Simply pathetic; how the United States conducts itself with respect to Cuba, a Caribbean island controlled for over 50 years by Fidel Castro, an assassin and tyrant, and his brother Raul. The United States government grovels at the feet of these communist pigs, and has been doing so since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Why not simple DEMAND that Alan P. Gross be freed within say, 48 hours, or else we will send in the troops. Believe me, there wouldn’t be much resistance from the Cuban military. In fact, they would probably join our forces on the mission.
It really irks me that this country has been involved in military operations if not all-out war in places like Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan (just to name a few) and that communist Cuba is merely 90 miles from our shores and we continue to allow the clowns who rule the island to make a mockery of the United States. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Jewish groups to join the campaign to persuade Cuba to release a U.S. government contractor detained on the communist island for seven months without charge.
Clinton told representatives of the American Jewish community that they should add their voices to calls for Cuba to release Alan P. Gross, a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor who was helping members of Cuba’s small Jewish community use the Internet to stay in contact with each other and with similar groups abroad.
“Alan was providing information and technology that would assist this community to be better connected,” Clinton said at a State Department reception in honor of Hannah Rosenthal, the Obama administration’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. Gross’ wife, Judy, attended the event.
“Our government works every single day through every channel for his release and safe return home,” Clinton said. “But I am really making an appeal to the active Jewish community here in our country to join this cause … because this family deserves to be reunited and each and every one of us should do everything we can to make it clear to the Cuban government that Alan Gross needs to come home.”
Gross, a 60-year-old native of Potomac, Md., was working in Cuba for a firm contracted by USAID when he was arrested as a suspected spy in Havana on Dec. 3. He has been held without charge in the capital’s high-security Villa Marista prison since.
The U.S. says Gross committed no crime and has repeatedly appealed for his release on humanitarian grounds. In May, the head of Cuba’s high court said prosecutors had yet to open a legal case against him. Formal charges can’t be filed in Cuba without a judicial accusation and the opening of a case, so it appears unlikely charges against Gross are imminent.
Judy Gross has said her husband had brought communications equipment intended only for humanitarian purposes and not for political use by Cuba’s small dissident community. Satellite phones and other telecommunications materials are outlawed in Cuba, where the government maintains strict control over Internet access and the media.
Clinton’s appeal to the U.S. Jewish community followed the release on Tuesday of seven jailed Cuban dissidents who were sent to Spain, the first of 52 political prisoners to be freed under an agreement worked out between Cuban authorities and the Catholic church.
