1 posted on
09/12/2002 9:37:14 AM PDT by
westnews
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OK, Nelson, now that GW has told off your buddy, Kofi, whaddaya got to say fer yerself now?
2 posted on
09/12/2002 9:38:03 AM PDT by
mhking
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The US is the only chance the world has at world peace. What a joker!!!!
3 posted on
09/12/2002 9:38:31 AM PDT by
Mixer
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DO NOT FORGET MANDELA SUPPORT FOR CASTRO'S TERROR NETWORK
Center for the Study of a National Option
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001
Rafael Artigas and Ana Carbonell provided research support for this article.
It was not hard to guess what common foe brought the Supreme Leader and the Comandante together for their summit meeting in Tehran in May. The statements made by Fidel Castro during his visit to Iran are chilling when read in light of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
According to news reports, during the visit Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei "assured Castro that Iran and Cuba can defeat the U.S. hand in hand, to which Castro agreed, adding that America was "extremely weak today, and that "we are today eyewitness to their weakness, as their close neighbors.
At Tehran University he stated to the thunderous applause of students and faculty, "The imperialist king will finally fall, (AFP, May 10, 2001). Immediately afterward the Iranian Press Service proudly proclaimed that "Iran and Cuba reached the conclusion that together they can tear down the United States. (IPS, May 10, 2001)
Some have argued that Cubas well-documented sponsorship and instigation of international terrorism is a thing of the past, to be understood in light of the Cold War context.
However, irrefutable evidence indicates that to this day:
The Castro dictatorship continues to actively harbor international terrorists,
The Castro dictatorship continues to pursue a strategic alliance with terrorist states so as to create an anti-Western international front, and
The Castro dictatorship has engaged directly in terrorist attacks and espionage against Americans. As recently as July 1999 Domingo Amuchastegui, a former Cuban government official said to have exceptional information about the Cuban government, wrote: "For U.S. interests, the closeness of the [Cuban] relationship with Iraq and some of the more militant terrorist groups in the Middle East is troublesome. Can Cuba be used to carry out terrorist acts against U.S. targets? Is there any cooperation between Sadam Hussein and Castro in the development of chemical and bacteriological weapons? What remains from the close cooperation between Castro and the more militant terrorist groups in the region? (University of Miami Middle East Studies Institute, July 1999).
Evidence indicates that Cuba today continues to serve as a base for coordination and mutual support among transnational terrorist organizations. In August, Colombian authorities arrested three suspected IRA terrorists who were providing specialized training to the FARC terrorist organization. One of the men, Nial Connolly, had lived in Cuba since 1996 as the IRAs representative. (The Times, Aug. 16, 2001; BBC News, Aug. 17, 2001)
It is believed that it was in Cuba where the IRA established contact with the FARC and ELN terrorist organizations. These two organizations, according to the State Departments 2000 report on global terrorism, have "
maintained a permanent presence in the island. It is further believed that the IRA men were training the Colombian rebels in the development of powerful anti-personnel explosives destined for the proposed FARC "urban offensive."
There is additional information that indicates that the Colombian territory under FARC control has become a haven for Terror International. Argentine journalist Julio Cirino, an expert on international terrorism, has written about the existence of a logistical support base "in a small city near the Colombian border with Venezuela, where "Middle Eastern types receive fake Colombian passports and move on to other unspecified destinations. In October 1998, Interpol arrested Egyptian extremist Mohamed Enid Abdel Aal, in Bogota, Colombia. Abdel Aal, a leader of one of the most dangerous of the Islamist terrorist organizations, told authorities under questioning that "he planned to stay in Colombia for a few days and then head to Venezuela over land. (El Nuevo Herald, Sept. 16, 2001)
The Castro regime has not only continued to provide support for the vicious Basque terrorist organization ETA, known for its ghastly car bomb attacks on civilian targets, but it has also publicly attempted to scuttle diplomatic efforts to condemn it. In a 1995 raid by French police on ETA hideouts, computer files were found which clearly indicated that Cuban intelligence aided members of the group wanted for terror attacks in Spain. According to the files, Cubas Communist Party "considers its relations with ETA to be fraternal, sustained, strategic and increasingly deep." (The Miami Herald, Dec. 27, 1997)
Cuban covert support for terrorism in Spain has been accompanied by attempts at diplomatic protection. Castro not only refused to join the other Ibero-American heads of state in condemning ETA terrorism at the 2000 Ibero-American summit, he also "slammed Mexico for its support of a statement against terrorism at the Ibero American Summit in Panama. (The Miami Herald, Nov. 11, 2000).
The Cuban dictatorships continued relationship with bloody terror groups and the use of Cuban territory and diplomacy to protect them has long been a mainstay of Cuban foreign policy. As State Department reports indicate, Americans sought for crimes linked to 1960s radical groups have long received sanctuary in the island. What proves even more worrisome however, has been the recent effort by the Cuban regime to forge an "anti-Western" front with terrorist states in the Middle East.
'I Will Not Reconcile'
On Sept. 18, 2000 in an exclusive interview with the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, Castro stated that "We are not ready for reconciliation with the United States, and I will not reconcile with the imperialist system. He further added that his government had defended Cuba against "a Western cultural invasion, echoing one of the key themes of fundamentalist Islamic groups in the region.
In May 2001 Castro undertook a round of visits to Syria, Libya and Iran. Speaking at Tehran University, he insisted that "people must be informed and awakened; they must not allow themselves to be pillaged by the West. On July 26, 2001, Castro marked another anniversary of the beginning of his revolution by marching in Havana alongside the Ayatollah Khomeinis grandson, now a high-ranking Iranian official.
Biological War
The Iran-Cuba link has long worried intelligence and security analysts in the U.S. Soviet Colonel Ken Alibek, formerly second-in-command of the U.S.S.R.s bacteriological arms development program, has long insisted that the Castro regime has such weapons at its disposal. In his book "Biohazard," Alibek quotes his former boss, Gen. Yuri T. Kalinin, as having told him that Cuba had an active bacteriological arms program.
Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen stated in May 1998: "Cubas current scientific facilities could support an offensive biological warfare program in at least the research and development stage.
In October 2000, Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage and the Iranian vice minister of health inaugurated a biotechnological research and development plant outside Tehran. Experts expressed doubts about the supposed medical objectives of the installation, because Iran already produces 97 percent of the medicines its population consumes.
It is feasible to establish the links of the bin Laden network with the Iranian government and to identify its common interests with the Castro regime. Castro and bin Laden work hard to build a common front to bring down the United States and to develop biological weapons of mass destruction.
In its indictment of bin Laden, the Justice Department stated that the Al Qaeda terrorist organization under his command sought to "put aside its differences with Shiite Muslim terrorist organizations, including Iran and its affiliated terrorist group Hezbollah, to cooperate against the perceived common enemy, the United States and its allies.
The indictment further alleges that Al Qaeda "also forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in Sudan and with representatives of the government of Iran, and its associated terrorist group Hezballah.
In February 1998 Osama bin Laden announced the creation of an "international front against the United States. According to a document obtained by the PBS program "Frontline," bin Laden "regards an anti-American alliance with Iran and China as something to be considered.
But there may be more to the Castro-bin Laden connection than the Iran link. In a March 4, 2000 story the Associated Press reported: "A young Afghan who trained this winter at a camp in mountainous Kunar province, in northeastern Afghanistan, said he saw men from Chechnya, Sudan, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Cuba and North Korea. The North Korean, he said, had brought chemical weapons, which were stored in caves and in the dozens of sunbaked mud-and-stone houses.
In an official statement Sunday, the government of Grand Cayman reported that in August 2000 it had arrested three Afghan nationals who had illegally entered the country from Cuba using fake Pakistani passports.
The New York Times reported in September 1998 that advisers provided then-President Bill Clinton with evidence that "bin Laden is looking to obtain weapons of mass destruction and chemical weapons to use against U.S. installations. Is it that far-fetched to see that the ideological affinity between Cuba and Al Qaeda and the allure of bin Ladens money for Castros cash-strapped regime could easily result in the worst of scenarios?
As America prepares to build a global coalition for a definitive assault on international terrorism, it must come to grips with the fact that the enemy is a step ahead. Policy makers, legislators and analysts must not dismiss Cubas insistent efforts aimed precisely at building an anti-Western alliance, its continued support and encouragement for international terrorist organizations, or its latent capacity for biological warfare and its propensity to share it with other terrorist states directly linked to U.S. enemies.
Above all, Castros continued virulent rhetoric against the U.S. and the Western world in general must not be overlooked. It was not too long ago that Americans were the direct targets of Castroite terrorist attacks. On Feb. 24, 1996 two unarmed U.S. civilian aircraft were shot out of the sky in plain daylight in international air space, murdering three US citizens and one resident. A group of Cuban spies in Florida were recently convicted of conspiring to murder U.S. citizens, seeking to penetrate US military installations, spying on members of the U.S. Congress and providing information on Miami International Airport.
Turning a blind eye to Castro on the eve of the "first war of the 21st century" would be tantamount to ignoring the Nazi and fascist alliance with Japan the day after Pearl Harbor. The enemy is 90 miles south of Key West. And he does not hide his hatred for us.
6 posted on
09/12/2002 9:41:46 AM PDT by
Cardenas
To: westnews
Mandela added: "Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it's black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white?"
Last I checked Iraq was mostly Arabs... But then again what do I know... I'm white.
8 posted on
09/12/2002 9:43:08 AM PDT by
Nouge
To: westnews
mandela is a cold war communist.
he would slit his mother's throat for political advantage. he would murder his own wife or child for a little press.
9 posted on
09/12/2002 9:43:57 AM PDT by
xzins
To: westnews
It's unfortunate that his terrorist (Mandela) isn't still rotting away in an So. African prison.
10 posted on
09/12/2002 9:44:29 AM PDT by
Mr. Mojo
To: westnews
Mandela Kofi have only one definition of "peace", lack of opposition to communism, some things never change.
13 posted on
09/12/2002 9:47:16 AM PDT by
dalereed
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rope
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Words are important here. To Communists, "World Peace" is the ultimate goal of all their efforts, the codeword which back in the USSR days would appear as "MIR"
usually this would appear as in "the struggle for world peace".
So Mandela is absolutely correct. Bush and some Americans (definitely not the Democrats and other assorted lefties) is what stands in the way of the MIR goal of Communist victory...
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Mandela: U.S. a threat to world peaceU.S.: Mandela a threat to world sanity
17 posted on
09/12/2002 9:55:38 AM PDT by
Gumlegs
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Wow!!! Cheney opposed Mandela's release? Good for him!.
Hey, why was Mandela in prison in the first place? Oh that's right - he was part of a terrorist conspiracy which set off a car bomb in Cape Town that killed small children.
So both Cheney and Mandela are consistent: our VP has always opposed terrorism and Mugabe-Lite has always supported it.
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Mandela added: "Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it's black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white?" Excuse me???
This isn't about color .. this is about a Madman that wants to kill Americans and anyone who stands in his way ..
I can't believe he made a comment like that .. sounds like something Jesse Jackson would say
19 posted on
09/12/2002 9:59:07 AM PDT by
Mo1
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Mandela added: "Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it's black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white?"Mandela's brains are scrambled if he thinks Iraqis are 'black' and that people, like Mandela, who stand idly by in a part of the world which destroys more human lives and potential than any other have much meaningful criticism to provide about the US. The average life span in some places of sub-Saharan Africa is dropping below 40 years! How can Mandela turn away from that and yammer about the US?
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This from the ANC, the party that invented "necklacing" -- burning their political opponents alive trapped in a tire full of gasoline.
That's definitely a voice that's going to make me search MY conscience.
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Something must first exist in order to be threatened. 9/11/01 proves that world peace does not exist (as if anyone could claim that it did). Therefore our actions cannot threaten it.
Taking Saddam out will arguably increase the likelihood of world peace. So his statement would make more sense if he said "world peace depends on attacking Iraq.) Oh wait, that's what GW said...
24 posted on
09/12/2002 10:11:30 AM PDT by
5by5
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Mandela added: "Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it's black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white?" Well, this remark really reveals Mandela's mindset, doesn't?
White=Bad
Black=Good
And Black=Anyone who IS NOT white. I mean, if he considers Tariq Aziz "black" he must consider all sorts of other ethic groups "black".
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USA to Madela: Idiot!
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Mandela told Newsweek magazine that President George W. Bush's decision to seek regime change in Iraq was motivated by the desire to please the U.S. arms and oil industries. How does he know that? Where's the evidence? None, guilt by proximity. Typical mindless liberalism. I keep hearing assertions like these from my liberal friends, but none of them can ever , not once, back up their claims.
And its the left that beat up on Bush for evidence about Iraq's threat.
29 posted on
09/12/2002 4:14:20 PM PDT by
mikenola
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