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| El Jefe once saved Reagan...also a Truther |
| 2007-09-12 |
| Appears there's lots of Loose Change jangling around in Fidel's head? (AP) Fidel Castro says that Cuba once saved the life of U.S. President Ronald Reagan by giving American officials information about an assassination plot. The essay published Wednesday in the Communist Party daily Granma appeared to be Castro's first public description of the matter. It seemed to be aimed at showing that Cuba had cooperated with the United States in the past. So secret, nobody knows about it... Castro wrote that a Cuban security official stationed at the United Nations told U.S. mission security chief Robert C. Muller about an extreme right-wing group that was planning to assassinate Reagan during a planned trip to North Carolina in 1984. "The information was complete: the names of those implicated in the plan; day, time and hour where the assassination could occur; the type of weapon the terrorists had and where they kept their arms; and along with all that, the meeting place of those elements planning the action as well as a brief summary of what had occurred in said meeting," Castro wrote. The Colenel, in the library, with the candlestick... Castro wrote that Cuban authorities learned later that the FBI had arrested several people in North Carolina and he said that several days after that, Muller expressed America's thanks to the Cuban official over lunch in a U.N. dining room. Yeah, "Assassination Plot Against Reagan Foiled With Cuban Help". That would never make the papers... The Cuban leader also wrote that when Reagan survived an assassination attempt in 1981, Havana formally condemned the act during a meeting with the head of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba, Wayne Smith. Were they sorry Jodie's boyfriend missed? The press office of the U.S. State Department's Western Hemisphere Affairs in Washington did not immediately respond to a telephone call requesting comment. Ummmmmmmm...ummmmmmmmm...we'll get back to you. Smith confirmed the 1981 meeting in Havana, though he said he had not heard about the 1984 plot. "But just because I never heard about it doesn't mean it didn't happen," said Smith, who left Havana in 1982 and is now at the Center for International Policy think tank in Washington. "It isn't the kind of thing that the U.S. would want widely known." ...like those fake moon landings. Castro also accused the U.S. government of misleading the public about the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington six years ago. "It is now known there was deliberate disinformation" about the attacks, the Cuban leader wrote. "We were tricked like everybody else on the planet." Kinda like when I told everybody I wasn't a commie way back when... More: In an essay read by a Cuban television presenter on Tuesday night, Castro said the Pentagon was hit by a rocket, not a plane, because no traces were found of its passengers. Whaddya think, Fidel? Aliens? Or will that be the shocking conclusion to "Lost"? "Studying the impact of planes, similar to those that hit the Twin Towers, that had accidentally fallen on densely populated cities, one concludes that it was not a plane that crashed into the Pentagon," Castro said. "Only a projectile could have caused the geometrically round hole that allegedly was made by the plane," he said. That's true. After years of extensive study of Road Runner cartoons, I see that whenever Wyle E. Coyote runs through a wall, he leaves a perfect silhouette of...Wyle E. Coyote! Every time! Castro said the truth behind the September 11 attacks with hijacked planes that killed nearly 3,000 people will probably never be known. Castro's 4,256-word essay made no mention of Osama bin Laden and his militant Islamist al Qaeda network behind the attacks on New York's World Trade Center and Washington. Oh. Yeah. That guy... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #3 HMMMMMM, HMMMMMMM, North Carolina...Perhaps Russia's dying birth rates, North Korea's Kimmie's probs wid the Military and Wannabes, and 000's of rioting former Chicom soldiers, etc. has jolted something in Castro??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-09-12 21:22 |
| #2 ...Ya know, if this HAD happened, in 1984 the press was as rabidly against Regan as they are against Bush. The leak would have been so fast that it would have made Noah's flood look like a spring shower, and the media would have been DEMANDING that Reagan make nice to Cuba immediately. Somewhere, RR is reading this and laughing his head off. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-09-12 17:28 |
| #1 Wow! A whole 4,256 words from a brain dead zombie. Is he still eating human flesh? |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2007-09-12 16:30 |