On Oct 8, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18739
>> ...They carried off among the first airplane hijackings in history.
> In the last months of 1958 members of Castro's movement hijacked
> three different Cubana airliners at gunpoint. The last one was a
> flight from Miami to Varadero that was diverted at gunpoint to
> rebel-held territory in Cuba's eastern Oriente province. Despite the
> pilot's frantic pleas the plane was forced to attempt a landing on a
> tiny airstrip near Raul Castro's rebel camp, where it crashed in a
> huge fireball. 17 of the 20 passengers died in the explosion...
>
> In November 17th 1962, the FBI uncovered a terrorist plot that
> targeted Manhattans's Grand Central Terminal and Statue of Liberty ,
> along with department stores Macy's, Gimbels and Bloomindales. The
> plotters had 12 detonators and 500 kilos of TNT. The explosions were
> planned for November 27th 1962, the day after Thanksgiving, the
> busiest shopping day of the year. The chief plotter was Roberto
> Santiesteban, chief aide to Cuba's U.N. ambassador, Carlos Lechuga.
> Under him were Elsa and Jose Gomez, also employed by Cuba's diplomatic
> mission at the U.N. The rest of the plotters belonged to The Fair Play
> for Cuba Committee. Had those detonators gone off, 9-11's death toll
> would have almost certainly taken seconds. In 2003 alone, the U.S.
> was forced to expel 14 Cuban "diplomats." All worked at the United
> Nations.
Yeah, that Castro, such a bastard - more than 40 years of relentless terror against the US - invasions, assassination plots, germ warfare, propaganda broadcasts, it just never stops.
Doug