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CUBAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CRITICIZE IMPRISONMENT OF FIVE CUBANS IN U.S. ON CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE.

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Over the past year, five Cubans and one US senior intelligence analyst, Ana Belen Montes, have received stiff US prison sentences for passing along information to the Cuban Government about armed plots against the island nation originating in the US (see NotiCen, 2001-06-21). Cuban government officials say that the five imprisoned Cubans are heroes and that their imprisonment represents no more than the hypocrisy of US President George W. Bush's war on terror.

Cuban Officials Accuse Exiles of Sponsoring Terror

Cuban officials suggest that, while President Bush speaks with indignation about rooting out terrorism and punishing countries that harbor terrorists, US policy has been quite soft on anti-Castro groups that have committed illegal acts of armed aggression against the island nation. According to Cuban officials like National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon, the five Cubans who were imprisoned for spying on anti-Castro organizations are heroes who were attempting to defend the country from US-based terrorism.

Among the Cuban exiles living in the US whom Alarcon considers to be terrorists is Orlando Bosch (see NotiCen, 2002-07-18). Bosch is believed to be responsible for the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that killed 73 people. While Bosch has denied involvement in the bombing, he reportedly told investigators of the US House of Representatives Select Committee on...

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