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United States Also the Victim of Anti-Cuba
Terrorism
LÍDICE VALENZUELA (AIN)
May 16
The bombings and assassinations carried out by arch-terrorist Orlando Bosch and his henchman Luis Posada Carriles are not confined to Cuba. Their lifetime of violent criminal activities has been as active within the United States as outside. What compounds these crimes is that their actions have been orchestrated, financed and aided by the United States itself.
Much new detail has been revealed in recently declassified CIA and FBI documents and through the US and other foreign media. In a 20 minute documentary called “To Save the World,” in which Orlando Bosch confirms the presence of Carriles in the United States, families of victims of terrorism demand justice for these assassins.
The statements by Bosch are contained in material from the information services of Cuban television, presented at the Havana Convention Center as a preamble for President Fidel Castro’s special broadcast address to hundreds of state and government officials and families of Cuban victims of terrorist actions.
The function took place on the eve of what is expected to be a massive protest march scheduled for May 17 to denounce terrorism in all its forms and demand justice for the Cuban and American victims.
In an interview for Miami television’s Channel 41, Bosch confirmed that he had spoken recently with Posada Carriles, a fugitive from Venezuelan justice after being condemned for the bombing of a Cubana airplane in 1976 in which 73 people died.
The documentary also picks up the statement of Dr. Manuel Hevia, director of the Center of Historical Investigations of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, who pointed out that Bosch, in 1968 alone, detonated a total of 69 devices in different US cities. Between 1976 and 1980, one hundred and forty-four bomb attacks were carried out by Bosch, Carriles and his cohorts in South Florida, of them 86 inside the United States, whose people have also been victim of anti-Cuba terrorism, with a tacit approval by different US administrations.
The documentary featured statements by an unrepentant Bosch to different US television channels in which he furiously attempts to defend his murderous actions as acts of war.
In an interview for Miami’s Channel, Bosch argued that the Cuban airplane bombed was coming from Angola. “This is our war and communists have to be fought anywhere they might be. The battle will continue and the attacks will continue, be it against a milk wagon or whatever. When it is war there is the right to destroy ships, airplanes, any thing,” he remarked.
The documentary “To Save to the World” also contained testimonies of families of victims killed in attacks conducted by Posada Carriles, Bosch and men under their control.
Domingo Garcia, brother of the Cuban diplomat Felix Garcia, murdered by the terrorist Pedro Remon on September 11,1980 in a New York street, and Eulalio Negrin, brother of another victim murdered before his 12 year-old son's eyes in the US, demanded justice be carried out against these criminals who flaunt their violence in the face of civilized society, both Cuban and American
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Castro urges 'little fuhrer' to keep his word
By John Rice
Havana - Night after night, Fidel Castro has sat before hundreds of government and Communist Party officials - and millions of other Cubans watching on live television - and proceeded to read them the daily news.
He thunders with indignation and laughs in ridicule as he works through a scattering of newspapers from Europe, Latin America and the United States, occasionally pausing to hunt for a quotation.
The result is remarkably like a televised version of an Internet blog - references to outside news sources tightly wrapped in personal commentary.
Speaking sometimes several nights in a row and for up to four hours at a time, the Cuban president has mounted his most intensive media campaign since the successful battle for the return of shipwreck victim Elian Gonzalez from Miami in 2000.
Increasingly focused on Castro's longtime foe Luis Posada Carriles, the campaign peaks on Tuesday with a massive march to demand that the United States arrest the Cuban exile, who is sought in Venezuela on charges of helping bomb a civilian airliner in 1976, killing 73 people. Cuban officials - and newly released US archives - also link Posada, a former CIA agent, to other violent actions, some of them military, some aimed at civilians.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate in the morning march outside the US Interests Section, the American mission here, and state media reported that Castro would address the nation in another live broadcast on Monday night.
Sometimes angry, sometimes laughing, Castro in his night-time chats has dismissed US government claims that Posada cannot be found and might not be in the United States at all - even as the fugitive's attorney and friends have confirmed his presence.
And he has demanded that US President George Bush - whom he sometimes calls "the little fuhrer" - live up to his promise to fight terrorism wherever it occurs.
Castro repeatedly links the case to hundreds of other attacks meant to undermine his government - notably focusing on a longtime associate of Posada, Orlando Bosch, who was pardoned by former American president George Bush Senior despite US intelligence reports branding him a terrorist.
"What a grotesque type, to pardon him," Castro said on May 12, accusing the United States - "the empire" - of organising or backing virtually all of the attempts to topple his government since he took power in 1959.
Cuba's three state television channels and its radio stations always have focused heavily on Castro's doings.
But Castro became even more visible starting in March, making four jovial Thursday night appearances to announce an up-valued currency and to offer millions of cut-price energy-saving appliances.
Castro's appearances became more frequent in April when Miami news media reported that Posada had slipped into the United States and was seeking political amnesty.
Castro has given 16 "special interventions" on live state TV since April 12 - not counting lengthy televised comments on May Day and during a two-day meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
He's even made sure broadcasters set aside one of the three channels for children's programming so boys and girls don't miss their favourite cartoons.
Underscoring how long Castro has been in power - 46 years - some of the documents he has read out in his appearances are declassified historic documents about attempts to assassinate him.
And his TV chats often suddenly switch focus from one subject another.
Complaints about US failure to return a hijacked Cuban aircraft, for example, detoured briefly into a discussion of the merits of a late 1950s British jetliner that carried Castro on an early trip to North Africa.
Castro spent more than an hour reading from one New York Times story. He spent most of two nights reading and commenting on newly declassified CIA and FBI documents.
The readings from newspapers, as well as documents from the Internet, offer Cubans an unusual, if very personalised window on the world. The government allows relatively few Cubans to have unfettered access to foreign newspapers, magazines, broadcasts or the Internet.
They also point up differences between how differently the American and Cuban governments operate.
Several times, Castro has sneered at the cautious tone of US government spokesmen as they respond to questions about Posada.
In Cuba, he quipped: "I am the spokesperson. They don't pay me for that; it's an additional role." - Sapa-AP
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Late News Update from Radio Havana Cuba - May 16, 2005
Fidel Castro:
Tomorrow We Protest US-Sponsored Terrorism Against Cuba
Havana, May 16 (RHC)--"First of all I'd like to give you a report on the state of my health," announced a clearly healthy and amused Fidel Castro tonight in an address to the nation. "Last night in the latest news we were told that Fidel Castro was hospitalized and there is a great movement of the military in Cuba." Referring to a massive march against terrorism scheduled for Tuesday in Havana, the Cuban leader quipped: "Well, I look forward to the news tomorrow."
Speaking from Havana's International Convention Center, Fidel Castro thereby set the tone for criticism of the kind of press reports emanating from the United States relating to Cuba. The Cuban leader read from an article in which Cuban-American terrorist José Hernández from the Cuban American National Foundation responds to the island's demand for justice against anti-Cuba terrorists in Miami, saying that "Fidel Castro is the inventor of modern terrorism."
"This is the same José Hernández who was arrested on a boat loaded with arms bound for Margarita Island in Venezuela to assassinate me," explained Fidel Castro.
These are the assassins allowed to freely walk the streets of Miami. Along with Luis Posada Carriles, who currently hides in Miami awaiting an asylum hearing, perhaps the worst terrorist in the hemisphere is Orlando Bosch. Yet this man has been frequently interviewed as a respected guest on Miami's Channel 41 where, in a recent interview, he acknowledged the presence of Posada Carriles in Miami - in spite of US government denials. Cuban television tonight rebroadcast a segment from one of Channel 41's interviews with Bosch, relating to the bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner which he and Posada Carriles planned in 1976. Responding to a question on the death of the entire Cuban youth fencing team in the plane, Bosch dismissed them with "Oh, those five little black girls".
Last night, perhaps accidentally but certainly a propos, a film on the Klu Klux Klan1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four little African American girls, was broadcast on Cuban television with a similar comment made by one of the perpetrators.
This brutal racism has tremendously angered Cubans who will be marching past the US Interests Section in Havana on Tuesday to protest the fact that US authorities will not arrest Luis Posada Carriles who recently arrived in Miami illegally and is claiming political asylum based on his past service with the CIA. Even the FBI itself classes Posada Carriles and Bosch as terrorists, yet Bosch was granted residency in the US by George Bush senior after a total of 32 other nations refused to take him in.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque took a moment to lay out the finances provided by the US government in support of attacks against Cuba. From 1996 to 2004 a total of $34 million was dedicated by the US international aid department known as USAID. However, from 2005 to 2006 the amount was raised to $53 million. If the $25 million budgeted by Washington for the use of Radio and TV Marti, which broadcasts anti-Cuba reports that no one hears, and $5 million to finance events against Cuba in other countries is included, said Pérez Roque, the amount spent by the US government to subvert the Cuban Revolution is enormous. Much of this money historically goes straight into the pockets of terrorists to carry out acts of random violence on the Cuban population.
These are what the Cuban president referred to as the "bandits" being interviewed by the US press relating to Cuba's demand that Luis Posada Carriles be arrested and tried for terrorism or deported to Venezuela, which has an extradition request on him filed with the US authorities.
Fidel Castro then read from better written articles in the US press that are finally questioning the US government's involvement in terrorism against the island. He historically linked this terrorism by recounting Deputy CIA Director Vernon Walters' memo to Manuel Contreras, the head of the Chilean secret service - the feared DINA - during the Pinochet dictatorship in which he said that exiled former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier constituted a danger to the USA for organizing opposition to Pinochet from Washington, DC. Thus, said the Cuban president, the CIA conspired in the 1976 assassination of Letelier and his US assistant in a car bombing on a Washington street. Luis Posada Carriles has been placed at a meeting in which this assassination was planned along with the airliner bombing. The Miami-based terrorist organization CORU was involved and, reminded Fidel Castro, Orlando Bosch was the head of CORU at the time. Letelier was killed by Cuban-American terrorists and the two terrorist acts occurred within 15 days of each other.
The Cuban president then referred to a book named "Cuba: The Untold Story" which collects many previously unpublished photos and documents relating to US-sponsored terrorist acts against the island. No US installation, the book begins, however small, has ever been attacked or damaged by Cuba. Yet Cuba has been constantly attacked from US territory with dozens of small planes dropping incendiary devices on the island in the first decade after the defeat of the dictator Batista in 1959. Orlando Bosch was one of those who flew in the planes bombing sugar cane plantations and firing on workers. He was also linked to placing a bomb on a Cuban boat in the Panama Canal, and openly admitted to sending letter bombs to Cuban embassies all over Latin America.
Both Bosch and Posada Carriles were also involved in the deliberate introduction of the Dengue Fever virus to the island in 1981, resulting in the deaths of 81 children and more than 30,000 infections.
Previous statements from Luis Posada Carriles include: "The CIA taught us everything, how to kill, how to make bombs and how to commit acts of sabotage." His co-terrorist Orlando Bosch was granted residency and a pardon in the US, in spite of his terrorist past clearly documented by the Justice Department, which firmly opposed his remaining on US soil. Bosch was described by many as an extortionist, not a patriot. He used terror in the US to maintain support for his terrorist organization CORU. All this with the knowledge and support of the US government.
These are the reasons we march tomorrow, ended the Cuban president.
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MARCH
On the U.S. Interests Section in Havana
BY ALFONSO NACIANCENO AND JOAQUIN RIVERY
—Granma daily staff writers—
"WE demand justice – we will not stand by with our arms crossed in the Posada Carriles case," affirmed President Fidel Castro during his special presentation on Tuesday, May 10 at the International Conference Center in Havana.
"In order to ask for Posada Carriles’ arrest, we will organize a march of the fighting people next Tuesday, May 17, on the United States Interests Section in Cuba," he announced. "It is shameful that that criminal has been in Miami for two months, and the US government is acting like it doesn’t know that fact. It is telling bald-faced lies, and in face of that crime, we are going to mobilize public opinion, to alert it; we will make a protest march against torture, disappearances and murder, so that deeds like the ones we have witnessed in Iraq are not repeated," he stated.
THE FAMOUS BIRTH
"How is it going? What is the situation of that birth? Is the belly of the patient – or patients – getting bigger?" the Cuban president asked, referring to the complicit silence of the US administration with regard to Posada Carriles and his buddies.
He then began reading from an article – which he described as courageous and serious – by Tim Weiner, published in The New York Times.
WHAT DO THE OAS AND CHILEAN PRESIDENTS SAY?
Fidel went over excerpts from the article referring to an FBI anti-terrorist expert who worked on the cases of the Cuban airliner bombing and the murder in Washington of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean foreign minister, and who explained in an interview that the two acts of terrorism were planned during a meeting in June of that year in the Dominican Republic, at which Posada Carriles was present.
"With the confirmation of this front man’s participation in those two events separated by 15 days, it would be good – Fidel commented – to ask José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the OAS, and the Chilean president what their stances are with respect to Posada Carriles, and if they agree that he should be arrested for his crimes against Cuba and other Latin American countries.
"Will they ask the US government to arrest the murderer and send him to Venezuela, from where he escaped, and where he must answer for the murder of Letelier and for having sacrificed 73 people who were traveling on a Cubana airliner?" he asked. "If they won’t try him for what happened to Letelier, let them try him for what happened to the martyrs of Barbados. We would like for the OAS and the Chilean government to say something, because the testimony of an important FBI official who wrote where and how those crimes were initiated cannot be ignored. Letelier and Barbados are inseparable," the Cuban president emphasized.
"These criminals were created and nursed by the United States government; I am sure that that country’s authorities knew about their plans, because Posada Carriles and his henchmen were always accomplices of the Cuban-American National Foundation, of the US authorities, of the shady states of Central America," Fidel affirmed.
He also quoted information on the bandit provided by the Sun-Sentinel, southern Florida newspaper, in which one of its columnists similarly doubts the government’s credibility when it talks of combating terrorism.
Likewise, Fidel called attention to the details regarding the criminal in a report by Miami’s Channel 41. During a news broadcast, it was said that the terrorist is trying to demonstrate that he did not participate in the attack on the Cubana Airlines passenger plane on October 6, 1976. According to unnamed sources, Posada Carriles subjected himself to and passed a lie-detector test at a private agency to prove his innocence, which his attorney is trying to use – together with other arguments – to defend him before the Miami courts.
THE MAFIA REVEALED ITS POWER DURING THE 2000 ELECTIONS
In Fidel’s opinion, the same mafia that handed Bush his victory was the one that planned the attack organized against the Cuban president on Isla Margarita.
"Everything was in Miami – the gun, the house from where they left, and the government," he emphasized, "did not nothing, even though the president at the time was Bill Clinton, and he doesn’t seem like the type of person to plan a murder."
"That mafia was powerful," Fidel stated, "and it revealed that on Election Day in 2000, given that it elected the führer (referring to George W. Bush), while Hitler was there for years before he was elected chancellor. The current one" – he emphasized – "was elected führer, chancellor or president by the Miami gangsters."
"There have been quite a few terrorist plans," Fidel commented, "and that bandit Posada was trained by the CIA and stayed in contact with them the whole time. They acted as though they had broken off (relations)," he noted, "but they had not, and they disguised themselves with the cartel of ‘patriotic groups’ with different names, which is why they must be unmasked every day; every day a new lie is discovered."
The Cuban president asked whether it was possible that Posada had secret advisors when he blew up the airplane, or when the hotels in Havana were bombed.
He did not discount the fact that the monster used a double identity to "work" in Central America after he "broke out" of prison in Venezuela.
"Those who are now plotting to organize a coup d’état in Bolívar’s homeland are the same ones who killed and tortured revolutionaries during another period, and Posada was a CIA man, there in Venezuela’s DISIP," Fidel noted.
He read out long excerpts from an interview with Gaeton Fonzi by Granma International reporter Jean-Guy Allard, which is published in the current edition of this paper.
Fidel made it clear that Posada was not going to
Miami to retire; instead, he has plans in that city.
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