Cuba says Iran was jamming US satellite broadcasts: State Department

[Judi Lynn]

Cuba says Iran was jamming US satellite broadcasts: State Department
August 20, 2003


(snip) Cuba has told the United States that an Iranian diplomatic facility in or near Havana was the source of the jamming that disrupted US Farsi-language satellite broadcasts to Iran last month, the State Department said.

And, in an unusual display of cooperation between the Cold War enemies, Havana appears to have actually acted on pledges to halt the interference which had prompted a formal protest from Washington, it said.

"It has ceased," said Jo-Anne Prokopowicz, a department spokeswoman.

After denying that it was responsible for the jamming but pledging to investigate the US complaints in mid-July, Cuba told the United States that it had found the source and had acted to stop it, she said.

"Cuba informed us on August 3 that they had located the source of the interference and had taken action to stop it," Prokopowicz said.

"The government of Cuba informed us that the interference was coming from an Iranian diplomatic facility," she said, adding: "We will be following this up with Iran." (snip/...)

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Once again, an outlandish story from _Bush's State Department, when confronted over charges it has made concerning Cuba, backs away quietly, with NO public admission of error.

SOUNDS TOO DAMNED FAMILIAR.

[Caution]

1. Well to be fair

anyone who has ever been interested in shortwave radio is well aware that cuba routinely jams US shortwave transmissions (as do china and many various middle east nations). The U.S. has been known to do the same.

[papau]

2. US Media headlined "Cuba jamming" - will they mention retraction?

Silly question I know - would not be patriotic.

Besides there was indeed jamming coming from the Island of Cuba - it was only the assertion that the gov of Cuba was responsible that was the US lie - so maybe only that assertion that will be noted as the retraction?

Oh, I keep forgetting - truth telling about Bush is unpatriotic if it shows he and his admin made an error. Don't want to mess up the "elect Bush in 04" that the Board members of the Corp that owns each media outlet wants to happen.

Not that US Media is GOP RW controlled - they just act that way.

[Judi Lynn]

3. An example of Bush's propaganda war

among HUNDREDS of articles on this charge:

(snip) By successfully jamming a U.S. communications satellite over the Atlantic Ocean, the regimes of Cuba and Iran challenged U.S. dominance of space and the assumptions of free access to satellite communication that makes undisputed U.S. military power possible.

The Bush administration, meanwhile, appears paralyzed about how to cope with this latest threat, which one U.S. official likens to an "act of war."

The target of these terrorist states: Telestar-12, a commercial communications satellite orbiting at 15 degrees west, 22,000 miles above the Atlantic.

At press time, nearly a month has passed since the Cuban government began jamming U.S. government and private Persian-language TV and radio broadcasts into Iran. (snip/...)

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33957

This has to be tossed into the basket along with "dual purpose medical research," etc., etc.

They didn't rehire Cuban "exile" Otto Reich, who illegally flooded the media with outright lies, including bogus letters to the editor from fictitious U.S. military figures, completely misleading and utterly false information planted in foreign and domestic press articles, and atrocious deviant sex character assassination of American journalists following Contra news in Nicaragua, FOR NOTHING.

He's a useful weapon for any rightwing regime too busy in grabbing power to do things legally. He was under intense scrutiny for his illegal actions a long time, yet still employed with enthusiasm by George Bush.