Re: Blow-by-blow account of Brothers to the Rescue tragedy

On Aug 13, 4:00 pm, "PL" <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dan Christensen" <dch...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Aug 5, 3:27 am, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

Many Americans, says Khuly, have only a nebulous notion of the complex
escalation of events that led to the shootdown. Too many believe that
the Cessnas were shot down in Cuban territorial waters, as Havana
claimed.

[snip]

With good reason. See "Human Rights / The BTR Shootdown Revisited" at
my website.

Just a pack of lies comrade Dan


No lies, Mr. Lobbyist... just one inconvenient truth after another for
yoy. As I conclude in my article:

The evidence supporting US claims that the BTR planes were shot down
in international airspace is incomplete and inconsistent. Critical
portions of the evidence supporting Cuban claims - specifically, large
portions of the transcript of Cuban communications between the fighter
pilots and their ground controller - were either ignored or suppressed
in the ICAO report. A US expert, some years later, was able to
determine, from what was apparently a complete transcript, that the
BTR planes were indeed shot down in Cuban territory. Even claims that
these were civilian aircraft are tenuous. As corroborated by the same
expert, they had US Air Force markings and had previously been engaged
in illegal, military-style psychological warfare operations (psyops)
against the Cuban government. The planes used were also formerly used
by the US Air Force in the Vietnam War for just this purpose. Some
versions of this aircraft were even armed with rocket launchers and
machine guns. And this formation of three such planes was personally
led by an admitted anti-Cuban terrorist! Can there be any doubt that
the USAF today would not hesitate to shoot down a formation of planes,
piloted by known enemies and terrorists, headed toward Washington DC,
and refusing to heed warnings from civil air traffic controllers to
turn away?

Dan
Visit my CUBA: Issues & Answers website at
http://www.netcom.ca/~dchris/CubaFAQ.html


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