Posted 09/01/2011 06:58 PM ET
Terrorism: For years, Cuba's apologists have debunked U.S. warnings of
Havana's sponsorship of terror. It withers in the face of news that Cuba
has just set up a Hezbollah base.
According to a report in Italy's respected Corriere della Sera
Wednesday, three Hezbollah terrorists operating out of Mexico have left
that country to establish a permanent "bridgehead" to the communist
island, calling their clandestine operation "The Caribbean Dossier."
Twenty-three other terrorists from the Iran-linked terror group are
expected to join the operation, which has a startup budget of more than
$500,000. Corriere reported that the mission in Cuba is to provide
logistical support for upcoming terrorist attacks planned in the hemisphere.
This is what "state sponsor of terrorism" means, which is how the U.S.
accurately classified this odious regime since 1982, even as Cuba's
leftist apologists have dismissed it, claiming Cuba is no threat.
Safely ensconced with the Castro brothers' hospitality, Hezbollah's
operatives can carry out missions such as acquiring passports,
recruiting informants and forging documents.
More disturbingly, they have been tasked to network with Hezbollah's
other terrorist cells in Venezuela, Paraguay and Mexico, all in need of
logistical support for attacks.
The Italian newspaper reported that Hezbollah might be planning a major
attack against Israeli targets in the Western Hemisphere in retaliation
for Israel's killing of Hezbollah's chief assassin, Imad Mughniyeh, in
Damascus in 2008. Mughniyeh was a Hezbollah terrorist leader implicated
in the two huge attacks in Buenos Aires in the 1990s on Jewish targets —
strikes that remain unpunished.
But the targets might not all be Latin American. With Hezbollah ordered
to meet with, presumably in Havana, Mexico's cartel traffickers that
control illegal alien routes into the U.S., it's likely terrorist
attacks are in the works for America, too.
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"Once you create the networks, the guerrillas will be held ready for
their missions," Corriere reported of Hezbollah's orders.
That's classic terrorist networking coming into a place before a scourge
emerges.
Make no mistake, it's the Castro dictatorship that's enabling Hezbollah.
More to the point, it corresponds with the fact that the Castro brothers
have always opened the doors wide to terrorist operatives — from
Colombia's FARC, M-19 and ELN terrorists, to Chile's leftist terrorists
of the Allende era, Nicaragua's Sandinistas and Spain's ETA Basque
operations.
The Castro brothers have long been champions of Hezbollah, and there are
no more "professionally trained" terrorists capable of carrying out
large attacks than Hezbollah operatives.
Against all this, the Cuban regime screams whenever the State Department
awards it the designation of state sponsor of terror. Just last week,
Cubadebate.com, a Cuban state-controlled media organ, said the U.S. used
"old, unprovable arguments" in its annual Country Reports on Terrorism
2010 that gave Cuba the terror title it deserves.
What's outrageous is that the left has consistently echoed this line.
Just last year, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote:
"Cuba poses no terror threat. Cuba is not a failed state with
territories out of governmental control. The idea that a Cuban citizen
could get explosive artifacts or have terror accessories of any kind in
the island is simply ridiculous."
Filmmaker Michael Moore, academic Noam Chomsky, Code Pink founder Medea
Benjamin and quite a few elected officials have made similar statements.
How are they going to explain away a Hezbollah base in Havana now?
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/583625/201109011858/Cubas-Terror-Smoking-Gun.htm
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