"Bernadette Meehan, spokesperson for the National Security Council, said in a statement that it is "another step forward toward a more normal and productive relationship between the United States and the Cuban people,”
Cuba was added to the terror list in 1982, accused by the U.S. of providing support to terrorist organizations in Latin America, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Sources tell ABC News today's action paves the way to opening embassies in Havana and Washington. An announcement on that move may come as early as next week."
YOU REALLY MIGHT LIKE TO READ ABOUT HOW "TERRORIST' THAT GROUP (FARC) REALLY IS.
THE COMMON MAN IN COLOMBIA BY FAR FAVORS THEM OVER THE U.S.-FINANCED TERRORISTS GROUPS DOWN THAT WAY!
[SEE The Politics of Imperialism and Counter-strategies by Pratyush Chandra and Anuradha Ghosh, which is only partially available online at the above link.]
FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH, SR., STARTED THE BALL ROLLING ON COVERT OPS IN COLOMBIA BY WOOING THEIR VERSION OF 'CONTRAS 'JUST AS HE HAD WOOED THE NICARAGUAN CONTRAS AND PANAMA'S NORIEGA FOR REAGAN.
BUSH #1 WAS A BUSY LITTLE BOY!
(YES, THERE ARE PHOTOS OF HIM WITH NORIEGA!) WHEN BUSH WAS CIA, VERY "COZY" PHOTOS!.)
THE SEVERAL PHOTOS OF THE PAIR BOATING IN THE FLORIDA KEYS ARE NICE, TOO.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, IN 1988, DID A NICE PIECE ON THE BUSH (DURING REAGAN'S REIGN) AND NORIEGA RELATIONSHIP.
POINT BEING, THE U.S. HAS LONG FUNDED ITS OWN TERRORIST GROUPS AND STILL DOES.
REAGAN HEAVILY ARMED THE TALIBAN, ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI WAS PHOTOGRAPHED SHOWING HOW TO OPERATE AMERICAN WEAPONS AMONG THE CIA-CREATED "AL QAEDA", AND RUMSFELD WAS VIDEOTAPED KISSING UP TO SADDAM HUSSEIN DURING REAGAN'S TIME AS WELL.
AMERICA HAS AN ONGOING LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE PLO, AND SPENT MILLIONS, PERHAPS BILLIONS FUNDING ANYBODY WHO WOULD TRY TO ERASE IRAN FROM THE PLANET, AND EGYPT, TOO, FOR A TIME.
THE U.S. HAS DEFINITELY GIVEN WEAPONS TO THE LIBYAN TERRORISTS AND HELPED THEM KILL GADDAFI.
WE'VE PAID HUGE AMOUNTS IN TO TERRORISTS TO WIPE OUT ASSAD IN SYRIA.
HELL, WE EVEN TRIED TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO AND HIS PAL HUGO CHAVEZ OF VENEZUELA!
MAYBE CUBA SHOULD RETHINK REESTABLISHING TIES WITH AMERICA?
A FANTASTIC SUMMARY OF, MAINLY, THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S PART IN MEDDLING IN AFFAIRS IN COLOMBIA CAN BE READ <HERE>.
AND, IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW MUCH AND HOW DEEPLY AMERICA HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN FUNDING THOSE OTHER TERRORISTS, JUST GOOGLE SEARCH THEM.
YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ, BUT IT'S FACTUAL.
AMERICA HAS CREATED A LIST OF THOSE OF ITS OWN CITIZENS WHO MAY SOMEDAY BE TARGETS FOR THOSE LITTLE KILLER DRONES!
JUST AS IT'S A "YES" TO REMOVING CUBA FROM OUR "NAUGHTY" LISTS, THE RE'S ALSO A "YES" THAT OUR RETURNING MILITARY VETERANS ARE STILL CLASSIFIED AS "POSSIBLE TERRORISTS", AND POLICE ACROSS THE NATION ARE STILL TRAINING ON HOW TO DEAL WITH "POSSIBLE TERRORIST VETERANS".
NOW THE DAMNED DOCUMENT WAS NOT, AS IN N-O-T, WRITTEN IN 2009!
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LOCATE THE ORIGINAL TO SEE WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN... YOU MAY FIND TWO DATES, 2007 AND 2008!
BUT AN EARLIER VERSION EXISTED IN...2001-2002!
IT WAS FIRST FORMULATED ALONGSIDE THE PATRIOT ACT WHICH BASICALLY CLASSIFIES EVERYONE THAT BREATHES AS "POSSIBLE TERRORISTS".
THE MISSOURI POLICE WERE ALREADY TRAINING AND DEPLOYING WITH THESE GUIDELINES IN DECEMBER, 2008!
HOMELAND SECURITY HAD THE DOCUMENT FOR INTRA-AGENCY DISTRIBUTION IN 2008.
NUTTY OLD ALEX JONES MADE A BIG DEAL OF IT IN FEBRUARY, 2008.
THIS CAME FROM THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, BUT OBAMA KEPT IT ALIVE, TRUE!
AND SO WILL THE NEXT PRESIDENT, JUST LIKE ALL HAVE KEPT THE ABOMINATION THAT IS FEMA ALIVE.
APRIL 16, 2009
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that she was briefed before the release of a controversial intelligence assessment and that she stands by the report, which lists returning veterans among terrorist risks to the U.S.
But the top House Democrat with oversight of the Department of Homeland Security said in a letter to Ms. Napolitano that he was “dumbfounded” that such a report would be issued.
“This report appears to raise significant issues involving the privacy and civil liberties of many Americans - including war veterans,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in his letter sent Tuesday night.
Homeland Security officials have declined to say who wrote report, except that it was a career official and not a political appointee.HOW CAN THAT BE THAT THEY DECLINE TO IDENTIFY THE AUTHOR?
AND HOW DID SAUDI ARABIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATE, KUWAIT, YEMEN, QATAR, AND AFGHANISTAN STAY OFF THE "STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM" LIST?
GO ASK YOUR CONGRESSIONAL WHORES.
GO ASK THE JOKE THAT IS OUR 'STATE DEPARTMENT'.
SO, WHICH NATIONS ARE LISTED?
ONLY THREE.
~ Iran, January 19, 1984
~ Sudan, August 12, 1993
~ Syria, December 29, 1979
HERE'S ANOTHER ODD BIT OF INFORMATION FOR YOU:
HAMAS, PALESTINIAN LIBERATION FRONT, PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD, POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE, ALL ARE STILL LISTED AS KNOWN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, BUT NOT ONE ISRAELI/JEWISH GROUP HAS EVER BEEN LISTED.
HOW CAN WE EXPLAIN WHY THE U.S. SENDS AID TO THESE "PALESTINIAN" TERRORISTS INSIDE "PALESTINE", ACTUALLY, GAZA, AND YET IS DISCONNECTING FROM ISRAEL?
GO TO THAT LINK TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT, SEE FOR YOURSELVES.
NOTICE THE PLO IS NO LONGER LISTED.
THAT'S A HOOT!
GO FIGURE, RIGHT?
AS FOR SAUDI SPONSORED TERRORISM, THOUSANDS OF ARTICLES WILL APPEAR IF YOU TYPE THAT INTO A GOOGLE SEARCH.
TWO SUCH ARTICLES FROM NEWS SOURCES IN THE UK HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD...
"TO REALLY COMBAT TERROR, END SUPORT FOR SAUDI ARABIA", SAYS ONE.
AUG. 31, 2014
"Although Saudi Arabia has given $100m (£60m) to the UN anti-terror programme and the country’s grand mufti has denounced Isis as “enemy number one”, radical Salafists across the Middle East receive ideological and material backing from within the kingdom.
According to Clinton’s leaked memo, Saudi donors constituted “the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide”.
Around 2,000 people have been killed since 1985 [BY SAUDI ARABIA] , their decapitated corpses often left in public squares as a warning. According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace. Shia Muslims are discriminated against and women are deprived of basic rights, having to seek permission from a man before they can even travel or take up paid work.
This human rights abusing regime is deeply complicit in the rise of Islamist extremism too. Following the Soviet invasion, the export of the fundamentalist Saudi interpretation of Islam –Wahhabism – fused with Afghan Pashtun tribal code and helped to form the Taliban. The Saudi monarchy would end up suffering from blowback as al-Qaida eventually turned against the kingdom."
"HOW SAUDI ARABIA HELPED ISIS TAKE OVER THE NORTH OF [IRAQ]", READS ANOTHER UK ARTICLE.
"Saudi sympathy for anti-Shia "militancy" is identified in leaked US official documents. The then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in December 2009 in a cable released by Wikileaks that "Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan] and other terrorist groups."
The West may have to pay a price for its alliance with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies, which have always found Sunni jihadism more attractive than democracy. A striking example of double standards by the western powers was the Saudi-backed suppression of peaceful democratic protests by the Shia majority in Bahrain in March 2011.
Some 1,500 Saudi troops were sent across the causeway to the island kingdom as the demonstrations were ended with great brutality and Shia mosques and shrines were destroyed.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan: "The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally 'God help the Shia'. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them."
The fatal moment predicted by Prince Bandar may now have come for many Shia, with Saudi Arabia playing an important role in bringing it about by supporting the anti-Shia jihad in Iraq and Syria.
Since the capture of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on 10 June, Shia women and children have been killed in villages south of Kirkuk, and Shia air force cadets machine-gunned and buried in mass graves near Tikrit.
"[There is no] doubt that substantial and sustained funding from private donors in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to which the authorities may have turned a blind eye, has played a central role in the Isis surge into Sunni areas of Iraq. an ex British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove has said: "Such things simply do not happen spontaneously." This sounds realistic since the tribal and communal leadership in Sunni majority provinces is much beholden to Saudi and Gulf paymasters, and would be unlikely to cooperate with Isis without their consent.
Western governments traditionally play down the connection between Saudi Arabia and its Wahhabist faith, on the one hand, and jihadism, whether of the variety espoused by Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida or by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's Isis.
There is nothing conspiratorial or secret about these links: 15 out of 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, as was Bin Laden and most of the private [Saudi] donors who funded the operation.
Saudi Arabia has created a Frankenstein's monster [ISIS] over which it is rapidly losing control."
"The Saudi government has been the principal financial backer of Afghanistan’ s odious Taliban movement since at least 1996. It has also channeled funds to Hamas and other groups that have committed terrorist acts in Israel and other portions of the Middle East.
Worst of all, the Saudi monarchy has funded dubious schools and “charities” throughout the Islamic world.
Those organizations have been hotbeds of anti-Western, and especially, anti-American, indoctrination.
The schools, for example, not only indoctrinate students in a virulent and extreme form of Islam, but also teach them to hate secular Western values.
Saudi Arabia enlisted in the 'fight against terrorism' only in response to intense pressure from the United States following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Those organizations have been hotbeds of anti-Western, and especially, anti-American, indoctrination.
The schools, for example, not only indoctrinate students in a virulent and extreme form of Islam, but also teach them to hate secular Western values.
Even then, its cooperation has been minimal and grudging.
For example, Riyadh has resisted Washington’s requests to use its bases in Saudi Arabia for military operations against Osama bin Laden’s terrorist facilities in Afghanistan.
REMEMBER THE CELEBRATIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER ARAB STATES AFTER 9/11?
I DO!
"Ninety percent of the Arab world believes that Americans got what they deserved."
- 87% said that 9/11 marked the beginning of the end for America.
- 88% said that they supported more attacks on America.
"After 9/11 there was celebration by Saudi's. The only way I can describe it was JOY. They were happy. I was there during 9/11 and many bombings of western compounds and the killing and beheading of Paul Johnson an American. "
[saudimedic, allnurses.com, March 31, 2008]
"We heard sporadic yelling in the streets and happy shouts from Saudis in our own hospital. In the terminal cancer ward, patients were hooting and screaming "Down with USA," much to the horror of the American nurses tending them. I went from feeling safe to feeling unsafe. "
["Trapped in Saudi Arabia on 9/11", Taresa Bott, Yahoo News, Tue, Aug 30, 2011 ]
"Saudi Arabia is said to be the world's largest source of funds and promoter of Salafist jihadism,[90] which forms the ideological basis of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS and others."
AGAIN, THE HYPOCRISY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS REGARDING CUBA, ANY ONE OF THEM EVEN INSINUATING THAT CUBA IS 1/10th THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM VIOLATOR THAT SAUDI ARABIA, CHINA, PAKISTAN, TURKEY, KUWAIT, AND A HOST OF OTHER "AMERICAN TRADE PARTNERS" , JUST SCREAMS "WE'RE INTO TRADING WITH ENEMY STATES AS LNG AS THE PROFITS ARE HIGH!"
MAKE $$$$$$$MEGA-BUCKS$$$$$$$$ FOR STOCKHOLDERS AND PET CORPORATIONS, MAKE WALL STREET HAPPY AND CONGRESS WILL SMILE AND LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE YOU BEHEAD AND STONE YOUR CITIZENS TO DEATH {LIKE SAUDI ARABIA), WHILE YOU THROW FEMALE BABIES ON TRASH HEAPS (LIKE CHINA).
CUBA OFFERS NO PROFITS TO STOCKHOLDERS UP ON CAPITOL HILL.
WALL STREET AND OTHERS VIEW CUBA THE SAME WAY THEY VIEW HAITI, PUERTO RICO, MEXICO AND MANY NATIONS IN AFRICA...
THEY DON'T PROMISE THE U.S. WEALTH, BUT ARE SEEN AS LIABILITIES!
AND FOR WE HERE, ESPECIALLY OUR RETURNING VETERANS, WELL, WE'RE ALL "POTENTIAL TERRORISTS" AND UP FOR A DRONE STRIKE ANY TIME IT PLEASES OUR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
CUBA IS OFF THE LIST...WHY THE HELL ISN'T SAUDI ARABIA ON IT?
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