FBI: Cuban boat with 15 to 20 on board hijacked, drifting in international waters

AP | 4/02/03

[kattracks]

FBI: Cuban boat with 15 to 20 on board hijacked, drifting in international waters

The Associated Press
4/2/03 9:28 AM

MIAMI (AP) -- A Cuban boat was hijacked Wednesday morning and was drifting in international waters about 60 miles off Key West, the FBI said. It was the second hijacking from Cuba in as many days.

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said the Cuban government has told the agency that the craft is a 45-foot pleasure boat with 15 to 20 people on board. The FBI is sending hostage negotiators to the scene by helicopter, she said. Further details were not immediately available.

The U.S. Coast Guard in Miami and the Cuban government in Havana both declined immediate comment.

The hijacking comes a day after a Cuban airliner was hijacked from the communist island to Key West, allegedly by a man carrying fake hand grenades. Last month, a group of six men hijacked another Cuban airliner to Key West, authorities say.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

It's Elian and he's coming back to get Reno!

[Republican Wildcat]

good grief. This is the third Cuban hijacking in a month. What is going on down there?

[GovGirl]

Does this mean that serving time in the US is better than anything Cuba has? Fidel must be losing his grip.

[GovGirl]

Does this mean that serving time in the US is better than anything Cuba has? Fidel must be losing his grip.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Agreed

Something is up in Coooooooooooba

I wonder if Fidel Castro (D) Havana is panicing over Iraq, fears he's next and the words out on the street?

Maybe the CIA is loose and casuing a stir, folks are bailing?

Maybe people are just taking atvantage of the war to bolt?

TMMT