 HAVANA (AP) - President Fidel Castro called the U.S. airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a "barbarity," saying he should have been put on trial. The United States acted as "judge and jury" against the leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq, Castro said late Friday. "They bragged, they were practically drunk with happiness."
| I was pretty drunk with happiness myself. |
"The accused cannot just be eliminated," he told a literacy conference. "This barbarity cannot be done."
| "You have a show trial first and then shoot them, just like we did in '59." |
Castro said if Cuba used the same logic, it could bomb the United States to kill its No. 1 enemy, Luis Posada Carriles, who is being held in El Paso, Texas on immigration charges.
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