Castro cites report on 3
countries "plot" to
start Iraq war
Cuban leader Fidel
Castro on Friday cited a
report carried in a
Spanish daily as saying
leaders of the United
States and Britain and
Spanish had met for a
"plot" to start the 2003
war on Iraq to get rid
of its former leader
Saddam Hussein.
U.S. President George W.
Bush, former British
Prime Minister Tony
Blair and former Spanish
Prime Minister Jose
Maria Aznar had met for
the plot at Portugal's
Azores islands on March
16, 2003, three days
prior to launching the
war on Iraq, he cited
Spanish daily El Pais as
saying.
The article carried in
El Pais narrates how the
leaders of the three
countries unilaterally
decided to launch the
aggression, said Castro
in his weekly
"Reflections" published
by local press.
The three men had
infringed on the
functions of the UN
Security Council by so
doing, he added.
Castro, 81, temporarily
handed over power to his
younger brother Raul
Castro, Cuba's vice
president and defense
minister, on July 31
last year, due to an
intestinal hemorrhage.
He has rarely been seen
in public ever since.
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