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"On May 27, [1966,] 166 Cubans -- civilians and members of the military -- were executed and submitted to medical procedures of blood extraction of an average of seven pints per person. This blood is sold to Communist Vietnam at a rate of $50 per pint with the dual purpose of obtaining hard currency and contributing to the Vietcong Communist aggression. "A pint of blood is equivalent to half a liter. Extracting this amount of blood from a person sentenced to death produces cerebral anemia and a state of unconsciousness and paralysis. Once the blood is extracted, the person is...

Bloodstained uniforms found in hunt for PoWs By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 09/04/2003) United States Marines have found blood-stained American uniforms and chemical weapons suits in a Baghdad military jail, the Pentagon said yesterday, but no trace of seven captured soldiers paraded on Iraqi television. Hundreds of marines raided a military prison at Rashid airfield in south eastern Baghdad early yesterday following a lead that US prisoners of war were there. Instead they found six pairs of camouflage trousers, and two chemical protection jackets. Two items bore the name tags of soldiers listed as captured. "Some of the uniform...