Tape contradicts Ros-Lehtinen (Castro assassination comments)

[Mika]

Tape contradicts Ros-Lehtinen
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/front/16278450.htm
The director of a documentary on Fidel Castro says
he's awaiting an apology from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
who had accused him of distorting her comments.

An Emmy Award-winning documentarian, angered over Miami Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's charge that a video in which she appears to endorse the assassination of Fidel Castro was altered to make her look more extreme, is circulating another version of the video to make his case.

The uncut version of director Dollan Cannell's video shows Ros-Lehtinen twice welcoming an attempt on Castro's life.

''Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has made a very serious accusation against the team who made the films,'' Cannell said Tuesday. ``You can't get more serious than that in terms of an accusation of gross professional wrongdoing.

''Her accusation is completely, totally false,'' he added. ``I'd like her to retract what she said and to apologize.''

Ros-Lehtinen, an ardent Castro opponent, declined to comment Tuesday on the unedited tape.

But the Republican lawmaker probably has not heard the last of her statements that on video appear to welcome the communist leader's assassination.

Full video of interview here - http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/front/16278450.htm

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[Missy M]

1. This woman is about to become ....

"the lawmaker, who will become the ranking Republican member of the House International Relations Committee when Congress reconvenes next month". I guess her international relations will consist of, if we don't agree with you, you're dead.

[The Stranger]

2. Can we get the democract in her district elected?

This woman is nuts.

[Mika]

3. Too risky. No one wants to get firebombed of car bombed.

The Burden of a Violent History
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2000-04-20/mullin.html

A short excerpt..

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.

[peacetalksforall]

4. We have our own female terrorist who gets camera time and

applause and who as a Repulican leader is getting a free ticket up the ladder in responsibility. Anyone else would have been 'leerjetted' to Diego Garcia or Poland - Romania - Egypt - Guantanamo for such a threat - in blindfolds.