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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“Order up a Code Red for El Jefe.”
Si ! One Frozen Red Sunset on the way !
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.
Cuba could be ours in a matter of hours
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Actually no, I didn’t say anything about Gitmo Naval Base before McCain-Feingold and the Amnesty Bills were floored.
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 . . .
This has to be from Scrappleface or Semmens pulling our leg again? Too funny! Its not a joke? You coulda fooled me.
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.
Sorry, Felipe.
Well! Since we used to own the whole country I demand they give that back!
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.
Regards,
GtG
And John McCain agrees with Cuba. Traitor alert.
Maybe Hugo will help him.
Long past time to REALLY invade Cuber.
Refresh my memory. When did we own it.
We defeated Spain but I don’t recall ever actually actually owning Cuba
Where do you get this stuff?
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.
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