Cuban Exiles Wage War of Terror

[Judi Lynn]

Cuban Exiles Wage War of Terror

By Frank Joyce, AlterNet. Posted August 16, 2006.

It wasn't Libya, Afghanistan, or any other Arab-based group that first blew up a commercial airplane. Al Qaida had nothing to do with it. That first attack, on Oct. 6, 1976, came when Cuban-American terrorists and mercenaries blew up a Cuban civilian airliner. All 73 on board went down to a fiery and gruesome death, including the teenage members of the Cuban fencing team returning from a competition in Venezuela.

This tacitly U.S.-supported terrorist crime never appears on the "history" list of incidents involving civilian airliners, at least not in the U.S. media. Why? Cognitive dissonance is one explanation. The syllogism goes like this: The United States is a good country. Terrorism is bad. The United States funds and protects terrorists. Uh-oh -- we certainly can't talk about that.

In Barbados, where the bomb was placed on the Cuban airliner, the mercenaries were tried and convicted for the crime and served time. But the planners and instigators of the plot, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, got away clean. Posada is today being protected by the U.S. government from an extradition demand by Venezuela, where the crime was planned. (In a delicious irony, the U.S. government's position is that he can't be extradited to Venezuela because he would be tortured there.) Over the objections of his own justice department, George H. W. Bush in effect pardoned Orlando Bosch. He is today a free man living in Miami where he gives gloating TV interviews about his role in blowing up the plane.

The Cuban airline bombing was anything but an isolated incident. On Sept. 4, 1997, as on other occasions, U.S.-sponsored terrorists set off bombs in Havana hotels and restaurants. This time, one killed a tourist from Italy, Fabio de Celmo. Over the years death and injury to civilians has come from thousands of other attacks carried out in Cuba and elsewhere by land, air and sea against villagers, fisherman, children, tourists and diplomats by terrorists based in Florida.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/40370/

[eridani]

1. K & R n/t

[Greyhound]

2. Here's another...

:kick:
Welcome to amerika, the world's leading exporter of terrorism for over 50 years. We're still number 1! :woohoo:

[Maribelle]

3. “Cuban Exiles” is an illusionary brand name - -

There is not a government of Cuba in exile.

“Cuban Runaways” would be politely correct. “Batista Wannabes” would be more accurate.

For decades these Miami thugs have salivated over the conviction that one day they would take over Cuba and drive the current Cubans back to the hills to live in the abject poverty the suffered under Batista.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Because the US refused to recognize the revolution and Castro

(especially the Mafia, the CIA-State Dept, and other businessmen), the USSR stepped in. There were mutual benefits - money and support for Cuba and a foothold for the USSR.

In a sense, some runaways were considered exiles from Communism which was a campaign that worked for a number of decades. Of course, history got twisted and you would have thought the USSR came first before the U.S. refused diplomatic relations.

When the USSR pulled their support and when the Berlin Wall fell and Cuban-Americans continued to hold this country hostage for their poltical and hate Castro reasons - and the leaders of our Congress allowed Cuban-Americans to continue to hold us hostage because of money to their pocets -

this country LOST (and Democrats helped in the stupidity).

There was no reason to continue the embargos and the silly rules, rhetoric, and the money schemes should have been closed down after the Berlin wall fell, if not before.

The policies of the U.S. against Cuba are a disaster. An absolute ridiculous disaster. A joke beyond appreciating.

[Vidar]

5. Nicely put.

[Say_What]

9. "Batista wannabes" aka GUSANOS

Welcome to DU, Maribelle! :hi:

[Lowell]

6. These people expect to return

and take over their previously held properties in Cuba after the fall of Fidel. What a crock of crap. They cut and ran from their own country. They are no longer exiles, they are whiners. Why do we promote terrorism against our neighbors to the south?

[Demeter]

7. Campaign Donations: It's the Benjamins. It's ALWAYS the Benjamins

There's a certain type of personality that recognizes no other god. They like to think they can buy each other. And they like to think they can cheat and get away with it.

[peacetalksforall]

8. They absolutely, positively believe that they will regain their lands and

for some - they hope to regain land they never had.

I fear blood will flow over some of these near five decades of delusion. When a person believes something for nearly five decades and the belief is reinforced by everyone you are in contact with - and if a person fantasizes for nearly five decades - how do you think rationally? What is the law?

Are their fantasies based on law?

Anyway, back to terrorism - yes, this country caters to terrorists and they finanace them through the CIA and even when not paid, they have looked the other way.

[Say_What]

10. Related: Panama Refuses to Shelter Terrorist

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Panama, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) Panamanian Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis Navarro denied Wednesday that his government plans to receive international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, detained in the US since May 2005.

The also first vice president rejected some reports of presumed pressure from the White House on Panama to receive the criminal.

What I can say categorically, on behalf of the Government, is there is no possibility that Panama is accepting Posada Carriles, stated Lewis Navarro.

Posada Carriles was arrested in Panama along with three accomplices when he was planning to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro at the 2000 Ibero-American Summit in that country.


http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B40592DB0-1F57-4241-A03A-709E44A9FC67%7D&language=EN

[Judi Lynn]

11. Panama should be forced to accept this bomber/mass murderer.

It was their President (and _Bush friend) who is currently living in Miami among her Cuban right-wing friends, who released all four murderers/terrorists from prison.

Panama should have to protect them, as they will certainly be back in their lives of vicious crime, terrorizing the citizens of Cuba again and again and again until they die. They killed a guy the last time they hired a Central American, Leon Cruz to set bombs in a hotel, and they will surely be right back in the terrorism business A.S.A.P. LET PANAMA BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM.

Or better yet, extradite Mireya Moscoso from Florida back to Panama and let her act as their sponsor.







Miami's Mayor Diaz welcomes Mireya Mosoco to town.