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Edited on Sun Jan-29-06 12:29 AM by Judi Lynn
Cuba, that very SMALL island, has been conducting acts of terrorism against other countries, fully aware that the giant country to the North would gleefully squash Cuba flat if it had any possible excuse to do so. I'd really like a good long look at your sources for that claim. Here's only SOME of the thousands of individual terrorism conducted against Cubans over the last 4+ decades:
Terrorist provocations against Cuba A selection of items retrieved from news sources, 1992-96 By Ruch Wayne Millar, Saksatoon, Canada, 18 April 1996 In an attempt to try to understand why Cuba shot down the two Cessnas at such an inopportune time, I did some research. The following excerpts from online news services, radio reports, magazines and other sources illuminate the reasons for their actions. I'm sure there were many more instances to add to the list.
ARMED PARAMILITARY COMMANDOS ARRESTED Seven anti-Castro Cubans armed with automatic weapons landed in Cuba on October 15, killing one local resident and attempting to steal a vehicle before Cuban authorities arrested them. The seven, captured after a shootout with security forces, left for Cuba from a third country in order to avoid violating the US Neutrality Law, which prohibits launching armed operations from the US. They are members of the Miami-based Democratic National Unity Party (PUND), which claimed responsibility for their action.
REPORT ON CIA PLOTS TO KILL FIDEL CASTRO RELEASED Havana --The most detailed report to date on the US Central Intelligence Agency's plotting with Mafia bosses to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro, has just come to light in Washington. The report, covering the period of the early 60s, was declassified last week and passed on to public archives. The document gives detailed information on the CIA execution action capability program, described as a preparedness plan for carrying out assassination actions whenever deemed necessary. The report documents plans for using poisoned cigars and ball point pens for murdering the Cuban leader. It quotes statements from William Harvey, the CIA officer in charge of coordinating the assassination plans, suggesting the involvement of the highest level of the US government.
CASTRO TARGET OF ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT An alleged assassination attempt was made on the life of Fidel Castro last April, according to the magazine Vanity Fair. The attempts on April 21 involved five men with machine guns who surrounded his car and opened fire as the vehicle left his home in suburban Havana. A Cuban identified as "Marta" learned this information from family members in the Cuban government. She was quoted as saying Castro's security squad, riding in the car behind his, killed the would-be assassins. Castro's chauffeur was wounded in the arm. The article also said a rumour circulated at the same time, a a conference of Cuban exiles in Havana, that the Cuban leader had been assassinated or died of natural causes. On the last day of the conference April 24, Castro met with the exiles.
EPIDEMIC CAUSED BY "UNKNOWN POISON" A house-to-house vitamin distribution program has quelled an epidemic that sickened more than 50,000 Cubans, but the cause of the malady remains a mystery. Bjorn Thylefors, head a a World Health Organization investigation team, said a combination of an unknown poison and poor nutrition in Cuba apparently was to blame.
US CONDONED BOMBING OF CUBAN AIRLINER Termed by Secretary of state Warren Christopher as "an uncivilized act" the integrity of Cuban air space does not also require a defense to those who pardoned the plotters of the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 or fired a missile on and Iranian passenger plane over the Persian Gulf. Uncivilized acts are indeed a 37-year relentless campaign of terror, sabotage, assassination, disease, starvation and genocide conducted by a major power over a peaceful people. . Orlando Bosch, and the brothers Ignacior and Guillermo Novo Sampol were convicted and later absolved in Venezuela for blowing up a Cuban passenger jet in 1975 , killing all 73 people on board.
BOAT FULL OF GUNS, EXPLOSIVES Nine Cuban-American arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard last week in the Florida keys with a boat full of guns and explosives were indicted on may 26 by a federal grand jury for violating U.S. weapons laws. The accused are members of the anti-Castro paramilitary group Alpha 66.
ALPHA 66 THREATENS TOURISTS On November 6, 1993 Canadian newspapers, particularly those from Montreal, ran disturbing headlines: Alpha 66, an anti-Cuban group from Miami. announced that starting on November 27, tourists travelling to Cuba would be attacked by Alpha 66 members operating in Cuba. In the following months, travel wholesalers in Montreal also receive death threats. "Adding insult to injury is the fact that in this same week the anti- Castro terrorist group Alpha 66 announced that it now considered tourists in Cuba as justifiable targets for kidnappings and assassinations. Since Canadian tourists make up the largest single group of tourists in Cubaa ... it is clear that we constitute the largest probable target."
"COMMANDOS L" THREATENS TOURISTS According to an article in the Jan. 23 edition of the daily Jersey Journal, Tony Bryant, the new leader of the Cuban exile group Commandos L, has "warned international tourists to stay away" from Cuba, saying "We're going to attack them." Last October, Commandos L sprayed the hotel Melia at the Varadero beach tourist resort with gunfire in what bryant told his audience was meant as a message to tourists.
ALPHA 66 ATTACK TOURIST HOTEL The anti-Castro paramilitary group Alpha 66 announced in Florida that several of its commandos attacked a tourist hotel on the northern coast of Cuba on Mar. 11, marking the start of a campaign against the island's tourist industry. According to Alpha 66, no one was hurt in the attack from the commandos' small boat offshore or by the fire returned by Cuban security forces. "All the Cuban tourist centres are military objectives for Alpha 66," said the group's military chief, Humberto Perez. Perez said the attack was launched from a base located outside the US, though it was coordinated in Miami; US legislation prohibits the launching of armed attacks from US territory against nations that are not at war with the US. Alpha 66 had threatened to begin attacks against foreign tourists in Cuba beginning Nov. 27
BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE FLIGHTS PROHIBITED At a Mar. 31 press conference in the Miami area, US representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, both Florida Republicans of Cuban-American origin, blasted the Pentagon's recent decision to prohibit flights to the migrant camps at the US Guantanamo naval base in Cuba by the Anti-Castro organization "Brothers to the Rescue." According to a letter from Under-Secretary of Defense H. Allen Holmes to Ros-Lehtinen, the group was banned from Guantanamo because the Cuban government formally complained to the US Interests Section in Havana that on Nov. 10, 1994, two of its planes tried to distribute leaflets not only over the camps on the US base, but also within Cuban territory.
ARMED PARAMILITARY COMMANDO ARRESTED IN CUBA On Oct. 15, seven anti-Castro Cubans armed with automatic rifles landed illegally at Caibarien on Cuba's north central shore; they attempted to steal a vehicle, killed a local resident who was fishing, and were arrested several hours later after a shootout with Cuban authorities and a local guard. Three of the seven were slightly injured in the shootout. Cuban state-run media reported that the infiltrators were dressed in camouflage and armed with AK, M-16 and R-15 assault rifles, as well as pistols, military supplies and "enemy propaganda." Miami on Oct. 17, Sergio Gonzalez Rosquete of the Florida-based anti-Castro Democratic National Unity Party (PUND) said his organization was responsible for the action. ... On Oct. 18 Gonzalez explained that the commandos had departed on their mission from a third Caribbean country in order to avoid violating the US Neutrality Law, which prohibits launching armed actions from US territory against foreign countries.
CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS EXONERATION OF CUBAN ASSASSIN AND HIJACKER IN MIAMI EQUIVALENT TO CONDONING TERRORISM Havana - Cuba has warned that the release of Leonel Macias who murdered Cuban navy officer and hijacked a vessel to the United States last August is equivalent to condoning terrorism. ... Leonel Macias assassinated Cuban navy officer Roberto Aguilar in Mariel Bay last August 8th and hijacked a vessel, later picking up 24 passengers. Foreign Ministry official Rafael Dausa told Cuban Radio Rebelde that Cuba presented a video, and eye witness statements concerning the murder and statements to the effect that Macias himself admitted shooting the Cuban navy officer, US courts, however, did not take this evidence into consideration. Three witnesses belonging to the same navy squadron as Macias, said the hijacker pulled out a gun and shot the only other armed member of the crew. Macias immediately pointed the gun at the three unarmed witnesses and ordered them to throw themselves overboard. Their statements were aired live on national TV in Cuba.
US GRANTS ASYLUM TO ALLEGED MURDERER On Apr. 17, an INS appeals court granted political asylum to Leonel Macias Gonzalez, accused by the Cuban government of assaulting a government boat and murdering a Cuban naval official last Aug. 8. The 19-year old Cuban initially received asylum in February, but the US government had appealed the measure.
FLOTILLA ORGANIZED TO VIOLATE CUBAN JURISDICTION WASHINGTON - Spokesmen of the "Antonio Maceo" Brigade, a moderate emigrant group ... said "paramilitary organizations" are preparing a caravan of vessels and airplanes with the purpose of violating the jurisdictional borders and the sovereignty of Cuba. According to the group, Raul Sanchez, one of the "flotilla" ringleaders, is a well-known terrorist who has been under federal investigations and in the 80s was put in jail for several months for these activities.
ARMED PARAMILITARY COMMANDOS ARRESTED Seven anti-Castro Cubans armed with automatic weapons landed in Cuba on October 15, killing one local resident and attempting to steal a vehicle before Cuban authorities arrested them. The seven, captured after a shootout with security forces, left for Cuba from a third country in order to avoid violating the US Neutrality Law, which prohibits launching armed operations from the US. They are members of the Miami-based Democratic National Unity Party (PUND), which claimed responsibility for their action.
ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO BUY MISSILES Two anti-Castro Cuban paramilitary leaders were arrested on June 2 in Miami on charges that they sought to buy a Stinger missile and other advanced weapons from an undercover US federal agent posing as a corrupt army sergeant. The two, Rodolfo Frometa and Fausto Marimon, are prominent members of Commandos F-4, a group that split off from another anti-Castro paramilitary organization, Alpha 66, earlier this spring. ... Frometa and marimon were among seven Alpha 66 members taken into custody after Coast guard officials found a cache of weapons, ammunition and money in their 18-foot boat, as they were en route to Cuba to carry out a military action.
TERRORISTS ATTEMPT TO FIREBOMB WAREHOUSE On Nov. 2, FBI agents arrested three men from another rightwing terrorist organization in southern Florida as they attempted to firebomb a warehouse full of humanitarian aid collected by Cuban American seeking an end to the embargo. The aid was shipped to Cuba with the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment caravan ....
ANTI-CASTRO PARAMILITARIES SENTENCED IN FLORIDA On Dec. 20, a federal judge in Miami sentenced two anti-Castro Cuban emigre paramilitary leaders for attempting to buy high- powered weapons from an undercover federal agent. The two, Rodolfo Frometa and Fausto Marimon, were arrested on June 2 and convicted in September. Leaders of the paramilitary group Commandos F-4, Frometa and Marimon planned to use the explosives, grenades, anti-tank missiles and other weapons for attacks on tourist spots in Cuba. Frometa was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, while Marimon got one year of prison and two of conditional liberty.
NEWSPAPER BOMBED The New York offices of El Diario-La Prensa were bombed after the paper ran an editorial endorsing exile visits. The wording of the cover story in New Republic implicated wealthy Cuban exile leader Jorge Mas Canosa, dubbed by the magazine as "Clinton's Miami Mobster".
10 VIOLATIONS OF AIR SPACE REPORTED 1994-1996 A chronology posted by the Cuban Interest Section in Washington on the APC computer networks February 26, 1996, itemized 10 violations of Cuban air space from 1994 to 1996 alone: May 15, May 25, May 29, Nov 10 of 1994; April 4, July 13 of 1995; and Jan. 9 and 13 of 1996. Notification of almost all these incidents were sent by diplomatic note to the United States Interest Section in Havana soon after their occurrence.
CUBAN-AMERICAN CHARGED WITH PLOTTING CUBA INVASION On Jan. 4, a federal judge denied bail to two of three Cuban- American accused of stockpiling an arsenal of weapons and masterminding a plan to invade Cuba and spark an armed rebellion against the government there. Rene Cruz, his son--also named Rene Cruz--and Rafael Garcia were arrested on Dec. 16 by FBI agents who raided the warehouse of Remarc International, a ... business in Huntington Beach owned by the older Cruz. The three face charges of conspiracy to violate the Neutrality Act; they could face up to eight years in prison if convicted. At the warehouse federal agents seized three MAC-90 "sniper" rifles, 18 AK-47 assault rifles, a number of hand grenades and 14,000 rounds of ammunition, plus bullet-proof vests, radio equipment, maps of Cuba, air navigation maps, night vision glasses, and plans in Spanish detailing an invasion of Cuba.
BROTHERS ON THE ATTACK On March 7, 1996, CBC Radio reported that "Havana accuses pilots with Brothers to the Rescue of firing on civilians in Cuba, setting fire to crops, spreading chemical defoliants on Cuban soil and dropping propaganda leaflets." CBC also reported that Brothers to the Rescue had dropped an explosive device over Cuba, but did not cite details.
(snip/...) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/142.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You can be sure I've got TONS of items to post. Here's a list of only SOME of the terrorism conducted by Miami "exiles" within the States over political matters: Mullin The Burden of a Violent History By Jim Mullin Article Published Apr 20, 2000
1968 From MacArthur Causeway, pediatrician Orlando Bosch fires bazooka at a Polish freighter. (City of Miami later declares "Orlando Bosch Day." Federal agents will jail him in 1988.)
1972 Julio Iglesias, performing at a local nightclub, says he wouldn't mind "singing in front of Cubans." Audience erupts in anger. Singer requires police escort. Most radio stations drop Iglesias from playlists. One that doesn't, Radio Alegre, receives bomb threats.
1974 Exile leader José Elias de la Torriente murdered in his Coral Gables home after failing to carry out a planned invasion of Cuba.
1974 Bomb blast guts the office of Spanish-language magazine Replica.
1974 Several small Cuban businesses, citing threats, stop selling Replica.
1974 Three bombs explode near a Spanish-language radio station.
1974 Hector Diaz Limonta and Arturo Rodriguez Vives murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
1975 Luciano Nieves murdered after advocating peaceful coexistence with Cuba.
1975 Another bomb damages Replica's office.
1976 Rolando Masferrer and Ramon Donestevez murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
1976 Car bomb blows off legs of WQBA-AM news director Emilio Milian after he publicly condemns exile violence.
1977 Juan José Peruyero murdered in internecine exile power struggles.
1979 Cuban film Memories of Underdevelopment interrupted by gunfire and physical violence instigated by two exile groups.
1979 Bomb discovered at Padron Cigars, whose owner helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.
1979 Bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
1980 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
1980 Powerful anti-personnel bomb discovered at American Airways Charter, which arranges flights to Cuba.
1981 Bomb explodes at Mexican Consulate on Brickell Avenue in protest of relations with Cuba.
1981 Replica's office again damaged by a bomb.
1982 Two outlets of Hispania Interamericana, which ships medicine to Cuba, attacked by gunfire.
1982 Bomb explodes at Venezuelan Consulate in downtown Miami in protest of relations with Cuba.
1982 Bomb discovered at Nicaraguan Consulate.
1982 Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre defends $10,000 grant to exile commando group Alpha 66 by noting that the organization "has never been accused of terrorist activities inside the United States."
1983 Another bomb discovered at Replica.
1983 Another bomb explodes at Padron Cigars.
1983 Bomb explodes at Paradise International, which arranges travel to Cuba.
1983 Bomb explodes at Little Havana office of Continental National Bank, one of whose executives, Bernardo Benes, helped negotiate release of 3600 Cuban political prisoners.
1983 Miami City Commissioner Demetrio Perez seeks to honor exile terrorist Juan Felipe de la Cruz, accidentally killed while assembling a bomb. (Perez is now a member of the Miami-Dade County Public School Board and owner of the Lincoln-Martí private school where Elian Gonzalez is enrolled.)
1983 Gunfire shatters windows of three Little Havana businesses linked to Cuba.
1986 South Florida Peace Coalition members physically attacked in downtown Miami while demonstrating against Nicaraguan contra war.
1987 Bomb explodes at Cuba Envios, which ships packages to Cuba.
1987 Bomb explodes at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to Cuba.
1987 Bomb explodes at Cubanacan, which ships packages to Cuba.
1987 Car belonging to Bay of Pigs veteran is firebombed.
1987 Bomb explodes at Machi Viajes a Cuba, which arranges travel to Cuba.
1987 Bomb explodes outside Va Cuba, which ships packages to Cuba.
1988 Bomb explodes at Miami Cuba, which ships medical supplies to Cuba.
1988 Bomb threat against Iberia Airlines in protest of Spain's relations with Cuba.
1988 Bomb explodes outside Cuban Museum of Art and Culture after auction of paintings by Cuban artists.
1988 Bomb explodes outside home of Maria Cristina Herrera, organizer of a conference on U.S.-Cuba relations.
1988 Bomb threat against WQBA-AM after commentator denounces Herrera bombing.
1988 Bomb threat at local office of Immigration and Naturalization Service in protest of terrorist Orlando Bosch being jailed.
1988 Bomb explodes near home of Griselda Hidalgo, advocate of unrestricted travel to Cuba.
1988 Bomb damages Bele Cuba Express, which ships packages to Cuba.
1989 Another bomb discovered at Almacen El Español, which ships packages to Cuba.
1989 Two bombs explode at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba.
1990 Another, more powerful, bomb explodes outside the Cuban Museum of Art and Culture.
1991 Using crowbars and hammers, exile crowd rips out and urinates on Calle Ocho "Walk of Fame" star of Mexican actress Veronica Castro, who had visited Cuba.
1992 Union Radio employee beaten and station vandalized by exiles looking for Francisco Aruca, who advocates an end to U.S. embargo.
1992 Cuban American National Foundation mounts campaign against the Miami Herald, whose executives then receive death threats and whose newsracks are defaced and smeared with feces.
1992 Americas Watch releases report stating that hard-line Miami exiles have created an environment in which "moderation can be a dangerous position."
1993 Inflamed by Radio Mambí commentator Armando Perez-Roura, Cuban exiles physically assault demonstrators lawfully protesting against U.S. embargo. Two police officers injured, sixteen arrests made. Miami City Commissioner Miriam Alonso then seeks to silence anti-embargo demonstrators: "We have to look at the legalities of whether the City of Miami can prevent them from expressing themselves."
1994 Human Rights Watch/Americas Group issues report stating that Miami exiles do not tolerate dissident opinions, that Spanish-language radio promotes aggression, and that local government leaders refuse to denounce acts of intimidation.
1994 Two firebombs explode at Replica magazine's office.
1994 Bomb threat to law office of Magda Montiel Davis following her videotaped exchange with Fidel Castro.
1996 Music promoter receives threatening calls, cancels local appearance of Cuba's La Orquesta Aragon.
1996 Patrons attending concert by Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba physically assaulted by 200 exile protesters. Transportation for exiles arranged by Dade County Commissioner Javier Souto.
1996 Firebomb explodes at Little Havana's Centro Vasco restaurant preceding concert by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes.
1996 Firebomb explodes at Marazul Charters, which arranges travel to Cuba.
1996 Arson committed at Tu Familia Shipping, which ships packages to Cuba.
1997 Bomb threats, death threats received by radio station WRTO-FM following its short-lived decision to include in its playlist songs by Cuban musicians.
1998 Bomb threat empties concert hall at MIDEM music conference during performance by 91-year-old Cuban musician Compay Segundo.
1998 Bomb threat received by Amnesia nightclub in Miami Beach preceding performance by Cuban musician Orlando "Maraca" Valle.
1998 Firebomb explodes at Amnesia nightclub preceding performance by Cuban singer Manolín.
1999 Violent protest at Miami Arena performance of Cuban band Los Van Van leaves one person injured, eleven arrested.
1999 Bomb threat received by Seville Hotel in Miami Beach preceding performance by Cuban singer Rosita Fornes. Hotel cancels concert.
January 26, 2000 Outside Miami Beach home of Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, protester displays sign reading, "Stop the deaths at sea. Repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act," then is physically assaulted by nearby exile crowd before police come to rescue.
April 11, 2000 Outside home of Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives, radio talk show host Scot Piasant of Portland, Oregon, displays T-shirt reading, "Send the boy home" and "A father's rights," then is physically assaulted by nearby exile crowd before police come to rescue. (snip/) http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin_2.html~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~On edit: I just remembered the first article only goes to 1996, so it doesn't include more recent acts of terrorism like the Cubans caught in Panama, all terrorists, including former CIA employee, and bomber/mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles with a sufficient amount of plastic bomb material in their plot to bomb the completely filled huge auditorium in which Fidel Castro was scheduled to speak. I forgot the fact the Cubans in Miami started hiring poor men from Latin America to become their bomb workers in Cuba, carrying in and planting bombs, and blowing up the place. Some of them have been caught, tried, and confessed to their crimes and who hired them. I have not includedd events like recent capture of Miami Cuban "exiles" found fully armed IN CUBA who got there by boat, sneaking around to commit mayhem there. I didn't include the boasts from one of the terrorists groups in Miami that they found a Cuban spy who had returned home to Cuba and had gone there and shot him to death. There is a very, very long list.
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