Homeland Security Seizes 32 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas-Mexico Border


	Homeland Security Seizes 32 Computers Bound for Cuba at Texas-Mexico Border

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7-14-2008 5:10 PM

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The confiscated computers were donated by a Japanese-American group from the San Francisco Bay Area. They were so impressed with Cub's educational system that they collected PCs in their community to contribute to the 19th Pastors for Peace US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan. As a result of this US seizure, 32 Cuban classrooms will not have a computer </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/06/18513908.php"><DIV class="story"><DIV class="blurb"><BR /><STRONG>
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<A href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/03/18513052.php">Caravan to Cuba needs help</A> | <A href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/08/18514514.php">Call Border Patrol</A> |
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In addition to the computers, participants are taking 100 tons of humanitarian aid across the US-Mexico border and on to Cuba. The aid includes wheelchairs, medicine, medical equipment, musical instruments</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/06/18513908.php">
Federal agents seized 32 computers from Pastors for Peace as they attempted to cross the Pharr International Bridge early this morning at the US-Mexico border.
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