From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CubaNews] CubaNews summary Sept. 13, 2001 CubaNews summary - Sept. 13, 2001 ===================================== Here are some of the sources of information on how Cuba has responded to the crisis and how the crisis is affecting Cuba as well. Cuba's response has been strong, clear and unambiguous. NOTE: At times like these, Cuban websites sometimes don't open up. In time, they do however. Here are a few. FRONT PAGE OF GRANMA WEBSITE http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html "Together with the U.S. people we feel pain and sadness," said Cuba's President Fidel Castro. TEXT: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/septiem2/37dolor-i.html Statement from Government of the Republic of Cuba http://www.granma.cu/ingles/septiem2/37decl-i.html Cuba rejects terrorism and offers condolences as well as practical assistance to the U.S. people. http://www.granma.cu/ingles/septiem2/37terro-i.html REUTERS LIE: CUBA IGNORES WTC TRAGEDY In a vicious and unsigned article, Reuters claims that the Cuban media are not covering the story. This is a grotesque fabrication. Anyone with a computer can look at Cuban TV via the internet from the Granma website. It was the main story on Cuban TV last night. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/search/sfl-912cuba.story?co ll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dcaribbean RHC FOCUSES FULLY ON WTC CRISIS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/5671 US READIES POSSIBLE RETALIATORY STRIKE http://www.washingtonpost.com/ COLUMNISTS READY THE PUBLIC FOR WAR America's columnists, some of them at least, are ready to go to war. From the safety of their word processors, they are urging the Bush administration to bomb someone -- anyone -- who can be tied to Tuesday's devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Tapping into the nation's revulsion, some armchair warriors have opened rhetorical fire. The New York Post's Steve Dunleavy: "The response to this unimaginable 21st-century Pearl Harbor should be as simple as it is swift -- kill the bastards. . . . A gunshot between the eyes, blow them to smithereens, poison them if you have to. . . . As for cities or countries that host these worms, bomb them into basketball courts. http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/15m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art icles/A20908-2001Sep12.html MIAMI HERALD POINTS TO POSSIBLE SUSPECTS "Islamic-sounding" names are targetted. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/010806.htm MUSLIMS IN U.S. UNDER ATTACK After the Oklahoma City bombing, followers of the Islamic faith were quickly targetted by the media seeking someone to blame for the attack. Of course it was later revealed that the perpetrators were not Muslims at all, but right-wingers from the heartland of the U.S. such as Timothy McVeigh. Though we have no idea who is responsible for the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, a familiar pattern of fingerpointing has begun. Here are a few reports from the Miami Herald: http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/112162.htm FOR ARAB-AMERICANS, A FAMILIAR BACKLASH http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20953-2001Sep12?language=printer U.S. MUSLIMS DENOUNCE ATTACKS, OFFER AID Council on American-Islamic Relations website: http://www.cair-net.org/ FBI LAUNCHES MASSIVE INVESTIGATION from the Miami Herald: Independent security experts said some of the first leads looked promising: Two bags with the Koran, a video with flying instructions and a plane fuel consumption table were found at Boston's airport. Airline passenger lists with the names of suspected Islamic extremists living in the United States led to search warrants for homes, hotels and cars in Florida and Massachusetts. The Army's National Security Agency began playing back tapes of pre- and post-attack phone calls from suspects in the United States to possible terrorist sponsors in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere. PROBE IDENTIFIES 50 IN TERRORISM PLOT from the Sun-Sentinel: Ten suspects remain at large and FBI agents are out looking for remaining suspects widely. Consider this: In Boston, federal agents, bomb specialists, firefighters and police officers staged a dramatic midday raid on the Westin Copley Place hotel. Wearing black hoods and heavy bulletproof vests, agents carried battering rams, AR-15 firearms and fiber-optic equipment, which can check under doors. They took into custody three people, who were later released. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sns%2Dworldtr ade MIAMI STUDENTS LAUNCH PEACE VIGIL The bombing that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and a portion of the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., brought together people who under normal circumstances would never have met, senior Michael Kilpatrick said. "This has renewed my faith in the kindness of people,'' Kilpatrick said. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/100798.htm ======================================== JEB BUSH WORRIES ABOUT TOURISM While Disney World reopened in Florida, the state's governor, Jeb Bush, worried about the impact of 9-11 on the state's tourism business: In Tallahassee, the governor attended Mass early Wednesday, then joined legislative leaders in donating blood at a Red Cross bus parked outside the Capitol. But the talk in the state Capitol focused not on blood banks or security, but on the impact this week's attacks might have on an already financially strapped state government. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/florida/digdocs/030965.htm LATIN GRAMMYS, FILMS, TO BE RE-SCHEDULED HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Officials of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the group that oversees the Latin Grammys, are scheduled to convene in Santa Monica this morning to decide how to distribute its trophies amid reports that the awards show will not be rescheduled. The awards show was originally scheduled for Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena but was moved three weeks ago over fear that anti-Castro protesters would disrupt the event. "People are going to get their awards, but we have not determined how,'' said Ron Roecker, another Grammy spokesman. Also, The Rats, an original Fox movie about 78 million killer rodents taking over New York City, will be bumped at 8 p.m. Monday and replaced by Eddie Murphy's The Nutty Professor. http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/063220.htm PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON AND ASK ANYONE INTERESTED TO SUBSCRIBE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ 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] __________________________________________________
