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To: nw_arizona_granny; Calpernia
Here is a Cuban link looking for al-queera link. Condfindent Little snot isn't he...

Moratinos boasts of "advances" in relations with Castro
Foreign minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos said yesterday that there are "positive facts" in Cuba, such as the meeting held by Cuban dissidents on May 20 and the freeing of some prisoners. Moratinos's statements come in the wake of the expulsion of several European politicians and journalists from Cuba. Moratinos said that therefore the Spanish administration wants to continue along the "line of dialogue" with Havana, and called for "objectivity in evaluating the advances caused by the EU policy toward Cuba, promoted by Spain." "We must be objective in our evaluations," said Moratinos, when asked about the effects of the recent attempts by Fidel Castro to influence the EU's decision on whether to continue the suspension of diplomatic relations with Cuba past June. "Try to see where we were with the measures before the beginning of this Spanish administration and the lack of dialogue with Cuba and then see where we are now. There have been liberations from prison, meetings with the dissidents, the dissidents meet with the (foreign) mission chiefs and with diplomatic representatives, there is a congress of dissidents which has never before been held, these are facts," said Moratinos. "That's not enough? Well, we would like to go faster, but before we had these dissidents in jail and without the ability to call meetings. We're going to keep working and providing facts, and trying to be objective," he said. Asked about the expulsion of European journalists and political leaders, Moratinos said, "I don't know how many parliamentarians were expelled, I don't know whether it was four and five other journalists, while there were 150 dissidents who went to the meeting." He then called the expulsions "unacceptable." Moratinos is to receive the Czech foreign minister today in Madrid and will bring up this question, as the Czech republic is one of the firmest opponents of the policy of detente with Cuba. "We don't have to convince anyone, simply point out what the advances and our goals are. I think we have to be objective," he said.

http://www.spainherald.com/2005-05-24news.html
1,040 posted on 06/11/2005 7:50:01 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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Posted on 06/11/2005 6:41:13 PM PDT by CHARLITE


1,041 posted on 06/11/2005 8:14:57 PM PDT by Cindy
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400,000 AT LARGE U.S. Has Freed Foreign Murderers Under Loophole All 2 messages in topic - view as tree johnny@. Apr 14, 7:02 pm show options Newsgroups: alt.politics.immigration From: "johnny@." - Find messages by this author Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:02:37 -0500 Local: Thurs,Apr 14 2005 7:02 pm Subject: U.S. Has Freed Foreign Murderers Under Loophole Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse The United States has freed numerous illegal aliens into the community who are dangerous murderers, rapists and child molesters under a legal loophole created by Supreme Court decisions, the Bush administration said on Thursday. In testimony to a Senate subcommittee, a senior Justice Department official said Congress should urgently pass legislation to close the loopholes, which have already resulted in the release of several extremely violent offenders, with others scheduled for release soon. "Among them are vicious criminals who have murdered their wives, molested young children and brutally attacked their enemies," Jonathan Cohn, a deputy assistant attorney general, told a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The loophole arose after the Supreme Court ruled in two cases, one in 2001 and the other this year, that criminal aliens could only be held in prison for six months pending deportation after completing their criminal sentences. If the individual‘s home country refused to accept him within that time, the criminal alien must be released. The administration wants Congress to pass a law allowing such people to be held indefinitely. Among those being freed are over 700 people who came to the United States from Cuba in 1980 as part of the so-called Mariel boatlift. By mid-February, 150 have already been released because Cuba will not accept them back. Cohn said they include Antonio Valenti-Cordova, a convicted murderer with a history of mental illness who has the delusional belief that the FBI instructed him to strangle his wife. Also, Elio Riveron-Aguilera who has committed aggravated criminal sexual assault, rape, robbery and kidnapping. 400,000 AT LARGE Victor Cerda of the Department of Homeland Security testified that in fiscal year 2004, his division removed 84,000 criminal aliens from the United States. However, an estimated 400,000 were still at large. "Under Operation Predator, ICE There are an estimated 10-12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Their presence, and the potential security threat they represent, is fueling increasing political anger, especially among Republicans. Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said there was no political will in the administration to control the U.S. border with Mexico, adding that President Bush "just doesn‘t get it." In a hearing Wednesday before a House of Representatives subcommittee, ICE assistant secretary Michael Garcia said that since late February, his agency had arrested more than 150 members of the Central American MS-13 gang for immigration violations. Over half had previous arrest and conviction records for crimes such as robbery, assault, rape and murder. One, Lester Rivera-Paz, was wanted in Honduras for involvement in a massacre of 28 bus passengers last December. He had already been deported once from the United States but had illegally reentered the country. http://www.obviousnews.com/bre­akingnews/stories/obviousnews-­558039.html http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.immigration/browse_thread/thread/cb218e039e8015ad/274b1c6a86dc183f?q=cuba+and++MS-13+gang&rnum=2&hl=en#274b1c6a86dc183f
1,042 posted on 06/11/2005 8:59:31 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT
Microsoft bans words DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM for Chinese web users

Totally off topic: Cats can alter your personality

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The terrorism case that wasn't and still is

1,055 posted on 06/11/2005 10:30:19 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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