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Officials Told of 'Major Assault' Plans (Some Terrorists Arrived via Cuba)
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/20/2001 | Richard A Serrano and John-Thor Dahlburg

Posted on 09/20/2001 5:58:13 AM PDT by HalfIrish

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON -- FBI and CIA officials were advised in August that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning "a major assault on the United States," a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday.

The advisory was passed on by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. It cautioned that it had picked up indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that Americans would be "very vulnerable," the official said.


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1 posted on 09/20/2001 5:58:13 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: HalfIrish
Geez, being an old intel weenie, I'd really like to know how much information was available prior to these acts of war. But second guessing doesn't do us a lot of good now.
2 posted on 09/20/2001 6:05:14 AM PDT by Coop
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To: HalfIrish
No, but you see our hands were completely tied on this. There was absolutely nothing we could do. We couldn't stop them coming across the Mexican border because, well, that simply isn't done. After all, if we stopped folksas they come across the border illegally, we surely find some carrying dope and to stop them would eventually inconvenience Mexican drug lords and cost Mexican politicians money.

Then would couldn't stop them coming north because that would involve the dreaded concept of profiling. Here, it would be racial profiling. No, our hands were tied. Thanks for thinking of us and if you have some information that involves evil, white Christians, we'll jump all over that. If it involves black or brown, illegals, gays, or women, geeze, there's not much we can do with it. But, thanks again.

3 posted on 09/20/2001 6:06:17 AM PDT by Tacis
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Afghans with Pakistani passports arriving from Cuba. Sounds like we should add Cuba to the list of "enablers" who we can attack. If only we had the stomach for it.
4 posted on 09/20/2001 6:07:26 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: Coop
I'm more focused on the Cuban involvement than the lapses. If we indeed mean it when we say we are going to attack them and their enablers, then Cuba should be on the enemies list.
5 posted on 09/20/2001 6:09:15 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: HalfIrish
Nice catch.
6 posted on 09/20/2001 6:20:20 AM PDT by First_Salute
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To: HalfIrish
"The advisory was passed on by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. It cautioned that it had picked up indications of a "large-scale target" in the United States and that Americans would be "very vulnerable," the official said."

I don't think it's a stretch of the imagination the Mossad caught wind of the schemes that were to go down here; but they knew-not when.

This story makes it sound as though these people came here recently via Cuba, Canada etc...which wouldn't have been hard given the ease of gaining access to our country?
It'd been my understanding many (if not all) of the perps had been living here for some time already before launching their attacks.

This story would be easy enough to check for validity by simply checking existing INS records in an effort at seeing exactly how long the principles involved in the attacks were actually here.

7 posted on 09/20/2001 6:22:48 AM PDT by Landru
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To: Cuba's Involved !!
bttt
8 posted on 09/20/2001 8:18:08 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: The Letter
Letter of August 29, 2001 to Radio Host:

Dear Mr. Walton,

I am a regular listener to your "Talk Today" program. I find it informative and a positive way of the citizens of this island expressing their views.

Mr. Walton we have an urgent situation with the three Afghanistan that we have in our midsts for the past months. I have been convinced that they are agents of Osama Bin Laden ­ one of the world's greatest terrorist ­ operating out of ­ you guessed it ­ Afghanistan. The three agents here are organizing a major terrorist act against the U.S. via an airline or airlines.

Their identity is difficult to establish for this reason. Why do you think they had funds on their persons when they were apprehended? Why do you think that their last country before they came to the Cayman Islands was Cuba?

I feel that the world will think this is the most unlikely place on Earth to launch an attack ­ the Cayman Islands. The agents are patiently organizing this attack while we fumble and stumble over the trivial thing as their identity.

These agents are allowing us to know just enough about them to keep on this island to accomplish their mission.

Remember this is probably the easiest and most informative place in this hemisphere to plan their attack.

Mr. Walton we need to pass on this information immediately to the authorities and refrain from being naive and complacent in this serious situation.

Yours sincerely,

A very concerned Caymanian

P.S. If we foil these agents' plans we may never know for sure why they are here, but if we allow this attack to be carried out this would be one of the greatest and most far reaching catastrophes for these Islands.

9 posted on 09/20/2001 11:52:53 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: Government Statement
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Immigration Alleges Afghans Entered Cayman Islands as Pakistanis

The three Afghanistans, who are the subject of an intensive investigation by US authorities the Cayman's security officials and now held in maximum security cells in H. M. Prison in Northward, were previously imprisoned for 10 months beginning in August 2000 to May 2001.

They were ordered released by Grand Court Judge Henry following a hearing of Habeas Corpus. 'a writ issued in order to bring somebody who was detained into court, usually for a decision on whether the detention is lawful'.

They have been returned to prison and are presently being held in custody following a letter written to Government by a local resident implicating them with the disastrous terrorist attacks on the United States of 11 September by "airline or airlines".

Statement by the Government of the Cayman Islands

The following statement is issued by the Government of the Cayman Islands regarding the three men now here alleging to be Afghan nationals:

The Government of the Cayman Islands expresses its shock and sadness over the tragedy in the United States. It pledges to provide all possible assistance to both U.S. and international law enforcement to assist in the investigation of this terrorist attack on our friend and neighbour.

There have been questions relating to the presence of three persons alleging to be Afghan in the Cayman Islands and an anonymous letter about them and their activities. Attached is a copy of the letter.

On 22nd August 2000, three men claiming to be Afghan nationals reported that they were dropped off in the Cayman Islands, having arrived here by ship from Turkey. The Royal Cayman Islands Police (RCIP) detained them at the Central Police Station. The Immigration authorities conducted interviews with the individuals (with the assistance of a visiting Iranian doctor who was able to translate) in an attempt to establish their identities. On 28th August 2000, the information was transmitted to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom (FCO). On 2nd October, the men were transferred to Northward Prison from the Central Police Station, where they had been in protective custody.

On 10th October, a further letter was sent to the FCO, indicating that the Government had considerable doubt concerning the account given by the men about their arrival in the Cayman Islands. It appeared likely that the men had arrived here on 20th August on a flight from Cuba using Pakistani passports. The Government questioned the validity of the Pakistani passports (which were never located), and the ultimate goal of the men concerning their presence in the Cayman Islands.

Since last year, the authorities have attempted to establish their identities. Interpol was contacted, but had no record of any of the individuals. Because the men claimed they had planned to go to Canada, a representative from the Canadian High Commission in Jamaica visited the Cayman Islands and met with the Chief Immigration Officer.

The Afghan authorities (in exile) in New York interviewed the men by telephone, and were satisfied that they were Afghan nationals. That office issued them temporary travel documents. These could not be used, as the individuals still required a visa from a country allowing the individuals entry. The men were asked to provide a list of people who might be able to verify their identities. The list was also passed on to the Afghan authorities in New York, but no response was made regarding the list.

Additional inquiries were made to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Neither responded. The British High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan, has also been unable to secure cooperation from Pakistani authorities. The numbers of the passports believed to have been used by the individuals was recorded by Immigration, but no Pakistani authority has verified the numbers or provided any information about them.

Based on complaints from the detainees, and at the request of the Cayman Islands branch of the Red Cross, the three men were moved to a less secure area of the prison on 27th April 2001. On 5th June 2001, the Cayman Islands Grand Court ruled that the men should be released pending determination of their application for political asylum. In its ruling, the Court stated that "there is no evidence that they are a danger to the public and fears as to their possible links with a terrorist organization have long since been dispelled." However, the Court concurred with immigration authorities that their version of how they reached the Cayman Islands was not credible.

Following that decision, the men were accommodated in a guest house in Grand Cayman, and have been required to report to Immigration authorities and the RCIP on a daily basis. They have complied fully. Efforts have been ongoing to establish their identities and potential options for relocation in the event that their request for political asylum is unsuccessful.

In August of this year, a Chief Immigration Officer from the United Kingdom came to the Cayman Islands at the request and expense of the Cayman Islands Government. The officer specializes in matters relating to Afghanistan and speaks Farsi. After interviewing the three men individually, the officer was satisfied that the men were indeed Afghan nationals. The officer did, however, state that she too was not satisfied with the Afghans' account of how they had arrived in the Cayman Islands.

On 29th August 2001, a letter was hand delivered by its author to Mr. Loxley Banks, the Director of Broadcasting of Radio Cayman. The letter was signed "a concerned Caymanian." The letter was incorrectly addressed to Mr. Joel Walton, who is not the host of "Talk Today." The host of that radio show is in fact Mr. Joel Francis. The letter was never read on the air, as Radio Cayman considered it speculative, and had heard similar allegations about the Afghans since their arrival.

Mr. Banks passed the letter to Acting Chief Secretary Donovan Ebanks on 6th September. There had been numerous complaints about the continued presence of the Afghans in the Cayman Islands, and Mr. Ebanks also considered this to be speculative. He was aware that the Government had made attempts to establish the identity of the individuals, and that those efforts continued following the Court decision. The Acting Chief Secretary informed Mr. Banks that the letter writer was welcome to contact him directly to discuss the matter.

The person who wrote the anonymous letter did not contact the Acting Chief Secretary or any other Cayman Islands Government or law enforcement official about the letter until 12th September, the day after the attack in the U.S. When formally interviewed that day by local authorities, the letter writer told them that the letter was "pure speculation" on his part.

Following the horrific terrorist attack in the U.S., Chief Secretary James Ryan transmitted the information to Police Commissioner David Thursfield on 12th September. The RCIP Commissioner was then in contact with the U.S. Consul on the Island and the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica. Representatives of the U.S. Embassy arrived in Grand Cayman on the evening of 12th September and departed on the afternoon of 15th September. While in the Cayman Islands, the US authorities received complete cooperation. They were provided with all documents and relevant information regarding the case of the Afghan nationals with a view to briefing the relevant U.S. investigating authorities.

The three Afghans have been in protective custody since 11th September and are now in Northward Prison.

The Cayman Islands Government has been actively cooperating with U.S. Embassy personnel, and will continue to do so. We welcome the presence of any and all international law enforcement authorities, for as long as necessary to resolve this matter.

Statement Ends

10 posted on 09/20/2001 11:56:13 AM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: Arrived From Cuba

STATEMENT by the HON. CHIEF SECRETARY

As everyone will be aware, three individuals claiming to be Afghan nationals arrived in the Cayman Islands just over a year ago. They possessed no form of identity. Local authorities, including the judiciary, as well as a senior United Kingdom immigration officer, have not been satisfied with the individuals' version of how they reached the Cayman Islands.

The relevant United Kingdom authorities, Interpol, and United Nations, authorities were all made aware of their presence here. Canadian authorities were also contacted initially as the individuals indicated that Canada was their intended destination.

After having been in the Cayman Islands for some four months, the individuals sought political asylum in the Cayman Islands.

Efforts have been ongoing to establish their identities and potential options for their relocation in the event of their request for political asylum being unsuccessful.

The three individuals have in recent months been accommodated in a local guesthouse following a Grand Court decision. They have been subject to daily reporting to immigration and RCIP authorities and some monitoring.

Turning now to a more current development, I wish to state that a copy of an unsigned letter of concern from a resident to the Talk Today' show was passed to the Acting Chief Secretary on 06th September.

The letter was treated as merely speculation on the part of the writer as to the potential risks to these islands of the three Afghans remaining here, as indeed many others have speculated since their arrival in August 2000.

The tragic circumstances of Tuesday, 11th September 2001, in the United States have naturally created grave interest in the contents of this letter, and the basis of those contents. Copies of that letter have subsequently been circulated in the Cayman Islands and seemingly outside the Cayman Islands.

The writer of the letter has now been interviewed and has stated that indeed the letter was purely speculation on his part.

The matter is nevertheless under investigation and U.S. authorities are on island. There is full co-operation between the Cayman Islands Government (CIG) authorities and those of the United States Government (USG) and the matter will be fully investigated.

In the interim, in the interest of the security of these islands, the safety of the three individuals and the expeditious conclusion of the investigation, the three individuals are being relocated to Northward Prison.

Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.

Statement Ends

THE MYSTERY CONTINUES

Although it is a separate issue, it is important to note that these three men did arrive on Grand Cayman on or around 22 August 2000 with Pakistani passports, from Cuba.

They were subsequently held in custody at Her Majesty's Prison at Northward, following an interview and processing by Immigration Officers.

Judge Henry Graham, on written Judgment dated The 5th of June 2001, then released them.

11 posted on 09/20/2001 12:00:45 PM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: HalfIrish
Cuba has been in the list of the sponsors of terrorism for more than 4 decades.

CASTRO AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM by Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton http://www.judicialwatch.org/ -TOP NEWS September 18, 2001

With the criminal terrorist attack against the U.S. it seems to be pertinent to bring to the forefront information about Castro that - although in public records - has been dangerously ignored by the U.S. government and the American people. Perhaps to satisfy the far-left agenda controlling the media and academia.

Cuba’s proximity to the U.S. and Castro’s hatred for this country and its institutions, and his years of training, arming and aiding terrorists to conduct his public war against the U.S. and his sinister underground plans against this country to cause havoc and destruction, make it relevant to point out these well founded facts. America’s wake up call must include our hemisphere’s greatest international terrorist.

The documentation of Fidel Castro’s known involvement in international terrorism goes back to his active participation in the April 1948 revolt in Bogota, Colombia. According to Georgie Anne Geyer’s Guerrilla Prince, this revolt left 5,000 dead and a third of Bogota in ashes. The same book recounts his involvement in the December 1948 attempt to overthrow Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.

In addition, Castro masterminded a failed terrorist attack on the Moncada Garrison on July 26, 1953, where his men killed, in cold blood, soldiers in their hospital beds. After Batista pardoned and released Castro from a privileged tenure of about 19 months of his 15-year sentence for his Moncada attack, he went to Mexico, where in August 1955 he established contact with the Soviet KGB agent Nikolai Leonov. And the future of Cuba was compromised onto a sinister, radical, left-wing Fascist path.

After his return to Cuba in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, he began blackmailing, terrorizing and executing farmers in that area who refused to supply him with food or join his effort. He also kidnapped American marines and others to gain political leverage. In the cities, his terrorist actions in public places resulted in many civilian deaths. According to Dr. Armando Lago’s research for a book, “2,826 lost their lives during the struggle against Batista between March 10, 1952 and December 31, 1958. Castro’s forces were responsible for 1432 of the deaths and Batista for 1394.”

Dr. Lago says his figures are based on details provided by Bohemia magazine, although, as a supporter of Castro, the magazine’s headline proclaimed 20,000 deaths – the figure oft quoted by Castro. Castro’s unsupported figure of 20,000 is what the media publishes all over the world without questioning its veracity as do as the academics in the learning centers in the U.S. and abroad.

Castro’s reign of terror began with his takeover of Cuba in 1959 and his summary executions without trials, massive incarcerations, setting aside the Constitution and organizing doomed armed operations against Panama and The Dominican Republic to export his left-wing Fascist terror, disguised as “liberation.”

Because of his well-documented hatred for the United States and the freedom it represents, he concocted a plan to send drugs into this country. Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld’s 1988 paper Narco-Terrorism and the Cuban Connection refers to a secret report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) published by The Miami Herald in November 1983 corroborating and dating Castro’s participation in drug-trafficking into the U.S. to 1961.

Castro, with his visceral hatred for the U.S., asked Khrushchev during the October 1962 Missile Crisis to lunch a nuclear attack against the U.S. And during the Vietnam War, Castro dispatched his henchmen to Hanoi to viciously torture U.S. POWs as documented by the historians Stuart Rochester and Frederick Riley’s book Honor Bound.

Since very early on Castro has been involved in arming, training and offering sanctuary to terrorists from all over the world. Dr. Ehrenfeld says in her paper that the 1979 edition of the Soviet Military Encyclopedia recommends “the use of ‘biological weapons, narcotics, terrorist activities, poisons and other methods. This definition accords with a decision made at the Tri-Continental Conference of world revolutionary groups held in Havana in January 1966. The decision called for the planned destabilization of the United States and explicitly detailed such activities as the exploitation and undermining of American society through the trafficking of drugs and promotion of other corrupting criminal activities.”

According to Irving Louis Horowitz’s Preface of David J. Kopilow’s 1985 paper Castro, Israel and the PLO, this Tri-Continental Conference, heavily attended by more than 500 delegates from radical leftist groups and terrorists, led “a series of moves ranging from Cuban co-sponsorship of the U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning ‘Zionism as Racism’ to manifest training and support for PLO efforts.” Castro provided tank crews that fought alongside the Syrians against Israel in the 1973 Syrian-Israeli “war of attrition.” At a point, Cuba had 3,000 troops deployed in Syria.

Horowitz says, “even the exceptional talents of Jewish writers on post-revolutionary Cuba, often harnessed in support of the Castro regime, reveals a seamier side: the deep, embittered silence of these scholars of Jewish origin when confronted with the burdensome evidence of Castro’s unbridled anti-Semitism, coupled with the near total disintegration of the pre-1959 thriving Jewish community of Havana in particular and Cuba in general.” Castro decimated the Jewish community in Cuba; today about 700 remain.

“Castro has helped the PLO gain prominence in the United Nations and other international arenas, introduced the PLO into Central America, [and Africa] provided direct military support by sending troops to the Middle East, and giving training to PLO terrorists.” And Kopilow also documents that one of the most famous graduates of the Cuban terrorist training’s camps was Illich Ramirez Sanchez, known as “’Carlos the Jackal,’ who was responsible for much success of Palestinian terrorism in Europe.”

He also says, “The Havana office of the PLO is now located in the same building which houses the Cuban Zionist Center.” In 1981, the PLO arranged a Libyan loan to Cuba of nearly $50 million.

Castro maintains close working relations with Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi. According to an AP dispatch dated May 16, 2001, Castro visited Qaddafi “six times” from March 6 to May 16, 2001. This last suspicious visit was after visiting Algeria, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar and Syria. Qaddafi even presented him in the past with a “human rights” award for “his fight against the U.S.”

Castro cultivates the alliance of other devotee war monger- U.S.-hating tyrants like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein as well as other state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East and other parts of the world. Curiously, they all appear on the U.S. State Department Patterns of Global Terrorism – 2000 released on April 30, 2001. This is an annual report sent to Congress that has been listing Cuba since 1993, see U.S. Cuba Policy Report, April 30, 2001, page 9.

Castro developed a relationship with Saddam Hussein since both share a fondness for bacteriological weapons. In a September 1997 article by Jonathan T. Stride titled Who Will Check Out Fidel Castro’s New Chemical/Biological Weapons Plant in East Havana?, Castro’s chemical/biological weapons factories are exposed – probably based on a Confidential Report translated from Spanish on February 1997.

Also, we can find more information about Castro’s involvement with bacteriological and chemical warfare in Dr. Manuel Cereijo’s paper Castro: A Threat To The Security Of The United States, dated October, 1997. In an article in Spanish by Roberto Fabricio published by El Nuevo Herald on June 20, 1999. And in an Executive Summary titled Is Castro Preparing for a Gotterdammerun? by Ernesto F. Betancourt, September 9, 1999, we can see the connection between the tyrants.

In his summary Betancourt says, “It has been widely commented that the CIA has found that the genetic and bio-technology industry, one of Castro’s pet projects, is nothing but a cover for developing biological weapons. This industry is housed in a complex of buildings in the Miramar zone of Havana, some of which are reported to have the usual security measures associated with biological weapons development. It is this knowledge that led Defense Secretary William Cohen in 1998 to caution the earlier Pentagon report about Cuba not being any longer a military threat to the U.S.”

In another paper by Betancourt dated October 18, 1999, titled The Encephalitis Outbreak, Hussein and Castro: A CIA/CDC Cover-Up?, he traced the possible connection and cooperation between the two tyrants exporting viruses to the U.S. Betancourt, among others, cites The New Yorker’s October 18-25, 1999 article by Richard Preston saying “a quotation made by Saddam refers to a dossier about ‘details of his ultimate weapon, developed in secret laboratories outside Iraq. Free of U.N. inspection, the laboratories would develop the SV1417 strain of the West Nile virus – capable of destroying 97 percent of life in an urban environment . . ..’ Now, where could such a research be undertaken?”

Betancourt suggests a few characteristics that will help pin point these “secret laboratories outside Iraq.” “It must have a technological capability to undertake such research, a country friendly to Iraq and hostile to the U.S., outside the reach of any U.N. inspection, a closed society, where these activities can be free of press coverage; and located within the reach of migratory birds. There is one place on earth that meets those requirements: Castro’s Cuba. The research undertaken in Cuba is precisely centered on developing virus strains suitable to be inoculated to the many migratory birds that fly North-South in the Fall and South-North in the Spring. It can be concluded that Cuba is the most plausible candidate for the germ warfare research and development activities referred to by Saddam Hussein in The New Yorker article.”

This paper quotes John Roehrig of the CDC saying, “it is not yet clear how the virus got to New York, but it could be from bird migration or from virus-carrying imported birds that infected the area’s mosquito population.” Citing details from others, Betancourt concludes, “How this virus reached the U.S. is an epidemiological mystery, since it has never been identified in North or South America. Castro has been for almost twenty years engaged in the development of germ warfare capabilities as well as in a delivery system using migratory birds to introduce epidemics into the U.S. to be transmitted by mosquitoes."

According to a former researcher of the Cuban Zoo Institute who now lives in Switzerland, Carlos Wotzkow, author of the 1998 book Natumaleza Cubana, we learn on its page 65 that unfortunately, the Smithsonian Institution collaborated with Castro by economically funding the study of migratory birds along with the University of Pennsylvania.

According to a well-informed source wishing to remain anonymous, the following U.S. institutions collaborated with information and gave funds to Cuba to conduct the study of migratory birds. They are the Department of Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, The Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nebraska Section of the Department of the Interior, The Audubon Society and RARE, a Center for Tropical Conservation, supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Let me clarify that these U.S. institutions probably did not have any idea that the information gained by Cuba was going to be used for the sinister purpose of exporting diseases to the U.S.

And sadly, American tourists leave their money in Cuba ignoring that they are contributing to the support of a terrorist regime that seeks their own destruction. According to Castro’s own words, “his destiny” will be “to wage a war against them” [the U.S.], as he wrote on June 5, 1958 to his secretary, the late Celia Sanchez (available in public records). The message is loud and clear, how naïve can we afford to continue being in the U.S.?

Radio Marti reported last August 26, 2001, as well as other American newspapers, that the West Nile virus in the U.S. has been spreading faster then expected. Radio Marti reported cases in north Florida. Other newspapers reported cases in New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and Georgia. Radio Marti reported that Wotzkow says that “in 1980 Castro ordered the unleashing of a biological war against the U.S.” and quoted Dr. Luis Roberto Henandez saying “Cuba’s laboratories identify and produce viruses for migratory birds.” Betancourt’s article published in Spanish in Miami’s El Nuevo Herald appeared as the main source in Radio Marti’s report.

In addition, Castro’s Cuba is a training ground and sanctuary for Basque terrorists responsible for hundreds of deaths in Spain, terrorists from Ireland, Colombia, Puerto Rico and other nationalities, hijackers, drug-traffickers, outlaws, fugitive U.S. criminals, and a collection of the scum of the earth (all U.S.-haters).

Cuba, 90 miles from the U.S., has two powerful spy stations in the outskirts of Havana. One built and still updated and maintained by the former Soviet Union, and another built not long ago by our Chinese “friends.” Both of these stations are actively engaged in collecting military, economic and civilian information and are certainly sharing their findings with terrorists worldwide.

According to Dr. Manuel Cereijo‘s 1997 paper, they have the capability “of interrupting commercial and military computer communications in the United States, in case of a confrontation with this country.” Also, Cereijo says that Cuba regularly develops computer viruses “with the intent of using them to disrupt computer systems during time of war or crisis.” Many Cuban Americans in the U.S. have had their computers damaged by made-in-Cuba viruses.

Castro still keeps sending his agents and spies to the U.S. His U.N. Cuban Mission in New York and the Cuba Interests Section in Washington, D.C. are nothing but nests of trained security agents posing as diplomats. Last April 2000, in Washington, D.C., a press conference was broadcast by local FOX TV protesting the Cuban “diplomats” attack of peaceful demonstrators on U.S. soil. In it, Joe Carrollo, the Mayor of Miami, revealed an intelligence report charging current Cuba Charge d’Affairs, Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, as the person who introduced bacteriological weapons to kill blacks by Cuban soldiers during the war in Angola, Africa.

With the end of Soviet communism, the U.S. government and the American people thought that the danger to this country was over. But it is not so for as long as there are so many nations who literally hate our guts and are overcome with envy for what this country is thanks to our freedom and democracy.

Recently, this hatred was clearly demonstrated by expelling the U.S. from the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and by the shameless racist conduct of many nations during the recent U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Among those attending that sham was Castro, one of the oldest tyrants in the Western World, who violates all human rights and, as documented by Jim Guirard’s in a recent article Behind the Mask -- A Fascist Fidel, practices racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and sexism.

Castro also practices apartheid and caused the deaths of over 100,000 in Cuba and thousands abroad. As usual, Castro blasted and blamed the U.S. for all evil in the world and his many admirers in the U.N. applauded him with gusto.

For as long as this unjust hatred for the U.S. persists and rogue nations, like Cuba, among others, give sanctuary to international terrorists and collaborate by providing training, intelligence, and logistic support, despicable and unforgivable acts like the attack of September 11, 2001, will continue. Do not get confused by the hypocritical messages of condolence sent by Castro and many of our cowardly enemies who aid and give sanctuary to terrorism and now fear the might of this nation and its people.

It is time for America to wake up to the realities surrounding us and realize that not all cultures share our values. It is time for resolve and to go to the root of the problems, which are a group of nations, run by tyrannies that are unable to live and let live in a civilized way and in peace with the rest of the planet. The choice is clear. Castro hasn’t (yet) orchestrated a massive event causing the instant deaths of thousands of Americans, but the effects of his actions – spread out over 42 years – have probably affected even more. And are the tourists who help support him and the media so anxious to give him the opportunity to spread his word, now, officially (in the words of our President) accomplices?

© 2001 ABIP Agustin Blazquez, Producer/Director of the documentaries COVERING CUBA, COVERING CUBA 2: The Next Generation and the upcoming COVERING CUBA 3: Elián +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The above is sent to you by RCB (Chachi) FOR FREEDOM & JUSTICE GROUP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ForFreedomandJustice

12 posted on 09/20/2001 1:19:24 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Dqban22
Cuba belongs on the enemies list BUMP !!
13 posted on 09/20/2001 2:01:56 PM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: HalfIrish
Radical Islam or Communist Direct Action?
14 posted on 09/21/2001 4:18:37 PM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: HalfIrish
BUMP!
15 posted on 10/07/2001 2:50:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: snopercod; HalfIrish

Replies 10, 11 ... maybe 12


17 posted on 08/16/2004 6:59:25 PM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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