It's Thursday, May 21st, 2006.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Big day in history yesterday, the scene of federal courthouse in Miami, and there the acting Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche,

stood to announce that authorities had issued multiple indictments against Cuban leaders, including

Raul Castro, the former president of Cuba. The direct indictments include four counts of murder,

one count of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, also two counts of the

destruction of aircraft. This goes back to an attack by MIG jets of the Cuban Air Force against

civilian planes, unarmed planes, on a philanthropic mission. And this led to the deaths of four of those

individuals who were trying to help the Cuban people.

And you had the Cuban Air Force shoot them down.

The violence was such that the bodies of the four were never located.

They were probably just destroyed in terms of the attack.

This is big news.

It's just giant news.

And by the way, the location, of course, was not an accident because Miami is so close to Cuba. And Miami is the news. It's just giant news. And by the way, the location, of course, was not an accident

because Miami is so close to Cuba. And Miami is the central point of identity for many Cuban

Americans. And there were a good many Cuban Americans, a good many people who had suffered

directly under the repression of the Castro regime who were celebrating the event, declaring it to be a long-delayed action

of righteousness and a call to justice. Let's just remind yourselves of what is at stake.

We're talking about the Cuban Communist Revolution, and it began as a revolution that wasn't

explicitly communist. It turned far more explicitly communist after Fidel Castro, the senior revolutionary,

and the older brother of Raul Castro, the man who was indicted. It was Fidel Castro who really

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