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| Raul Castro: Cocaine Connection? |
| 2006-08-14 |
| Federal prosecutors in Miami were prepared to indict Raul Castro as the head of a major cocaine smuggling conspiracy in 1993, but the Clinton Administration Justice Department overruled them, current and former Justice Department officials tell ABC News. The officials say Castro, as Cuban Defense Minister, permitted Colombian drug lords to pay for the use of Cuban waters and airstrips as staging grounds for smuggling runs into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. "It was a major investigation involving numerous witnesses that was killed at the highest levels in Washington," said a former Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the case. . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Isn't el dealer maximo one of the nicknames of fidel? I think the castro bros' links with cocaine narcotraffic is well known, for those who don't revere this pos. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-14 16:13 |
| #2 Thanks Bubba!! You made our job so much more, er, challenging. On all fronts. From Afghanistan to Zimbobwe. It all boils down to Liberal = Hoser. If there is a pile of geopolitical cow shit anywhere in the world within the last 2 decades, a democrat will have stepped in it and tracked it all over the house. |
| Posted by: Evil Elvis 2006-08-14 13:47 |
| #1 I recall reading about Raul's cocaine connection several years back. Are we outta brothers yet? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-08-14 13:16 |