Posted on 12/17/2014 6:55:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Held for five years in Cuba, 65-year-old American contractor Alan Gross has been released from prison and is en route to U.S. soil, ABC News has learned exclusively.
In a landmark humanitarian prisoner exchange to be announced by President Obama shortly at the White House, the agreement was reached following more than a year of secret back channel talks at the highest levels of both governments.
Todays release of Gross, who is said to be in poor physical condition, represents a first step toward normalizing relations with the neighbor just 90-miles off the Florida coast.
Gross was convicted of espionage by a Cuban court in 2011 and sentenced to 15 years for bringing telecommunication devices into Cuba while working as a subcontractor for United States Agency for International Development.
The Cuban government accused him of being party to a U.S.-led plot to overthrow the government through an Arab spring.
Following a recent visit, Gross attorney described him as nearly toothless, barely able to walk because of arthritis in his hips and blind in one eye. He has been kept in a small room at a military hospital 24 hours a day with two other Cuban political prisoners.
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http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/12/17/cuban-american-senators-blast-obamas-decision-to-swap-cuban-spies-for-american-aide-worker/
please remove...wrote russia rather than cuba...thanks
Obama sucks. He gets 1 for 3, but it’s better than his Gitmo deal which set the all time record for bad.
“Gross was convicted of espionage by a Cuban court in 2011 and sentenced to 15 years”
I’ll bet he lost his constitutional right to bare arms
here at home if the charge is consistent with a felony
in this country.
The American media is still ignoring Cuban government mistreatment of Cuban Jews, a fact that Gross was spreading.
A Marxist leaning Pope blessed the Marxist American president embrace of Castros genocide communist regime condemning the Cuban enslaved people to eternal damnation. On the deal Castro liberated an American illegally imprisoned in Cuba in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban spies serving prison terms in U.S. and the normalization of relations with a country that occupied for decades a top position in the list of the State Department s terrorist countries. The Cuban regime tried to obliterate New York and Washington with a nuclear attack during the October Missile Crisis of 1962. In November 1962, the Castro brothers and Che Guevaras agents had targeted Macys, Gimbels, Bloomingdales, and Manhattans Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The Holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving.
To complete Obamas betrayal of the American people, with the normalization of relations comes the opening to Cuba of the American and International bank credits that will sustain the Cuban regimen passing to the American taxpayers the same heavy burden that helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
They also ignore that Cuba is one of the most repressive countries of gay people. You’d think the liberals would be screaming about that.
On the deal Castro liberated an American illegally imprisoned in Cuba in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban spies serving prison terms in U.S. and the normalization of relations with a country that occupied for decades a top position in the list of the State Department s terrorist countries.
When The FBI Tracked Terror-SuspectsLiterally!
Humberto Fontova | May 10, 2013
Apples and oranges.
I have no problem with this. The American gets freed and goes home. Americans get to have commerce with their neighbor. American business benefits. Rush and other Americans can get good cigars.
If we examined and listened to the various lying media every country has problems with government behavior towards its people. For Pete’s sake we gave (no not “we” but the traitors in DC that we pay and who failed to defend our national interests with balanced trade) gave the Commies in China our economy. China is just as non-democratic as Cuba.
I never figured out why we didn’t start restoring relations 30 years ago and create commerce and improve relations. Instead handful of ex-Cubans with a chip on their shoulder controlled US policy. Maybe if I was a Cuban that went through it I’d think differently, but I’m not.
We WILL negotiate with terrorists!
It will be nice when we get this communist out of office!
But it had a kernel of truth. As he did release terrorist commie spies in the spy swap.
Commie president and commie pope:
(Reuters) - The Vatican leveraged its good relations with Cuba and the United States to help broker their historic resumption of ties and the deal was spurred by letters from Pope Francis to the presidents of both countries.
The Vatican, which facilitated the agreement along with Canada, gave some details of its role in a statement shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama announced the major policy shift by Washington to resume diplomatic ties after decades of hostility with the communist-ruled island.
The pope wrote letters to Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in recent months, “and invited them to resolve humanitarian questions of common interest including the situation of certain prisoners, in order to initiate a new phase in relations between the two parties,” the statement said.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/cuba-usa-vatican-idINKBN0JV29X20141217
IMO Gross can pound sand, dopey leftist, Unicorn’s poop Skittle’s believer. I couldn’t watch the end of his press conference, did someone hand him a hankie to wipe off the Obama juice off his chin?
“Commie president and commie pope”
Can’t discount this, after all the Pope was from South America, plenty of Commie sentiment down there. I have ehard enough from this Pope to not discount this one bit.
The evil opposites of Reagan and John Paul II, trying hard to bring down the West.
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