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Open your eyes - Cuba belongs on list--[Excerpt] Yet I cannot help but remember thousands killed by terrorists in the past 20 years in Northern Ireland, or by car bombs in Colombia and Spain, as well as those killed in the 1950s by Fidel Castro's "urban guerrillas." Some people would classify those terrorists as "freedom fighters." Funny. That's what some people call Osama bin Laden.

The fact that Cuba has been -- and most likely still is -- a safe haven and training ground for the FARC, ETA and IRA "freedom fighters," or that just a few months ago Castro was the only "president" who didn't sign a document denouncing the ETA and its terrorism, does not make a difference to the 16 distinguished organizations looking to support him. [End Excerpt]

Castro and International Terrorism--[Excerpt] Castro cultivates the alliance of other devotee warmonger/U.S.-hating tyrants such as Iraq's Saddam Hussein as well as other state sponsors of terrorism in the Middle East and other parts of the world. Curiously, they all appear on the U.S. State Department's "Patterns of Global Terrorism - 2000," released on April 30, 2001. This is an annual report sent to Congress that has been listing Cuba since 1993; see U.S. Cuba Policy Report, April 30, 2001, page 9. Castro developed a relationship with Saddam Hussein since both share a fondness for bacteriological weapons. In a September 1997 article by Jonathan T. Stride titled "Who Will Check Out Fidel Castro's New Chemical/Biological Weapons Plant in East Havana?", Castro's chemical/biological weapons factories are exposed - probably based on a Confidential Report translated from Spanish on February 1997. [End Excerpt]

Secret arms shipments from China to Cuba reported-- U.S. won't confirm allegations, which cite intelligence officials

[Excerpt] At least three arms shipments were traced from China to the Cuban port of Mariel during the past several months, according to an article Tuesday in the Washington Times. All the arms were aboard vessels belonging to the state-owned China Ocean Shipping Co., or Cosco, U.S. intelligence officials told the newspaper.

The explosives were said to be ``military-grade'' material, the newspaper said.

U.S. officials said Tuesday that the subject of arms trafficking between China and Cuba is a worrisome one, though they stopped short of confirming the Washington Times account.

``We are very much concerned with this PLA [People's Liberation Army] cooperation and movement of military equipment in Cuba,'' said James Kelly, assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs, when questioned during a hearing of the House International Relations subcommittee. [End Excerpt]