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 HAVANA (AP) - Convalescing leader Fidel Castro on Monday linked last week's deadly hijacking attempt to an American court's decision to free anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles on bond.
In his latest communique, e-mailed to journalists by the Foreign Ministry, Castro said that two defecting Cuban soldiers who tried to hijack a U.S.-bound plane and killed an army official in the process were encouraged by the lax U.S. handling of violent acts against the island nation.
In Castro's statement, the latest of five in recent weeks entitled "Reflections of the Commander of Chief," the 80-year-old leader described the attempted hijacking as "a consequence of freeing the monster of terror."
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