Posted on 09/16/2002 10:55:14 PM PDT by TheConservator
This one is about as equally well-thought-out.
Read the article:
Carlos Wotzkow, a leading Cuban ornithologist who defected in 1999, says that Castro's "Biological Front, which coordinates military and scientific research, was extended to the Institute of Zoology in 1991 to develop ways of spreading infectious diseases, including encephalitis and leptospirosis, through implantations in migratory birds."
Roberto Hernandez, another exiled Cuban scientist, says, "We were instructed to look into viruses such as encephalitis which are highly resistant to insecticides. Military-intelligence officers running the labs ordered us to trap birds with migratory routes to the United States with the idea of releasing contaminated flocks which would be bitten by mosquitoes which, in turn, infect humans."
Trust me. I'm an "exile".
When Castro took over, the wave of Cubans that came to the U.S. were not seeking the U.S. gravy train. They wanted to escape Castro's Communist repression, re-group, oust Castro and then resume their former lives back home in Cuba. Two of my uncles went straight back to Cuba and landed on the invasion beach at the Bay of Pigs. After that failed, one uncle volunteered for the U.S. Army and had two Vietnam combat tours as a Green Beret but his dream was always to oust Castro.
As years passed, the older generation still considered themselves "exiles". Life in the 1960's and 1970's was called "El Exilio".
The name stuck, especially with the news media.
I came from Cuba when I was six. I'm an American citizen and a retired U.S. Naval officer. Although I now live in the Pacific Northwest, "home" for my Cuban American generation is Miami. Not Cuba. Miami, Florida, U.S.A. I have absolutely no plans to ever go back and live in Cuba except maybe as a tourist if Castro falls. To me, Cuba is a foreign country......come to think of it, so is the Left Coast out here. I am an American of Cuban birth and heritage.
However, if I should ever make the national newspapers, I will bet you dollars to doughnuts that the national news media will describe me as a "Cuban exile". They will also most likely add their customary adjectives "hard-line, anti-Castro, right-wing and politically powerful".
Needless to say that in the complacent environment that prevailed at the time, the possibility to select birds to "host" the introduction of viruses, such as the West Nile, in the US was perceived as insane as, say, flying passenger planes as missiles into the World Trade Center. The whole idea was utterly rejected by an anonymous CIA spokesman who, in a story in The Washington Post of October 12, 1999, stated categorically that "to imply that there is an investigation gives more credibility to that hypothesis than it deserves." End of the story.
Source: West Nile Virus: Is Castro's Bioterrorism Threat Being Ignored?
Source: Iraq and Cuba – Fitting Pieces in the West Nile Virus Puzzle?
I would be darn proud to support this man, yep. Darn proud.
Check out this headline from Larry's web site:
Judicial Watch and Cuban Groups to “March On Washington” In Support of End to Castro’s Terrorist Regime
But when you read the actual article
Miami/Washington—Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, will join thousands of Cuban exiles in Washington next week to argue against the lifting of the U.S. embargo on the communist island, which for years has appeared on the United States’ list of certified terrorist nations. Ironically, Judicial Watch believes that the Bush Administration’s policy toward Cuba to simply continue the embargo is not enough.
Judicial Watch expressed outrage when the House of Representatives recently voted (262 to 167) to lift the decades-old travel ban on Cuba and days later revealed its plan to open trade even further. On September 17-18, a large group of American agricultural firms, looking to make millions of dollars selling their products to Cuba, will demonstrate what they call broad support across the United States for easing the 40-year-old embargo. Ironically, the Bush administration has looked the other way as trade has expanded, particularly since many of these companies are large campaign contributors.
Supporting the embargo will be several Cuban exile groups from Miami, along with Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman, who last year presented a case against Castro for terrorist crimes against humanity in the Belgian Royal Courts. Sandra Cobas, Director of Judicial Watch’s Southern Regional Office in Miami, will join Klayman in this important effort.
“Ironically, merely monitoring and strengthening the trade embargo against Castro, which the Bush Administration has weakened, is not enough! (Millions of dollars worth of grains, beans and fruit have been sold directly from this country to Cuba in the last year for the first time since the embargo was implemented). Why is the Bush Administration allowing the Cuban embargo to be circumvented and why is it promoting only the invasion and liberation of Iraq, when the world’s oldest living terrorist, Fidel Castro, who has killed many more innocents than Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden combined, is alive and well just 90 miles off the Florida coast? If President Bush is as serious about terrorism as he claims, why isn’t there also a directive by President Bush to take Castro dead or alive?” Klayman said today.
and cull out all the self-serving drivel, it's just a JW press release annoucing they will attend.
And that, folks, is how Larry does it.
But one thing here was new to me:
U.S. investigators appear to be overlooking two Cuban DGI deep-cover agents indicted in Florida on Aug. 4, 2001, who told the FBI that they had obtained jobs in the U.S. Postal Service on instructions from Havana, which wanted studies of post-office security, through which the deadly anthrax letters moved to kill Americans.
Over 60 Major Judicial Watch Victories Made Possible with Your Support
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