Cuba honours 9/11 victims

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CUBA'S foreign minister has honoured the victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, but blasted Washington's "hypocrisy" in setting standards on who is a terrorist. In a statement made public overnight, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque expressed opposition to "all kinds of terrorism" as he remembered "the terrible death of thousands of innocent people in the attack on the Twin Towers, for which we offer a tribute in their memory."

September 11 "is a day in which Cuba ratifies its opposition to all forms of terrorism," Perez Roque said. He also paid tribute to the victims of the bloody September 11, 1973 military coup in Chile, engineered with help from the US Central Intelligence Agency. And he remembered Felix Garcia, a Cuban diplomat with Havana's UN mission murdered in New York on September 11, 1981, allegedly by a hit squad of anti-communist Cuban exiles.


Perez Roque then blasted "Washington's hypocrisy" for refusing to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, a hardline Castro opponent wanted by Venezuela in connection with the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger airliner in which 73 died. Posada Carriles, 77, a former CIA agent, is currently being held on immigration charges in the United States. Perez Roque also excoriated Washington's "illegal war against the people of Iraq," which he said "desecrates the memory of the victims of September 11, 2001."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16565330%255E1702,00.html

[CottonBear]

1. Thank you Cuba. Sept.11. A date which we will not forget. n/t

[Mika]

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