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...Bush administration official has said that the Cuban regime possesses “at least a limited offensive biological warfare capability...
...Irving Louis Horowitz—renowned sociologist, co-editor of the book Cuban Communism and a veritable expert on Cuban affairs—wrote in the Spring 2002 issue of the National Interest: “Training and arming Palestinians from the PLO forces is ongoing” in Cuba...
...State Department report documented that during the previous year, “The Cuban Government continued to allow at least 20 Basque ETA members to reside in Cuba as privileged guests and provided some degree of safe haven and support to members of the Colombian FARC and ELN groups...
...same report also noted: “In August [2001], a Cuban spokesman revealed that Sinn Fein’s official representative for Cuba and Latin America, Niall Connolly, who was one of three Irish Republican Army members arrested in Colombia on suspicion of providing explosives training to the FARC, had been based in Cuba for five years.” Connolly had been on the payroll of the island’s Communist party...
...Fred Barnes pointed out in the Weekly Standard last summer, the only times Castro’s made real concessions on emigration and liberalization in the past 44 years have been when a mixture of domestic economic turmoil and American pressure forced him to. The 1965 arrangement for Cuban Americans to rescue their family members on a designated beach, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, the (admittedly minimal) free-market reforms of the 1990’s—the catalyst for all these actions was the U.S., not the regime in Havana. Historically, America has not gotten concessions from Castro...