Comments on: Outrage and Double Standards: The Lockerbie and Cubana Airline Bombings

By: David Alfaro

David Alfaro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:45:42 +0000

Any terrorist act is stunning, but Castro was the first terrorist in Cuba. Were justifiable the bombs planted in Cuba by 26/7? Maybe the “cause”, “revolutionary violence” justify that.
Many years with no proof / certainty that it was done by those guys it is almost a stupidity making echo of that. Very rare similarity with the Cuban Five convicted of a crime but elevate dot the category of heroes with the assistant of ingenious writers.
Not justifiable, but it may be an answer to Castro’s position “I took this by bullets and MUST be taken by bullets”In other hand, why no other investigation lines were / are followed? “. After declaring that it was a set-up to those anti-communists, El Mono Morales” was killed and he knew well because he part of Cuban intelligence.
Not suspicious yet? Great for you, being an agent of propaganda / intelligence / organized crime organization in the world has some rewards. Just a supporter, an informant, a channel is rewarded too! Go for it!!

By: Josie Michel-Brüning

Josie Michel-Brüning — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:22:40 +0000

Dear Keath Bollender, thank you very much for this brilliant article. I think, it doesn't matter, if the Cubana 455 originally startet originally from Guyana, well there had been Guyanese people on board too, but the terrorist attack was addressed to Cubans and to those being friends of Cuba.
Please, excuse me for my poor English, but I have to object to some of the comments above.
Cuba's contribution to the war in Angola was for helping black people to overcome the Apartheid regime. And the only condition Cuba called for in the treaty of peace then was to free Nelson Mandela from his prison on Robbin Island. And Nelson Mandela said words like that to Fidel Castro: "I ow you my freedom " or so. The value of this article in my opinion is that it shows the double standard and the hypocrisy of Washington in its so called war on terrorism.
Another aspect to consider is when mentioning Cuba's former dependance from the Soviet Union: it was forced to seek for help confronting such a powerful enemy in his neighborhood.
You have to consider the interferences during the Cold War.
Do you remember the McCarthy era? When German communists having fled from Germany during the Nazi regime into the USA, as poets and authors like Berthold Brecht and Heinrich Mann, they fled from the "land of the free" to the former GDR where they could live in peace and would not be imprisoned.
For instance, during the 1950s in Western Germany (in dependance from USA) the same communists having been in imprisoned by Nazis were imprisoned again by our government.
History is much more complicated than you obviously have learned at school. Please, make your own research.
Apart from that, I appreciate very much the mentioning of the "Cuban Five", see: http://www.freethefive.org .

By: keith

keith — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:13:39 +0000

thanks for the info, let me check on it in cuba; i can get access to the itinerary from the victims organization. it may have been something special for this flight cause it was carrying the cuban sportspeople.

By: Daren David

Daren David — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:23:19 +0000

I should add that my flights on Cubana 455 were from Georgetown (Guyana) to Havana and back.

By: Daren David

Daren David — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:21:16 +0000

Keith, your info on the flight is wrong. The Cubana flight 454 was a weekly flight from Havana to Georgetown with stops at Kingston, Bridgetown and Port of Spain. The plane over-nighted in Georgetown and then would leave around midday as CU455 stopping at Port of Spain, Bridgetown and Kingston. I traveled on Cubana 455 to Havana twice in the 1976. In Port of Spain it picked up passengers who arrived with the Aeropostal and Viasa flights from Caracas.