Word: cuba
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Five-year-old Cuba Birnbaum agreed...
...ocean away, other intelligence officials were playing the tape to some of the several hundred lesser-ranking al-Qaeda detainees held in pens at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And the reaction they got was even scarier: a senior U.S. official told TIME that detainees said some passages could be a call to action. That interpretation, along with reports from informants and intercepted communications flooding CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., sent waves of anxiety through the intelligence community...
Despite the red tape involved in traveling to Cuba, which still has no formal diplomatic ties with the U.S., students in the class and its professor are optimistic about their chances of making the trip...
...route to Cuba is not straightforward. Only limited flights are available for the journey from the U.S. to the communist country. The class has not yet determined whether it will board a charter plane in Miami or fly to Cuba from Canada...
...Cuba is one of the safest countries for students in the world,” Mazzotti said...