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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (2nd L) stands with trainers of Havana's National Aquarium during a visit July 15, 2010. Castro has been seen only in occasional photographs and videos since he underwent emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 and ceded power provisionally to his younger brother, Raul Castro. He resigned in February 2008 and Raul Castro was officially elected president by the National Assembly.
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By Jeff Franks
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Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:12pm EDT
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro took his warning of impending nuclear war to Cuba's Foreign Ministry on Friday, where he explained the reasons for his dire prediction in his fifth public appearance in 10 days.
Castro's sudden re-emergence after four years in seclusion for health reasons has raised questions about his intentions, but his message has been consistent -- a devastating war is at hand if the United States, in alliance with Israel, tries to enforce international sanctions against Iran for its nuclear activities.
He also has predicted the United States will attack North Korea.
"The United States finds itself now in an unsolvable dilemma (in the Middle East). It cannot get out, nor can it stay," Castro told 115 ambassadors, who listened with rapt attention.
"It won't get out of that situation through diplomacy, but through the power of its arms," he said, pointing his finger in the air and pontificating at length as in the old days.
Castro, 83, spoke for more than an hour as he sat in front of the ambassadors. He looked fit, relaxed and fully in charge as he took questions and read numerous news reports to back up his position.
He said he had partially recovered from the "sudden and grave situation of health" that forced him from power.
Castro disappeared from public view following emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 and ceded power to his younger brother, now President Raul Castro.
He resurfaced on July 7 at a scientific research center in Havana and has since made several appearances in person and in a videotaped television interview.
Theories abound about why the man who ruled Cuba for 49 years after taking power in a 1959 revolution has returned to public view. He has said his only interest is in warning the world of the coming conflict.
His reappearance has coincided with Cuba's biggest release of political prisoners since 1998, in a deal cut with the Catholic Church, and intentional or not, has drawn away from it.
The church announced on July 7 that 52 political prisoners, or about a third of the island's jailed dissidents, would be freed over the next few months. The releases began on Monday.
Wide-ranging speculation includes theories that Castro is sending a message of stability at a time of uncertainty about Cuba's future, that he felt his warning of war was being ignored, or that he simply wanted to return to the limelight.
The Cuban government has said nothing except for the reports of his visits in state-run media, which on Friday said Foreign Ministry employees and people from the surrounding neighborhood sent him off with a "prolonged ovation and emotional (shouts of) 'Viva.'"
(Additional reporting by Rosa Tania Valdes; Editing by Chris Wilson)
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Jul 16, 2010 9:39pm EDT
God BlessFidel Castro; anddeath to USA and its criminal partners!
Kiumars
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Jul 16, 2010 10:30pm EDT
As a Communist and presumably atheist, I doubt Castro would much appreciate being God blessed.
But I’m afraid he’s spot on about the danger of nuclear war posed by the USA and its asinine, Israeli-dictated Middle East policy.
Johnny2Bad
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Jul 16, 2010 10:58pm EDT
Too funny , he so full of it , Like the americans believes anything this guy says , the more he speaks the less credible and insignificant he becomes …
penvk
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Jul 16, 2010 11:05pm EDT
Castro is right at least about the dangers of American military projection
Rfairb
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Jul 17, 2010 12:43am EDT
Hugh, Friend;
You’d better take playboy private soon, looks like you have some competition from la chauvinismo puerta proximo, Fifidel’s new reality TV Series – Dick Tater and the politically imprisoned girls next door.
Got a good grip on that one…
She must not like bad breath, cocaine, marxism, cigars and old-rum.
Well, maybe just marxism and bad breath…same thing really…
Don’t take it too personally fidel, I’ll probably get punched tomorrow for this one, at least your getting laid and we can be reasonably sure you don’t have a ferrari or a nuclear missle.
Kennedy kinda kicked your ass there.
Remember, we do.
sdf
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Jul 17, 2010 2:46am EDT
It’s difficult to point to the finger at someone else when you’re single-handedly responsible for denying the human right of freedom to an entire country of people. Even if he’s right about the US, he’s responsible for far more human suffering than one man should ever be capable of causing.
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