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Robert Torricelli: “Indeed, it is because of not only allowing them to operate but a permanent presence for these terrorist organizations in…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2001
Indeed, it is because of not only allowing them to operate but a permanent presence for these terrorist organizations in Havana that the State Department, under both the Clinton administration and now the Bush administration, has cited Fidel Castro's government as being complicit with terrorism on what remains a very small list of rogue nations. This is not conduct where terrorists simply pass through the country. It requires a continuous, outrageous national policy of actually harboring these organizations that the Senator cited.
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Robert Torricelli
New Jersey

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Discussing the U.S. government's stance on Cuba's support for terrorist organizations.

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