---------- From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:20:45 -0700 To: "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Castro Talks About Libya Raid Thursday May 17 8:33 PM ET Castro Talks About Libya Raid By KHALID Al-DEEB Associated Press Writer TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Cuban President Fidel Castro laid a wreath on Thursday to Libyan victims of the 1986 U.S. bombing, which he called ``a savage aggression.'' On Wednesday, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi escorted Castro to his bomb-damaged residential compound, attacked by U.S. warplanes in April 1986. Gadhafi's adopted daughter, Hana, was among the 37 killed. The raids were in retaliation for the bombing death of two U.S. soldiers at a West Berlin discotheque 10 days earlier. The United States said Libya was behind the explosion. After the compound tour, Castro wrote in a guest book that he had witnessed a result of ``a savage aggression'' and said the ``greatest revolutions in history are the Libyan and Cuban revolutions.'' On Thursday the 74-year-old leader visited a memorial and laid a wreath for the bombing victims. He also laid a wreath for those who fell in Italy's 1922 invasion and subsequent three-year occupation of Libya. Castro then left the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for a short stopover in Lisbon before flying home, ending a six-nation tour aimed at strengthening ties with old and new allies in Asia and the Middle East and seeking cheap sources of energy. He earlier stopped in Algeria, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar and Syria. In talks Thursday with Castro, Gadhafi called for the ``creation of African and Latin American zones to face the fast moving international changes,'' the official JANA news agency said. Libya honored Castro in 1998 with a human rights award for crusading against the United States. Castro last visited Libya in 1977. Libya has supported Cuba throughout a decades-old U.S. trade embargo while the Latin American state stood by Libya during a seven-year U.N. air embargo. The sanctions were imposed to force Libya to hand over two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. The embargo against Cuba is still in force, while the Libyan embargo was suspended after it handed over two Lockerbie suspects in 1999. The United States, however, maintains unilateral sanctions against Libya, claiming it supports terrorism. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
