To: James Strauss who wrote (9779 ) 9/15/2001 1:38:41 AM From: Jibacoa Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13094 <<September 11th 2001 was a wake up call for the civilized world... The terrorist cancer will be removed...>> <<I would like to hear on the morning news that four bombs have been dropped. One on Afghanistan,one on Libya, one on Iran and one on Iraq. Let the world condemn us. I don't particularly care. I just want to be "safe" from animals like those >> Jim: I have heard some people recently saying:"Now that the cold war is over Fidel Castro is no longer a threat to the United States." All the increased security measures will not eliminate the terrorist risk unless they can eliminate the SOURCE. You have to take action against those that harbor, help, promote and foment terrorism.You have to go to the ROOT of the problem. As they say in Spanish:"Hay que arrancar el arbol de raiz". I trust that they don't forget the risk we have just 60 miles from Florida's coast: During a visit to Teheran, Iran on May 9 of this year, just four months and two days before the most brutal terrorist attack in America's history, Fidel Castro told Iranian students: "Today, there is a king in the world a thousand times stronger than the shah you overthrew, and that is the imperialist king living next to my homeland. However, this imperialist king will finally fall, just as your king was overthrown." This is what one month earlier, the U. S. State Department said about Cuba and Iran: Patterns of Global Terrorism -2000 Released by the Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism of the United States Department of State April 2001 Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan continue to be the seven governments that the US Secretary of State has designated as state sponsors of international terrorism. Iran remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism in 2000. It provided increasing support to numerous terrorist groups, including the Lebanese Hizballah, HAMAS, and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which seek to undermine the Middle East peace negotiations through the use of terrorism. Cuba Cuba continued to provide safe haven to several terrorists and US fugitives in 2000. A number of Basque ETA terrorists who gained sanctuary in Cuba some years ago continued to live on the island, as did several US terrorist fugitives. Havana also maintained ties to other state sponsors of terrorism and Latin American insurgents. Colombia's two largest terrorist organizations, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the National Liberation Army, both maintained a permanent presence on the island. From Insight Magazine (Washington Times) Fidel Castro's Deadly Secret - Five BioChem Warfare Labs Vol 14, No 26 July 20, 1998 www.insightmag.com By Martin Arostegui Throughout the island, according to documents smuggled out of Cuba and made available to Insight by Alvaro Prendes, a former Cuban air force colonel who now is the Miami-based spokesman for the Union of Liberated Soldiers and Officers, (a clandestine pro-democracy movement within Cuba's security services), show continuing Cuban support for international terrorism and drug trafficking. They tell Insight that, according to the CIA, Russian specialists still operate the electronic listening station at Lourdes on the northeast tip of the island which taps into U.S. communications. During the Persian Gulf War, this station forwarded strategic information to Iraq. Castro initiated his chemical-weapons program in 1981 when Soviet technicians built a plant to produce tricothecen, the main component of "yellow rain," in an underground tunnel complex at Quimonor in Matanzas province. The program was expanded some years later with the construction of another chemical-weapons facility in Pinar del Rio, where Cuban and Soviet technicians began experimenting with mixtures of germs and toxins to produce anthrax, the documents assert. Castro's Cuba is one of the few countries in the world, who refuses to condemn international terrorism. Here is an excerpt from: THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 - Europe Overview combating terrorism, including arresting numerous ETA members and raiding logistics and support cells. France regularly delivered detained ETA terrorists, including several senior leaders, into Spanish custody. Spain also secured a pledge from Mexico to deny safe haven to ETA members. Spain welcomed the condemnation of ETA in November by all Ibero-American presidents -- EXCEPT CUBAS' CASTRO. He recently had some terrorist from IRA that he later sent to Colombia to give some extra training to the FARC on explosives. How effective do you think the enhanced security measures at airports are going to be in preventing a suicidal pilot starting his flight 60 miles from Florida's coasts ? Do you think our jets will be able to intercept it on time ?