War on terror may extend to Cuba

by ominous balloon floated

Tue, May 7, 2002 6:20PM

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday May 7, 2002
The Guardian

The US threatened to extend its war on terror to Cuba yesterday, accusing Fidel Castro's regime of developing biological weapons and sharing its expertise with Washington's enemies.

In a speech called Beyond the Axis of Evil, the undersecretary of state John Bolton presented no evidence for his claims, pointing only to Cuba's advanced biomedical industry and Mr Castro's visits last year to three "rogue states" accused by the the US state department of sponsoring terrorism: Iraq, Syria and Libya.

"States that renounce terror and abandon WMD [weapons of mass destruction] can become part of our effort," Mr Bolton said. "But those that do not can expect to become our targets."

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Larry Birns, head of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs thinktank in Washington, said yesterday: "What is dangerous now is that the anti-terrorist war has no standards and no criteria. It is whatever the Bush administration says it is at any given moment."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,711100,00.html

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