Cuba Slams US Terror Shelter

Havana, Apr 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon reiterated his country´s accusations against the United States for protecting terrorist Luis Posada Carriles with legal conspiracies.

In a solemn act held Wednesday on occasion of the 100th birthday of Raul Roa (1907-1982), Alarcon said that Washington "has spent two years protecting Posada Carriles with legal maneuvering to evade extraditing him to Venezuela or trying him as terrorist." "We must return to the thoughts of Roa, known as the Chancellor of Dignity, because Cuba s dangers are immense," the National Peoples Power Assembly (Congress) president stated.

Addressing leaders gathered at Havana University s Aula Magna, Alarcon denounced that the US government, led by President George W.

Bush, spends hundreds of millions of dollars against the island.

While protecting Posada Carriles, noted Alarcon, the White House maintains for almost nine years five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in prison, whose mission was to prevent Miami-based terrorist groups from attacking Cuba.

Both cases, pointed out the island s Congressional leader, currently prove the US criminal nature and its desire to destroy the Cuban Revolution.

Taken from the web site(www.plenglish.com)