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Leftists accuse U.S. of harboring Cuban bomber By Anthony Boadle 45 minutes ago HAVANA (Reuters) - Left-wing politicians and intellectuals attending a conference on terrorism in Cuba accused the U.S. government on Thursday of harboring a Cuban exile blamed for the bombing of an airliner in 1976. They said the Bush administration had a double standard in its post-9/11 war on terror because it refused to extradite former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela to stand trial for the downing of a Cuban plane that killed 73 people. The meeting, headed by Cuban President Fidel Castro at Havana's convention...

The Washington Post gets full marks for exposing the alarming lack of seriousness with which President Bush is now dealing with what is euphemistically called "The Global War Against Terrorism." Numerous key positions — including the State Department’s top slot, vacated at the end of last year by Cofer Black, and the head of the new counterterrorism center — are vacant, and the National Security Council is working hard to define our current strategy, led by the impressive Frances Townsend. After nearly four years? Indeed, if you talk to military officers engaged in the GWOT, more often than not you...

Despite new evidence that Venezuela has become a sort of ''Club Med'' for Latin America's violent groups, the Bush administration is unlikely to start its second term taking major steps to isolate leftist-populist President Hugo Chávez. But, eventually, it will probably do so. Judging from what incoming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Senate earlier this week and what I have heard in interviews with well-placed current and former U.S. officials, the U.S. strategy will be to wait until Chávez does something really obnoxious in the eyes of the world, which he probably will.

London 05.01.05 | The answer is, he was a guest of honour of the Bolivarian encounter of intellectuals organized, hosted and sponsored by the administration of Hugo Chavez. That’s right folks; Hugo Chavez cuddles with and invites international terrorists at the taxpayer’s expense, although this is not the first time his criminal and clumsy actions are spoilt by respectable police forces. Just to refresh public memory: Remember Montesinos’ 'arrest' in Caracas? Costa Rican authorities would later reveal that a man fitting his description entered their country using a false Venezuelan passport under the name Manuel Antonio Rodriguez. But Venezuela's Foreign...

Let’s dispel two myths: The War in Iraq is the War on Terror, and there are no insurgents in Iraq. Insurgency, as defined by Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, is to rebel against an established government. Since there is no established government in Iraq, there are no insurgents, only terrorists. There is no difference, no distinction, and no reason to label this war differently. Nevertheless, the biased, left wing media and the Democratic Party keep them separate in their warped agenda. They choose to ignore the connection and the facts. ''There were no links between Iraq and al Qaeda!'' We heard the chants...

"Most of the international civil rights movements with offices in Gaza give refuge to Palestinian terrorist activists." So said this morning Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, in an appearance before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He also said, "Abu Mazen won't be able to hide behind the excuse of Arafat for very long. It's up to him. If he doesn't do what he's supposed to, stop incitement in the official press and school system, he is liable to find himself in the same position as Arafat." Shalom told reporters afterwards that Abu Mazen had better start acting, and that...

Straw: Syria Must Prove It is Not Harboring Iraqi FugitivesVOA News15 Apr 2003, 08:15 UTC British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says Syria must quickly provide answers to charges it is harboring fugitive leaders of the ousted Iraqi regime. Mr. Straw told reporters at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar Tuesday it is very important that Syria accept, what he called, the new reality and operate in a cooperative manner. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Washington is considering economic and diplomatic sanctions against Damascus. Earlier, President Bush accused Syria of possessing chemical weapons, and top administration...

<p>MADRID (Reuters) - Syria's ambassador to Spain has called U.S. accusations that Syria harboured terrorists an insult and criticised what he called U.S. blackmail.</p> <p>He was speaking a day after senior U.S. officials threatened sanctions over charges that Damascus supported terrorism, was harbouring Iraqi leaders and developing chemical weapons.</p> <p>"It's an insult to my country, an insult to a country that is a member of the U.N. Security Council and an insult to a peaceful country that is struggling and working for a lasting peace in the Middle East," the ambassador, Mohsen Bilal, told Spain's Cadena Ser radio on Tuesday.</p>