Saturday, June 10, 2006 · Last updated 7:51 p.m. PT
Castro: al-Zarqawi killing a 'barbarity'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HAVANA -- President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a "barbarity," saying he should have been put on trial.
The United States acted as "judge and jury" against the leader of the
al-Qaida in Iraq, Castro said late Friday.
"They bragged, they were practically drunk with happiness."
"The accused cannot just be eliminated," he told a literacy conference.
"This barbarity cannot be done."
The U.S. military has said al-Zarqawi initially survived the dropping of
two 500-pound bombs on his hide-out Wednesday, but died a short time later.
Castro said if Cuba used the same logic, it could bomb the United States
to kill its No. 1 enemy, Luis Posada Carriles, who is being held in El
Paso, Texas on immigration charges.
The communist government accuses the Cuban-born Posada of masterminding
numerous violent attacks against the island, including the bombing of a
Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in 1976. Posada denies involvement
in the bombing of the plane.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Cuba_Al_Zarqawi.html
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