Jean-Guy Allard

SIX weeks after a travel agency specializing in travel to Cuba, Airline Brokers, was destroyed by a terrorist attack, without the slightest indication that a serious investigation was underway, the FBI released to the press several blurry photos, taken by a nearby security camera, of a suspicious vehicle passing the building.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicated that the "vehicle of interest" pictured was a station wagon or a hatchback, but did not further explain their hypothesis as to why the vehicle was passing the location as the fired raged or if the car belonged to the terrorist arsonists.

While U.S. intelligence claims to be able to photograph a license plate from satellites in orbit, the FBI photos are of such poor quality that one can only assume they are but a smokescreen, meant to give the appearance that the crime is actually being investigated.

Vivian Mannerud, owner of Airline Brokers, has not lost hope that the perpetuators will eventually be identified. She has even suggested that the terrorists turn themselves in, before they are arrested.

The fire, which reduced to ashes the agency’s offices at 815 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, in Coral Gables, occurred on April 27.

In a brief statement, the FBI asked for the community’s help in identifying the "vehicle of interest" but offered no other details about the progress of the investigation.

The car appeared around 3:30 am, driving along one of the side streets close to the travel agency.

Authorities are asking any one with information about the case to call the telephone numbers of the FBI; the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau; the Coral Gables Fire Department or the Florida Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigations.

With so many informants, collaborators, agents, gossips and good cameras available to the FBI, the Miami police and the CIA, it is hard to believe that no suspects have been detained or questioned.