On or Off Cuba Ping. In freedom44's temporary absence from the board, until May 15, I am pinging the Cuba ping list.
Posted on 05/11/2005 10:44:18 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Cuban leader Fidel Castro has called for a demonstration next Tuesday to protest against what he described as the support of the United States to an individual involved in terrorist acts against the island.
Castro condemned on Tuesday evening the refusal of the United States to capture and indict Cuban Luis Posada Carriles, who currently is in US territory, local media reported Wednesday.
"We won't just stay like this," Castro said. "We are going to demand justice and the end of support to assassins."
The demonstration will take place outside the United States Office for Cuban Interests, said the Cuban leader.
Posada Carriles, 77, was involved in the destruction of a Cuban airliner, killing 73 people in 1976 off the coast of Barbados, and a wave of bomb attacks on tourist centers resulting in the death of an Italian in 1997, in Havana.
Castro called on the Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Chile to express their position on the Posada Carriles case. Newly elected OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza is currently Chile's interior minister.
"We would like to have a word from them to learn whether or not they are in favor of bringing this criminal to justice," he said.
In August 2004, Posada Carriles and three other Cubans were pardoned by then Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso. They had been in jail since November 2000, after being captured for planning an attack on Castro in Panama during an Summit of Ibero- American countries.
Declassified US documents show that Posada Carriles, who is seeking asylum in the United States, spent years on the CIA payroll, reports said.
CIA and FBI files, published by George Washington University's National Security Archive, revealed that US investigators believed Posada Carriles was involved in the 1976 bombing of the Cubana Airlines jet that killed 73 passengers, including teenage members of a Cuban fencing team.
Another reason not to acceed to demands of terrorists and dictators, it only emboldens them to try again.
On or Off Cuba Ping. In freedom44's temporary absence from the board, until May 15, I am pinging the Cuba ping list.
Jeeze, I wish the CIA had gotten their act together back in the 60's with their exploding cigars.
How long can this silly old bugger keep going? Some people just don't know when it's time to go!
Fidel looks a bit depressed since his boy toy Dan Rather's career went down the tubes.
How long can this silly old bugger keep going? Some people just don't know when it's time to go!
LOL! Just what I was thinking. But when he does, it will probably be like "Weekend at Bernies," and they will just prop him up and use one of those fuzzy muppet hands with no fingernails to wave to the masses to keep up the illusion.
The Cuban garment factory is ready for him to go due to low supply of fatigue green dye.
Maybe we can get some legislation passed next Tuesday as many of the Democrats will be in Cuba supporting Fidel.
I wonder what old Batista would have to say about this?
Whose to say the Cuban version of "Weekend at Bernie's" isn't already in production?
He didn't look real flash in the last photo I saw...
Oh, really? Which ones?
I think I know what the next Dem line of attack is. They won't know it until Castro gives them the orders but I think it's already starting to surface...
There's another book deal complete & ready to ship out.
Good comment. I feel sorry for the Cubans too. How long can some pathetic POS joke like Castro, an evil man, keep oppressing the Cuban people?
"....I feel sorry for the Cubans. Long lost, spineless, doomed to nothingness."
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Don't call them spineless, you obviously have no idea what it's like to live in a communist dictatorship, where they drag you into prison for uttering a wrong word, and kill you for uttering two.
The Cubans are suffering, but will survive, as the people of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union did, and I hope many will see democracy in Cuba again, soon.
Castro is showing solidarity with U.S. Democrats as they fight against confirming Bolton to the U.N.
The turn out will be huge......OR ELSE
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