FC: An irritated Fidel Castro denies he's planning a "cyberattack"

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

The strange thing is that out of the reporters writing about the annual 
World Threat Assessment hearing in February, nobody else picked up on those 
truly weird comments about Castro being a cyberthreat. (Perhaps they lack 
the same appreciation for the bizarre.) You can see my article at the time 
here:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01713.html

Transcript:
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/08/1638232

-Declan

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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010614/wl/cuba_us_cyberattacks_1.html
Castro Denounces Cyberattack Concerns
Thursday June 14 3:38 PM ET

HAVANA (AP) - An irritated Fidel Castro on Thursday dismissed concerns 
about Cuban cyberterrorism against the United States as ``craziness,'' 
saying his country doesn't have the technology to launch such attacks even 
if it wanted to. U.S. officials who believe that Cuba could and would 
attack the country's computer networks are ``orphans, and bereft of 
ideas,'' Castro said in a speech shown on state television. He called the 
United States ``an empire that only knows lies.''
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