Castro: Al-Zarqawi Killing a ‘Barbarity’
Sunday June 11, 2006 4:01 AM
HAVANA (AP) –
President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a “barbarity,” saying he should have been put on trial.
The United States acted as “judge and jury” against the leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq, Castro said late Friday.“They bragged, they were practically drunk with happiness.”
“The accused cannot just be eliminated,” he told a literacy conference. “This barbarity cannot be done.”
The U.S. military has said al-Zarqawi initially survived the dropping of two 500-pound bombs on his hide-out Wednesday, but died a short time later.
Castro said if Cuba used the same logic, it could bomb the United States to kill its No. 1 enemy, Luis Posada Carriles, who is being held in El Paso, Texas on immigration charges.
The communist government accuses the Cuban-born Posada of masterminding numerous violent attacks against the island, including the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in 1976. Posada denies involvement in the bombing of the plane.
Wild Thing’s comment….
Laughable coming from this champion of human rights. It can’t be long now, till Jimma Carter jumps in.