Bill Clinton, Terrorism and Attempted Assassination
Jorge Mas Canosa and Bill Clinton
From: Key Cuba Foe Claims Exiles' Backing, New York Times, July 12, 1998
IAMI -- A Cuban exile who has waged a campaign of bombings and assassination attempts
aimed at toppling Fidel Castro says that his efforts
were supported financially for more than a decade
by the Cuban-American leaders of one of America's
most influential lobbying groups.
The exile, Luis Posada Carriles, said he organized a wave of bombings in Cuba last year at hotels, restaurants and discothèques, killing an Italian tourist and alarming the Cuban Government. Posada was schooled in demolition and guerrilla warfare by the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960's.
In a series of tape-recorded interviews at a walled Caribbean compound, Posada said the hotel bombings and other operations had been supported by leaders of the Cuban-American National Foundation. Its founder and head, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died last year, was embraced at the White House by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton.
Although the tax-exempt foundation has declared that it seeks to bring down Cuba's Communist Government solely through peaceful means, Posada said leaders of the foundation discreetly financed his operations. Mas personally supervised the flow of money and logistical support, he said.
"Jorge controlled everything," Posada said. "Whenever I needed money, he said to give me $5,000, give me $10,000, give me $15,000, and they sent it to me."
Analysis of the "Anti-Terrorism" Act - Repression under the Guise of Protecting the People - In early 1995, the Clinton Administration Introduced a very dangerous piece of legislation, the Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Act.
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According to Israeli opposition leader Ehud Barak, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told him today that he himself had directed the effort to kill Meshal. Senior U.S. officials, who have participated in the American efforts at damage control, confirmed that the orders came from the highest levels of Israel's government.
Yet after spraying what U.S. and Jordanian officials described as a
lethal nerve toxin through the Hamas leader's skin, Israel was
compelled to meet Jordanian and American demands to supply the
antidote - an extraordinary if indirect admission of Israeli
sponsorship of an assassination attempt.
Botched Assassination by Israel Gives New
Life to Hamas -
By Barton Gellman,
Washington Post Foreign Service,
Monday, October 6, 1997