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Re: Cuba is a terrorist state (was Re: Any truth in this one - Cuba as a terrostist state.
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Sun, 14 Oct 2001 08:01:30 GMT
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Here is the US government reasoning for who is on the list and who is off.
Note that this material well predates 911.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/index.cfm?docid=2441

which is a section of

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/

I found the list of FTOs interesting.

http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2000/index.cfm?docid=2450

especially how intertwined they all seem to be. The site alleges that, for
example, the IRA (the 'Provos') received funding from Libya and training
from the PLO but doesn't specify how long ago that was. If true, that again
gets to my question... how long is long enough to let slide?



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  Re: Cuba is a terrorist state (was Re: Any truth in this one - Cuba as a terrostist state.
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GL6rMI.4nw@lugnet.com... (...) Or perhaps you could also ask the question how many sympathisers to thier cause do you need in the US government? Or how many votes might be lost if (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Cuba is a terrorist state (was Re: Any truth in this one - Cuba as a terrostist state.
 
(...) Yep. You last comment is old news in the UK. A few years ago we literally caught a boat load or arms (inc SAMs) from Libya. I think since then, Libya told the UK just what it had supplied to help counter the IRA. See: (URL) the help the IRA (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Cuba is a terrorist state (was Re: Any truth in this one - Cuba as a terrostist state.
 
(...) I'm comfortable with the designation of Cuba as a terrorist state, (1). That perception of mine is based mostly on my perception of their actions in the 1980s in Africa. Recently they seem to have calmed down whether because they wanted to or (...) (23 years ago, 11-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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