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Cuba arrests four Miami-based exiles suspected of attack plot
HAVANA, May 7 (Reuters) - Cuba has arrested four Miami-based Cuban exiles suspected of planning attacks on military installations with the goal of promoting anti-government violence on the communist-run island, the interior ministry said.
Labeling the suspects terrorists, it said in a statement late on Tuesday they were linked to Luis Posada Carriles, 86, a Cuban exile and former CIA operative living in Miami who for many years sought to overthrow former President Fidel Castro.
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Cuba has intensified its criticism of the United States for what is considers efforts to destabilize Cuba. It has also railed against the State Department for again naming Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in an annual report on April 30.
Cuba said it would contact U.S. officials about the investigation and that the four suspects admitted to planning the attacks. Three of them had been traveling about the island since the middle of 2013 to plan its execution, according to the interior ministry statement published in official media.
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Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)They must have decided to start doing it themselves again, this time, since they got exposed for hiring Central American bombers to do their dirty work for them, anyway.
As we remember, Leon Cruz, from El Salvador, if I'm not mistaken, said he was commissioned to take his C-4 materials with his helpers to set up bombs in Cuban hotels, and got caught after murdering an Italian tourist, which had been the intention of the Miami crowd for years.
What a shock to learn the road led them to Santiago Alvarez, once more, the same lunatic who was caught with an arsenal of heavy artillery in his office walls, same guy who used his "shrimp boat" to pick up Luis Posada Carilles and sneak him back into the U.S., same guy who has been bankrolling, in part, Marta Beatriz Roque, etc., etc., etc. Surprise!
I am so glad you caught this and shared it with us. This is NOT a story which also should be covered up. No doubt they will use it to fan the anti-Cuba hate flames in Miami again, perhaps just in time for some election gains in 2014. "It's an ill wind which blows nobody good!" After all, that BTTR shoot-down did force Bill Clinton to sign the Helms-Burton, after all, during a time he had been building a bridge to Cuba with renewed Cuban person-to-person activity, etc.
What a coincidence.
Please let us know if you hear more about this. We need to know. Thank you!
Mika
(17,751 posts)Interestingly, the same trolls claim that by Cuba monitoring foreign agents they are spying on all dissidents - lumping them all into one group with US operatives - while knowing nothing about domestic political activity in Cuba (or posing as know-nothings). Their intent is becoming more obvious with each event they choose to/attempt to linguistically manipulate.
If I hear more, I'll be posting it.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)...is the day I believe even one of them are fair.
But since every tribunal is secret and no one can read the evidence and the reasons the findings were made, it's like a FISA court.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)That seems to be the latest fad, using the word "authoritarian" until they get too dizzy to type.
Soon one of them will remember that it's been a while since they all started clamoring Cuba is making dual- use medical products. Remember that one? It's been years since that one went around, since John Bolton said it at a Heritage Foundation speech the night before Jimmy Carter was scheduled to go to Cuba for a visit, during George W. Bush's pResidency.
So predictable. So stupid.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Especially if they had even passing ties with Posada (ie, were in the same room with him).
Mika
(17,751 posts)I'm sure you've done your research on the terror campaign upon Cuba undertaken by the "exiles" in Miami (with a nod and some help from the US gov't, the CIA and private terrorist sources).
My point is that real Cuban domestic "dissidents" and Cuban foreign agents acting as "dissidents" ARE NOT one and the same.
Many trolls here consistently & falsely lump them into one category.
The genuine domestic political activists DO NOT want "help" nor aid nor "assistance" from US/Miami based sources because it discredits their activity - in lumping them together this discrediting is de rigueur here on DU, by the anti Cuba-ist trolls.
I fully support wide ranging political activity in Cuba, but, I don't support foreign (US/Miami exile) intervention in "dissident" activity.
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)back in control of things in Cuba. They also hate the dissidents who believe the U.S. must drop the embargo.
Who wouldn't know that, you'd think! Sad.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Dishonestly placing real domestic political activity into the same category as US funded "dissidents" is very common here.
I know that you know this, just pointing it out to others.