-Shane
Posted on 12/19/2002 10:26:02 AM PST by shanec
Keep on reporting.
I have to admit all the stories one gets to see on TV on any issue are all very well prepared.
I do have my own opinion and prejudice on political issues as any normal human being but I always want to get news. Can we name this Shane Eyewitnessnews Service.
His playmates are our enemies.
Castro, Qadafy, Saddam, Khomeini, Jiang Zemin.
China is in Cuba:
China Reform Monitor No. 449, May 23, 2002
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.
May 12
China has replaced Russia as Fidel Castro's main partner for electronic espionage and other activities directed against the United States in the Western hemisphere, NewsMax.Com reports in an article that first appeared in the April 2002 American Legion Magazine. Until recently, Russia paid Castro more than $200 million annually in much-needed hard currency for use of its massive electronic spy station at Lourdes. In a surprise move, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly withdrew his support and 1,500 advisers from Cuba in the wake of the September 11th attacks on Washington and New York. Now China, which had been building its own spy stations in Cuba, has supplanted the Russians as Castro's primary electronic espionage partner. Beijing has built a sophisticated new signals intelligence complex in Bejucal, Cuba, operating under the cover of Radio China.
In addition to being used for espionage, these installations are reportedly part of a robust cyber-warfare capability Castro is developing. The FCC has stated they are capable of interfering with U.S. communications and air traffic control. In one incident originating in Cuba, the report adds, U.S. officials claim that Chinese operatives sent a message to New York air traffic control replicating U.S. military fight codes and falsely identifying themselves as U.S. military transport planes - a chilling indication of things to come.
As for why "the media" does not accurately report the tyrant Chavez opposed by valiant Venezuelans--
"The media" are suck-ups to Castro, viz. Dan Rather and Bahbah Wahwah in their nauseating obeisance.
The Great Nobel Pizza Prize Winner Jimmah Peanut got chapped lips from kissing El Chancre Grande's behind.
There is organized danger in our hemisphere. The Demrats have embraced it, and through the Boland Amendment and like actions has allowed it to fester.
The handing off of our Canal to the ChiComs is of particular note.
In the inverted worldview of the leftist propaganda machine, Castro and Chavez are good; while their opposition is demonized--viz. the Elian debacle.
Chavez has a lead deficiency which could be cured with a single well-placed shot.
Good hunting.
-Shane
For new readers to this thread, be sure to also see the follow-up thread detailing Chavez recent desperation moves to now Quash Venezuela Strikers & Opposition
-Shane
And that is a very good thing!
Five chemical- and biological-weapons plants operate throughout the island, according to documents smuggled out of Cuba and made available to Insight by Alvaro Prendes, a former Cuban air force colonel who now is the Miami-based spokesman for the Union of Liberated Soldiers and Officers, a clandestine pro-democracy movement within Cuba's security services. The credibility of the smuggled documents is enhanced by a recent classified Pentagon analysis. Also, these facilities have not been on the itinerary of such visiting dignitaries as retired Marine Gen. John Sheehan, the recently passed-over candidate for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who enthusiastically embraced normalizing relations with Havana following a recent round of junketing with Castro.
Pentagon, State Department and congressional sources also point to continuing Cuban support for international terrorism and drug trafficking. They tell Insight that, according to the CIA, Russian specialists still operate the electronic listening station at Lourdes on the northeast tip of the island which taps into U.S. communications. During the Persian Gulf War, this station forwarded strategic information to Iraq.
Reports smuggled out this year by dissident Cuban military officers and scientists are believed to be among the factors prompting Defense Secretary William Cohen to revise a Pentagon report sent to Congress last April which decertified Cuba as a threat to U.S. national security. The revised report, still classified but made available to an Insight reporter, states: "Cuba's air force is in disrepair and much of the regular army is demobilized, but the Castro government retains the potential to pose unconventional threats. It has the infrastructure which can be adapted to the production of chem-bio weapons."
A classified annex to the Pentagon's final report to Congress further warns: "According to sources within Cuba, at least one research site is run and funded by the Cuban military to work on the development of offensive and defensive biological weapons." Why does the president ignore this? "Clinton just wants to avoid another front," says Ernesto Betancourt, former director of Radio Marti, a U.S. government broadcasting service. Betancourt believes that the administration is terrified of provoking a confrontation which could lead to another Cuban wave of refugees. ***
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-Shane
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