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Cuba demands US gives back Guantanamo Bay
AFP ^

Posted on 02/14/2008 1:09:42 PM PST by chemical_boy

CUBA has demanded the US return Guantanamo Bay to the island nation and denounced the "war on terror" prison, where six detainees could face the death penalty. Cuba's Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque claimed today that suspects held in the US naval base in the southeastern tip of Cuba have been subjected to torture and face unfair legal treatment. Cuba rejects "the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees and in which they are convicted in advance,'' he told reporters. He did not directly refer to the case of six detainees facing charges that carry the death penalty. "We demand again the closure of the indecent Guantanamo prison, the return of the territory illegally occupied to our fatherland,'' Perez Roque said. The United States, which has occupied Guantanamo for more than 100 years, signed in 1934 a lease agreement with the Cuban government that could not be altered without agreement by both countries. Since 1960, a year after it came to power, Fidel Castro's communist government has refused the annual lease payment of 5000 dollars from the United States. The US Defence Department announced Monday that military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against six Al-Qaeda detainees on murder and conspiracy charges in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: chutzpah; cuba; gitmo; guantanamobay; usn
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To: chemical_boy
Cuba rejects the violation of human rights, unjust incarceration of prisoners held there without charges, and their appearance in courts without guarantees....

BWAAAHAAAAHAAA

21 posted on 02/14/2008 1:22:07 PM PST by SwankyC (McCain is the wrong liberal for the job.)
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To: chemical_boy
Screw monkey boy’s daddy! hey fidel... get your monkey boy friend and try to kick us off you commie puke!

LLS

22 posted on 02/14/2008 1:22:09 PM PST by LibLieSlayer ("There is no conservative alternative in the race. It's just that simple." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: massgopguy

“Order up a Code Red for El Jefe.”

Si ! One Frozen Red Sunset on the way !


23 posted on 02/14/2008 1:23:40 PM PST by billmor
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To: squidly
McCain may move the detainees to Leavenworth or wherever, but he will never give up Gitmo Naval Base.

LOL!!! Is that what you said just prior to McCain-Feingold and the Shamnesty bill being floored? Go drink some more koolaid before the numbness fades.

24 posted on 02/14/2008 1:24:06 PM PST by TADSLOS (Be a 3.6 percenter- Write in Duncan Hunter for POTUS!)
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To: chemical_boy
scramble NAS Key West

Cuba could be ours in a matter of hours

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25 posted on 02/14/2008 1:24:33 PM PST by Elle Bee
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To: TADSLOS

Actually no, I didn’t say anything about Gitmo Naval Base before McCain-Feingold and the Amnesty Bills were floored.


26 posted on 02/14/2008 1:25:28 PM PST by squidly
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To: chemical_boy

Did Fidel Castro make the demand personally in a 7 hour speech to his grateful (and exceedingly bored) nation? Or did he just dribble into a tube while another tube carried away waste . . .


27 posted on 02/14/2008 1:27:02 PM PST by Greg F (The RNC doesn't pick the winning candidate. The RNC sucks up to the winning candidate.)
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To: chemical_boy

This has to be from Scrappleface or Semmens pulling our leg again? Too funny! Its not a joke? You coulda fooled me.


28 posted on 02/14/2008 1:27:12 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft
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To: billmor

And add to this also, reimbursement to all the American companies and other foreign business investments in Cuba which Fidel seized.

Then, after the demands are met, we can all sit down and discuss things.


29 posted on 02/14/2008 1:27:43 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SycoDon; chemical_boy; SwinneySwitch; Diddle E. Squat; deport; Ben Ficklin; zeugma; MeekOneGOP; ...

30 posted on 02/14/2008 1:28:17 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: chemical_boy
Uh, too early, the leased is not up for renewal for about 25 more years.

Sorry, Felipe.

31 posted on 02/14/2008 1:28:22 PM PST by Lurking in Kansas (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: chemical_boy

Well! Since we used to own the whole country I demand they give that back!


32 posted on 02/14/2008 1:28:47 PM PST by ScratInTheHat (Don't like my immigration stance? I'm dyslexic. PC keeps sounding like BS to me!)
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To: chemical_boy

Sure-come get it. Aprroach the front gate with a weapon in sight makig sudden hand gestures. The Marines will be waiting for you. Jack ass.


33 posted on 02/14/2008 1:30:33 PM PST by MattinNJ ("Conservatives" will stay home in November and hand the socialists the election. Unbelievable.)
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To: chemical_boy
"Molon labe!"

Regards,
GtG

34 posted on 02/14/2008 1:31:11 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: chemical_boy

And John McCain agrees with Cuba. Traitor alert.


35 posted on 02/14/2008 1:31:51 PM PST by farmer18th (Conservatives who vote McCain are like abused dogs who keep licking their master's hand...)
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To: chemical_boy

Maybe Hugo will help him.


36 posted on 02/14/2008 1:32:22 PM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: chemical_boy

Long past time to REALLY invade Cuber.


37 posted on 02/14/2008 1:33:13 PM PST by fweingart (Obama-Clinton (A ticket that will change our lives forever!))
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To: ScratInTheHat

Refresh my memory. When did we own it.

We defeated Spain but I don’t recall ever actually actually owning Cuba


38 posted on 02/14/2008 1:33:22 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Chelsea is a liar)
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To: farmer18th
And John McCain agrees with Cuba. Traitor alert.

Where do you get this stuff?

39 posted on 02/14/2008 1:33:37 PM PST by squidly
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To: squidly

John McCain wants to pull terror suspects out of Gitmo and he wants to end water-boarding. (He also wants to end free speech 60 days before an election.) He sounds more and more like Fidel everyday.


40 posted on 02/14/2008 1:35:27 PM PST by farmer18th (Conservatives who vote McCain are like abused dogs who keep licking their master's hand...)
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