Posted on 10/07/2017 12:03:14 AM PDT by topher
One week after the Trump administration issued a travel warning for Cuba, it said that a "handful" of Americans who traveled to the island country reported to the State Department that they "experienced symptoms similar" to those affecting nearly two dozen embassy personnel in Havana.
Twenty-two American government employees have been hit by "targeted" attacks, with symptoms ranging from dizziness, to headache and fatigue, to hearing loss, to traumatic brain injury. But, if verified, the claims in the statement from the State Department would mark a dramatic escalation of the ongoing mystery that has vexed U.S. investigators and so far only affected government personnel.
"A handful of U.S. citizens who recently traveled to Cuba have communicated to us that they experienced symptoms similar to those listed in our Sept. 29 travel warning," a State Department official told ABC News. "We cannot verify the claims and continue to urge American citizens to review our travel warning prior to traveling to Cuba."
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Not breaking news, but travelers need to be aware of this.
Whoever they are....it’s probably a van with some kind of sonic device mounted on the roof. Maybe the original idea was just driving around and using toward the US embassy staff, but now? Tourists?
I think it’s just a mad Cuban scientist dude with some garage-type weapon he built. Watch for some idiots in the US to develop the same thing and we have to start worrying about this problem.
Handful? One is too many.
So Sonic Attacks in a hotel is possible.
Though it could be the Cuban Gov't, I think that Russian Gov't might do this to sabotage things between US and CUBA.
If this were the Russians....you’d see this multiplied out and in Europe as well. All you’d need is a non-description van. I think it’s just one guy or a small group. There is some agenda behind it...no doubt.
It would be curious to ask the KGB if they had a test lab associated with the Cubans and if this had been a project left over from the 1980s/1990s.
Why would any AnericN in their right mind visit: Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, New Jersey, NYC, etc.?
Is there something that can link the people who got sick? Curious.
Because the grouper are the size of Volkswagen Beetles.
Shocking I tell you. I always heard that Cuba had the finest public health infrastructure in the world.
If you’re talking about jewfish, you’re not allowed to catch them And if you just want to look at them, there are several aquariums in civilized parts of the world that have nice specimens.
I’ve been twice this year on mission trips, don’t drink the water!
Probably whiny liberal scum....so who cares?
I figure it’s another country disrupting our slowly growing presence and ties to Cuba. They want Cuba to remain in their sphere and fear capitalism and increasing American contact shifting them back to our side. We should increase our economic ties and bring them into the fold, not pull back.
Yes, but AFTER free elections (in Cuba).
Americans were told to move to a different room if they hear it and feel they are being attacked as the attack won’t follow them.
If this was coming from some rogue lunatic driving around in their 1950’s vehicle, I really don’t think the sound would only be heard in certain rooms. That would be too easy of a hypothesis to eliminate.
Who cares? People are getting TBI’s from it.
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