U.S. official (Otto Reich): Cuba may have staged boat hijacking

[Mika]

Notice how the CANF is positioning itself (in the media) as a moderate entity. This is all stage craft orchestrated by Herr Reich.


U.S. official: Cuba may have staged boat hijacking
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6493243.htm

A top Bush administration official Friday said the Cuban government may have orchestrated a recent boat hijacking to drive a wedge between South Florida's Cuban Americans.
''Look at the result, at the impact that has caused this community,'' Otto Reich, U.S. special envoy to the Western hemisphere, said in an interview.
In the wake of last month's hijacking of the Gaviota, a Cuban government-owned boat, Cuban Americans heaped blame on the Bush administration and Cuban-American legislators for returning the would-be immigrants to the island.
''This was a million-dollar operation -- you couldn't buy that kind of discord,'' Reich said.

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Meanwhile, the Cuban American National Foundation -- which, in a role that is rare, is the main group criticizing the Bush administration -- didn't buy Reich's story, and said his accusations were made to deflect criticism, spokesman Joe Garcia said.
''Show me the proof,'' Garcia said.