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Castro hands power to brother during surgery
CNN ^ | 7/31/06 | CNN

Posted on 07/31/2006 6:33:36 PM PDT by tdewey10

Cuban President Fidel Castro is transferring power provisionally to brother Raul while he undergoes an operation, Cuban TV announces.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Cuba; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: castro; castrodeath; cuba; deathwatch; fidel; geopolitics; havana; ill; intestinalcrisis; latinamerica; raul; raulcastro
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Are we nearing the end?
1 posted on 07/31/2006 6:33:37 PM PDT by tdewey10
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To: tdewey10

Reuters - FIDEL CASTRO UNDERGOES INTESTINAL OPERATION, DELEGATES GOVERNMENT PROVISIONALLY TO BROTHER RAUL - GOVERNMENT STATEMENT


2 posted on 07/31/2006 6:34:11 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: tdewey10

DIE YOU BASTARD!!!!


3 posted on 07/31/2006 6:34:14 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: tdewey10

Double lobotomy... Oh wait.....


4 posted on 07/31/2006 6:34:20 PM PDT by lumber1 (It is not what you do now, but what they will do later with what you've "done now" that matters.)
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To: tdewey10

Hmmm, I wonder if the commie trusts his brother Raul not to pull the plug on him?


5 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:11 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: HAL9000

May his surgeon be a relative of one of his victims.


6 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:12 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: tdewey10
Lets hope his lunatic brother Raoul doesn't decide to go on a killing spree.

It takes a pretty sick psycho to be considered even more dangerious and hardline then Fidel Castro.

7 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:14 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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Good thing healthcare is free in Cuba, Fidel won't have to pay a cent.


8 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lumber1

Sex change?


9 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:31 PM PDT by airborne (Satan's greatest trick was convincing people he doesn't exist.)
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To: tdewey10

RIP(pieces)


10 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:48 PM PDT by umgud (Gov't needs a Department of Common Sense)
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To: tdewey10

Let's hope so. I say take him now, Lord. How can Castro live and so many good people pass away?


11 posted on 07/31/2006 6:35:48 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Knowledge is power, so the MSM makes sure the terrorists have our classified info.)
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To: tdewey10

He is either already dead or is not expected to survive this surgery. We can only hope.


12 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:18 PM PDT by TommyDale (It's time to dismiss the Duke fake rape case, Mr. Nifong!)
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To: airborne

Her name will be Phylis in the morning!!


13 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:22 PM PDT by mmyers
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To: tdewey10
Please pump him full of formaldehyde.
14 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:26 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: The Bronze Titan

what is Miami saying?

Is there a resistance or counter group that would overthrow Raul?


15 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:28 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Moderate Mooslims.....what's that?)
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To: tdewey10

We can hope, for the Cuban people.


16 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:43 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: tdewey10

Can we put a missle into his operating room?


17 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:52 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: elhombrelibre

It seems like lefties never die, doesn't it?


18 posted on 07/31/2006 6:36:58 PM PDT by clintonh8r (To err is human; to forgive, divine. Neither is Marine Corps policy.)
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To: tdewey10

He's dead, Jim.

(Hope so.)


19 posted on 07/31/2006 6:37:00 PM PDT by maggief
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To: HAL9000

From www.therealcuba.

CASTRO GRAVELY ILL

POWER IS TRANSFERRED TO HIS BROTHER

THE CUBAN RADIO ANNOUNCED TONIGHT THAT CUBAN DICTATOR FIDEL CASTRO HAS

TEMPORARILY STEPPED DOWN AS "PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF" AND THAT

IS HAVING EMERGENCY SURGERY TO STOP AN INTESTINAL BLEEDING.

CASTRO TRANSFERRED POWER TO HIS BROTHER.


20 posted on 07/31/2006 6:37:05 PM PDT by tdewey10 (It's time for the party to return to the principles of President Reagan.)
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