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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:57:13 -0400
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Subject: Fidel Castro Criticizes War Hysteria
Fidel Castro Criticizes War Hysteria
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
[As usual Fidel's comments are on-target, although this report is the
usual Cawthornian crap with the Latin American and Caribbean
association of journalists meeting being called a "closed-door
congress of left-wing" journalists in Havana. Cawthorne apparently
didn't get past the closed door.... we are told here that "Reuters
gained access to parts of the speech!" Maybe from the Cuban media,
which has been reporting the congresss for the past several days,
proving that Reuter's man in Havana knows someone who can read.]
source - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cuba's Castro criticizes world 'war hysteria'
HAVANA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro said on
Friday that this week's U.S.-led bombing raids on Afghanistan in
response to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington had
whipped the world into "war hysteria."
In a five-hour speech, Castro said the attacks were a way for the
ruling elites of the rich and powerful nations to maintain their
global domination.
"All this war hysteria, all this invention of a state of war has the
clear aim of crushing and neutralizing the movement of the people,"
Castro said in his speech to a closed-door congress of left-wing
Latin American journalists in Havana.
Reuters gained access to parts of the speech.
Communist-run Cuba condemned terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks,
but also strongly opposed the use of military force to flush out
principal suspect, Osama bin Laden, a Saudi-born extremist living in
Afghanistan.
"For us, terrorism is any act in which innocent lives are
sacrificed," Castro said, referring to the reported deaths of some
civilians in Afghanistan.
Terrorism, he added, "is unjust, inhuman and, at the same time, a
stupid way of fighting."
Castro, who led a two-year guerrilla war prior to his toppling of
former dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution, said
it was important to distinguish between legitimate armed struggle and
mindless terrorism.
"Terrorism has to be condemned and fought," he said. "There is a big
difference between the armed struggle and terrorism, a difference
they (the world powers) want to erase from the map, with the aim of
dominating more easily," he said.
20:12 10-12-01
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