At 3:36 AM -0700 9/16/97, Charles Anthony wrote:

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:31:46 -0400 To: fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu From: Scott Carr <scarr@bgnet.bgsu.edu> Subject: Cuban terrorist used encrypted phone Sender: owner-fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu

I just heard this on CNN. Apparently, the Cuban government has arrested an alleged terrorist for several hotel bombings. They clain he was hired by Anti-Castro forces in the US. Now, for the relavant part for the list;

Ah, but he is not a "terrorist," then. Being hired by anti-Castro forces in the United States automatically makes him a "freedom fighter." He's only a terrorist if he works for Oceania, er, Eastasia, er, whomever we don't currently like. Had he blown up a Cuban airliner, as CIA-supported forces did a while back, he would still be a freedom fighter. Had he sent a package of pamphlets to Hamas to aid in their struggle against the Zionist occupiers, he would be a terrorist. Is it clear now?

the Cubans also claim to have tapes of encrypted telephone conversations between the bomber and his backers. I do not know if the tapes are in the clear of not. Nice to know that law enforcement can still make arrests even when nasty, bad, encryption is being used. I wonder if the Cubans asked the US Governemnt for any keys....

(I wonder if there had been escrowed keys, if the US Government would have given them to Cuba.)

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