Cuba Makes US Terror Report

Cuba Makes US Terror Report
Hardbeatnews, WASHINGTON, D.C.,
Tues. May 1, 2007:

For the second consecutive year, Cuba has made the US' terror report for
state sponsored terrorism.

"Cuba continued to publicly oppose the U.S.-led Coalition prosecuting
the War on Terror," the Country Report on Terrorism released by the
Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism of the US State
Department, announced yesterday. "To U.S. knowledge, Cuba did not
attempt to track, block, or seize terrorist assets, although the
authority to do so is contained in Cuba's Law 93 against Acts of
Terrorism, as well as Instruction 19 of the Superintendent of the Cuban
Central Bank."

The report also claims Cuba was included as a "terror state" since no
new counterterrorism laws were enacted in the country and no executive
orders or regulations were issued.

The US government also claimed that the Cuban government had not
undertaken any counterterrorism efforts in international and regional
fora or taken action against any designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

"The government of Cuba provided safe haven to members of ETA, FARC, and
the ELN, and maintained close relationships with other state sponsors of
terrorism such as Iran," stated the report. "The Cuba-Iran Joint
Commission met in Havana in January (and) the Cuban government continued
to permit U.S. fugitives to live legally in Cuba and is unlikely to
satisfy U.S. extradition requests for terrorists harbored in the country."

Meanwhile, Suriname was cited in the report for not yet signing on to
the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and
for having no laws or regulations that would enable the authorities to
freeze and seize funds and assets related to terrorist financing.

The report also claims that if any terrorists are present in the former
Dutch colony, the likelihood of apprehending them is low because of the
lack of border and immigration control by police and officials, and
because Suriname has no system for registering and monitoring visitors.
– Hardbeatnews.com

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