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| The following incidents have been described in notable sources as acts of '''] by the United States of America'''. | |||
| ==Cuba== | |||
| According to 'Centro de Estudios Sobre America. "Crisis de Octubre: Cronologia." Informe Especial', a CIA agent named Carlos Antonio Rodriguez Cabo committed various acts of terrorism.<ref></ref> | |||
| The United States government has conspired with organized crime figures to assassinate the Cuban head of state. In August 1960, Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the CIA's Office of Security, proposed the assassination of Fidel Castro by mafia assassins. Between August 1960, and April 1961, the CIA with the help of the Mafia pursued a series of plots to poison or shoot Castro (CIA, Inspector General's Report on Efforts to Assassinate Fidel Castro, p. 3, 14, archived at: www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/chron.html). | |||
| The United States has refused to put on trial or to extradite ], Guillermo Novo Sampol, Pedro Remon, and Gaspar Jimenezand to ] or ], although they are accused of having perpetrated terrorist acts. <ref>, Washington Post, Sept. 3, 2004</ref>. | |||
| ==Middle East== | |||
| According to former U.S. intelligence officials, the CIA orchestrated a bomb and sabotage campaign against ] that included civilian and government targets between 1992 and 1995<ref>"Ex-C.I.A. Aides Say Iraq Leader Helped Agency in 90's Attacks", by Joel Brinkley, , ], June 9, 2004</ref>. The civilian targets included at least one school bus, killing schoolchildren, and a movie theater, killing many people. | |||
| Respected ] journalist ] reported on May 8th 2006 that the US is widely believed to be behind some of the recent wave of 'insurgent' carbombings in ] along with numberous mass killings, of which the ] was just the best reported. <ref>"The shocking truth about the American occupation of Iraq", ], ], 03 June 2006</ref> | |||
| {{cquote|''One young Iraqi man told us that he was trained by the Americans as a policeman in Baghdad and he spent 70 per cent of his time learning to drive and 30 per cent in weapons training. They said to him: 'Come back in a week.' When he went back, they gave him a mobile phone and told him to drive into a crowded area near a mosque and phone them. He waited in the car but couldn't get the right mobile signal. So he got out of the car to where he received a better signal. Then his car blew up.''<ref>Is The US Provoking Civil War in Iraq?", by ], ], May 8 2006</ref>}} | |||
| ] has long been a target of CIA operations. In 1953 agent ] oversaw ], which involved organised riots and the training of right-wing terrorist groups in successful effort to overthrow Prime Minister ], and reverse the nationalisation of ] (later renamed ]). Following the coup, Iran became a US client state until the ] of 1979, when it again became a target. In 1988 ] was shot down by the ] while enroute from ] to ] killing all 290 civilian passangers. The US claimed the act it to be an error. However, following the incident, the men of the Vincennes were all awarded combat-action ribbons and the air-warfare co-ordinator won the navy's Commendation Medal for "heroic achievement" noting his "ability to maintain his poise and confidence under fire" that enabled him to "quickly and precisely complete the firing procedure." | |||
| ==Western Europe== | |||
| On ], ] it was acknowledged by Italian Prime Minister ] to the ] that ] had long held a secret policy of support and training for right wing terrorist organisations in member states. The policy, which is codenamed ], and related terrorist groups are thought to have carried out the ] <ref> {{it icon}}</ref>, the ], political ], military coups in ] and ] and an attempted coup in ]. The official aim was to prevent ] movements in Western Europe gaining power. However, many researchers have commented that the true aim was often to increase the power and control of the United States over Europe.<ref name="Ganser">Natos Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, by Daniele Ganser, ISBN 0714656070</ref> Officially, NATO refuses to comment on the issue, or confirm or deny the existence of Operation Gladio. | |||
| On 22 November 1990, the ] passed a resolution condemning Gladio and requesting full investigations. | |||
| In 2000, an Italian Parliament Commission report from the "Gruppo Democratici di Sinistra l'Ulivo" concluded that the ] had been supported by the United States to "stop the ] (Communist Party), and to a certain degree also the ], from reaching executive power in the country". A 2000 ] report, stated that "Those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organised or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of ]."<ref> , '']'', ], ] </ref> | |||
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