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November 21, 2001
THE
ANTHRAX CONNECTION – THE POISONED LAMB
Part
I
After the September 11th attack, every day new cases
appear of anthrax contamination caused by unknown terrorists whose aim
is to disrupt the institutional and financial infrastructure of our
country with a threat that physically and/or psychologically reaches
every person in the nation.
In view of this, two things are mandatory:
1) be alert to prevent contamination, and afford immediate
medical treatment to anyone actually or probably infected, and, 2)
make every effort to determine the source where the anthrax and other
chemical or biological weapons are produced and eliminate those
sources.
For some time, Iraq has been known to produce chemical and
biological weapons and the United Nations has made efforts to inspect
the installations suspected of producing same.
However, little if any attention has been given to another
sworn enemy of this country: Fidel Castro, even though his regime is
among those listed by the Department of State as promoting terrorism.
Indeed,
for years the Cuban dictator has been building an array of chemical
plants, originally with the aid of the now defunct Soviet Union.
In the sequence of this writing we shall provide a detailed
description of where those plants are located in Cuba.
As we said in the beginning, to this date the source of the
anthrax used in the recent cases of infection in the U.S. has not been
determined; but we must place ourselves in a state of alert as to the
location of the terrorists producing these or other chemical and
biological weapons. In
this respect, we must take into account a number of facts, events and
circumstances which point to Fidel Castro. In a variety of legal
scenarios, proven inclination and opportunity are sufficient to imply
guilt, even if the smoking gun be missing.
Let us examine some relevant case histories.
The practice of hijacking airplanes began in the sixties, when
planes were hijacked in the US by bank robbers and other fugitives and
forced to fly to Cuba, where the fugitives remain to this day under
Castro’s protection. From
that beginning, the practice extended worldwide until the tragic
events of September 11th.
During the missile crisis of October, 1962, Castro urged Nikita
Khrushchev to fire a missile with a nuclear warhead against the U.S.
Fortunately, Khrushchev did not follow the suggestion.
Castro has hosted, trained and armed terrorist groups targeting
all of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, as well as the Basque Etarras
in Spain. A detailed
report on this activity will appear in the continuation of this
writing.
The present Cuban regime has built in Cuba state-of-the-art
facilities to produce biochemical weapons such as anthrax, and has
experimented with them in Africa, specifically in Angola, where
Castro’s army intervened in the civil war to bolster the communist
Luanda regime.
As recently as May, 2001, at a gathering in Iran at the
University of Teheran, Castro told students: “Together, Iran and
Cuba will bring the U.S. to its knees”.
Right here in the U.S., the Castro action is not speculative,
but very real. This year,
a federal jury found five Cuban residents of Florida guilty of spying
for the Cuban government and seeking information on American military
bases. More recently, two
weeks after the September 11th attack, a highly placed
official in the Pentagon, Ana Belen Montes, was arrested by the F.B.I.
for transmitting very sensitive military and strategic information to
the Castro regime.
Lately, on several occasions, when talking about possible
conflicts between the Cuban regime and the U.S., Castro has cautioned
the latter to beware of “the poisoned lamb”.
What he has meant by this enigmatic phrase is not clear, but
placed in the context of the recent terrorist attacks, and
particularly of the spread of the anthrax bacteria, perhaps it begins
to make sense. When we
reflect that it is not logical or practical to bring anthrax into this
country from a far away source such as Iran, when it can be introduced
by anyone of the many travelers that return to the U.S. from Cuba,
either directly or through third countries, and who go through customs
here with remarkable ease.
TO
BE CONTINUED – PART II -
The factories of terror
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