COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM

COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
2008-05-04. U.S. Department of State, www.state.gov, April 30, 2008

Chapter 3 -- State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview

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CUBA

The Government of Cuba remained opposed to U.S. counterterrorism policy,
and actively and publicly condemned many associated U.S. policies and
actions. To U.S. knowledge, the Cuban government 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.

No new counterterrorism laws were enacted, nor were any executive orders
or regulations issued in this regard. The Government of Cuba provided
safe haven to members of ETA, the FARC, and the ELN. It maintained close
relationships with other state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Syria.

The Cuban government continued to permit more than 70 U.S. fugitives to
live legally in Cuba and refused almost all U.S. requests for their
return. These U.S. fugitives include convicted murderers (two of them
killed police officers) as well as numerous hijackers, most of whom
entered Cuba in the 1970s. The government returned one American citizen
fugitive when that person sailed his boat into Cuban waters and it was
determined that he was wanted on fraud charges in the state of Utah. The
Cuban government stated in 2006 that it would no longer provide safe
haven to new U.S. fugitives entering Cuba.

The Cuban government did not extradite suspected terrorists during the year.

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