AFP. 10 October 2001. Castro says US didn't show proof of attack authorship. BUENOS AIRES -- Cuban President Fidel Castro said the United States has shown no proof of who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks against New York and Washington. In comments published here Wednesday, Castro told Argentine journalists visiting Havana he "was not convinced" Saudi-born terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden was behind the strikes that left 5,500 dead or missing. "It appears that the United States has not found concrete proof of who the authors of the attack were," said Castro. "Why can't they present the evidence requested?" He accused the United States of being "organized exporters of crime." The communist leader charged that the United States was behind "the first act of terrorism" by giving orders to kill Chile's late Socialist president Salvador Allende, as well as being behind coups in Chile and Argentina, and being "allies of military dictators ... and other repressive regimes in the Americas and around the world." Castro also argued Cuba was itself a victim of terrorist attacks that had not been adequately explained such as the mid-air explosion of a plane off Barbados in the 1970s, when some 70 people were killed aboard the flight from Guyana to Cuba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
