Cuba arrests four Miami-based exiles suspected of attack plot

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Source: Reuters

HAVANA, May 7 (Reuters) - Cuba has arrested four Miami-based Cuban exiles suspected of planning attacks on military installations with the goal of promoting anti-government violence on the communist-run island, the interior ministry said.

Labeling the suspects terrorists, it said in a statement late on Tuesday they were linked to Luis Posada Carriles, 86, a Cuban exile and former CIA operative living in Miami who for many years sought to overthrow former President Fidel Castro.

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Cuba has intensified its criticism of the United States for what is considers efforts to destabilize Cuba. It has also railed against the State Department for again naming Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism in an annual report on April 30.

Cuba said it would contact U.S. officials about the investigation and that the four suspects admitted to planning the attacks. Three of them had been traveling about the island since the middle of 2013 to plan its execution, according to the interior ministry statement published in official media.

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Luis Posada Carriles is one of the Cuban exiles that planted a bomb on a Cuban airliner in 1976 - killing all 73 souls on board, mostly youngsters.
Posada referred to the deaths of children as "collateral damage" in the war against Castro.

LUIS POSADA CARRILES
THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD
CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism; Connection to U.S.
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 153
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/

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1. Oh no, not that Miami bunch again.

Seems like they are not going to be happy unless they get the good old days oppressing the uneducated poor peasantry. Of course under this President I totally expected more intrusion into other countries affairs. I just didn't think he was going to go all Nixon on it.

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2. The good old days will be here in the US!

All they need to do is to wait for the Republicans to take both Houses of Congress...and they'll have all the uneducated poor they could ever want to oppress!

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3. AP / ABC - Cuba Arrests 4 Exiles, Alleges Terror Plot

Four Cuban exiles from Miami have been detained on the island and accused of planning "terrorist actions," Havana authorities said Wednesday, the first such arrests in years.

The Interior Ministry said the men were taken into custody on April 26 and alleged that their targets were military. Few details were released, and it was not clear why it took so long to make the arrests public.

"They intended to attack military installations with the goal of perpetrating violent actions," the ministry said in a statement published by Communist Party newspaper Granma. "To such ends, since mid-2013, three of them had made several trips to the island to study and carry out their plan."

The arrests come amid increased exchanges between exiles and their homeland, including visits by several prominent former hardliners who had vowed never to set foot on the island while brothers Fidel and Raul Castro were still in charge.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cuba-arrests-exiles-alleges-terror-plot-23621779

Not showing in Granma English version http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/ yet

Prenza Latina has got it though :

Long-time Terrorists Comando Intend to Attack Cuba Again.

Havana, May 7 (Prensa Latina) The detention of a commando group from the United States that intended to carry out violent acts in Cuba, shows Washington''s double standard policy on its so-called "War on Terror".

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The Cuban Interior Ministry announced here the arrest of four Cuban-born U.S. citizens residing in Miami, who recognized their objective was to attack Cuban military facilities.

According to official sources, the accused have confessed that such plans had been organized by Santiago Álvarez Fernández Magriñá, Osvaldo Mitat y Manuel Alzugaray, all residing in Miami and with a long criminal record of violent actions against Cuba.

The plot leaders are closely linked to the notorious terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, whose extradition from the United States is being requested by Venezuela and Cuba.

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2657411&Itemid=1