Fred Salaff writes on www.fredsalaff.com: The judge has signed her verdict of “INNOCENT.” It has been 2 1/2 years of a nightmare, gross travesty of justice, loss of reason, separation from family and all the rest; but it’s finally over!

Now comes the request for the government to return my equipment and other belongings confiscated illegally at the time of my arrest, January 23, 2005. I have been told I am resilient and will bounce back. Perhaps this is true. [This week’s] news was certainly a good start on another chapter in my life.

I have to thank all my friends and supporters who believed in me from the beginning of this nightmare, my lawyers Dixsiana Lorena Acosta and Eugenio Morice for their excellent work, and to my family,