Libya lashes out at what it sees as American allegations that it exchanged biotechnology with Cuba***TRIPOLI, Libya, May 08, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- The Libyan government denounced what it said are American charges that Cuba shared bioweapons technology with the north African country, saying that such "empty allegations" constitute terrorism. "This is no more than the usual ways that America uses to wage campaigns against people, by resorting to threat, terrorism and extortion," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassouna al-Shawish said Tuesday. His remarks were carried by Libya's official newsagency, JANA.***
Wall Street Journal Bush's Cuba Pickle Castro is evil, but the embargo is foolish. *** It's true that easing the embargo might benefit Fidel in the short term, by releasing some of the pent-up discontent with his failures. And we sympathize with principled anti-Communists like Mr. Reich. But we yield to no one in our loathing of Fidel's island gulag. And lifting the embargo would, as we wrote in these columns back in 1994, "help precisely those forces that are most likely to liberate Cuba's economic and political power structure."***