Homeland Security agents and a U.S.
prosecutor — could make a drug case against a Mexican narco-trafficker
named Heriberto Santillan-Tabares.
In the wake of this gruesome fiasco, a cover-up was hatched
within the
Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. Part of
that cover-up has included retaliating against a DEA whistleblower,
Sandalio Gonzalez, who has sought to
expose the cover-up.
Now, Narco News has obtained a critical document that brings
you inside
the House of Death, from the point of view of the informant, code named
Jesus Contreras. The document is a debriefing of the informant carried
out on Feb. 12, 2004, by an assistant legal attaché for the Attorney
General’s Office of Mexico.
Following, then, is a glimpse of the type of people that our
federal
government got in bed with to make a drug case, and who now continue to
be protected (a number of the killers remain at large) due to a
cover-up that implicates the highest-ranking law enforcement officials
in the United States.
From the debriefing of the informant Contreras:
Another execution that I remember was on September
11,
2003, when I was in Chicago, Illinois. Santillan called to tell me that
they needed the house, referring to the Parsioneros house [in Juárez],
to “grill some meat,” [kill someone] so I called Alex to take care of
this. Upon returning from Chicago both Alejandro Garcia Cardenas and
Santillan mentioned to me that they had killed a person because a mule,
in other words a person who took drugs across the border, had been
arrested on the bridge as he tried to take a load of drugs and that
this person who was arrested sent his wife to ask him for money to pay
for a lawyer and instead of giving her the money the dead person
[killed later by Santillan and his goons] killed the wife and the girl
who was three (3) to five (5) years old. I believe that Luis Portillo
or maybe Vicente Carrillo Fuentes gave the order and Santillan executed
the order in order to earn merit in that organization, as he has always
been willing to do these kind of jobs.
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in San Antonio would later cut a plea
deal with Santillan, dropping all murder charges against him.
Conveniently, the plea deal also assured that there would be no trial
exposing the complicity of federal agents in allowing their informant
to participate in those murders.
From another part of Contreras’ debriefing:
At that point, [Mexican state police commander
Miguel]
Loya told them to lift their shirts over their faces so they wouldn’t
see the boss [Santillan]. At that point, Loya put tape around their
head, but they could still breathe and one of them began to moan loudly
so Loya shot him in the head with a pistol with a silencer, but he
didn’t die immediately. Upon hearing this the other one began to
struggle and was shot in the head as well. After they were dead Alex
and I put them under the staircase of the Parsioneros house and later
they were buried. These were killed because they were careless with
their work taking the drugs across the border.
… Later on Monday, December first (1), [2004] I went to the
Parsioneros
house and saw two (2) corpses and I asked Alex what had happened and he
told me that on Sunday November 30, 2003, they were brought by the
commander Loya [who oversaw the House of Death for Santillan], along
with Perez, Erick Cano and another five (5) judicial police as well as
Santillan. That later Saddam and a guy nicknamed Clinton, who is
Saddam’s nephew, arrived. They were kicking them on the floor until
they killed them. Saddam also hit them with a pistol and Alex gave him
a hammer to hit them because Saddam wanted to shoot them with a pistol
but that would make too much noise.
Homeland Security and Justice Department officials also seem
to be
concerned about too much noise being made in the House of Death. How
else do we explain the fact that they have chosen to put a silencer on
mass murder, killing any hope of justice for the victims?
To read the entire Contreras document, go to this link.
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