South Florida has been linked to several terrorism investigations in the past. Several of the Sept. 11 hijackers lived and trained in the area, including ringleader Mohamed Atta. Some plots by Cuban-Americans against the government of Fidel Castro also have been based in Miami.
Moral equivalency at its finest. Mass murdering, crazed, America-hating 9/11 hijackers tossed in a salad with anti-Communist, anti-Castro Cubans who've engaged in plots such as. . .the Bay of Pigs.
In AP's alternate reality, since Miami's Cubans have historically voted Republican, they're no better than jihadists. /sarc
The Miami Herald has many more details , including the fact that some of these mutts took a trip to Chicago, and that they all worked for the same construction company.
In AP's alternate reality, since Miami's Cubans have historically voted Republican, they're no better than jihadists. /sarc
You made a very good point. There is no moral equivalence between the many attempts to depose the bloody dictator of the Caribbean and the terrorist efforts to murder civilians in United States of America.
Nevertheless, the Republican Congress created the US Patriot Act that treats Cuban patriots are terrorists.
For instance, the CIA-trained guerrillas that fought Castro in the 1960's, the Escambray Mountains alzados, have been treated like terrorists and banned from the US under the US Patriot Act. Furthermore, not only the anti-Castro surviving guerrillas and their relatives are considered terrorists, but anyone who provided support to the their anti-Castro struggle is also banned from the US under the US Patriot Act.