1. The Daily Reflector, Sunday, September 4, 2011 A
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havana britain sanaa, yemen
Cuban defense minister, 75, dies Far-right protest held in London Suicide bomber kills 3 policemen
Gen. Julio Casas Regueiro, who over- Ignoring a government ban on marches A Yemeni security official said a sui-
saw the Cuban military’s lucrative eco- in London, hundreds of far-right activists cide car bomber killed three policemen at
nomic enterprises for years, died Saturday held a protest in the capital on Saturday a checkpoint in the port city of Aden on
of heart failure, state television reported. and some clashed with police. the Arabian Sea.
He was 75. It was the first large-scale protest in The security official said Saturday’s
Casas, who was also a vice president of London since a wave of looting and riots explosion took place on the road linking
the Council of State, Cuba’s supreme gov- shook it and other major British cities in Aden to Zinjibar, the provincial capital of
erning body, was the most important fig- early August. London was the worst-hit Abyan.
ure from the revolution to die since Juan city during that four-night rampage, with Zinjibar has fallen under the control of
Almeida Bosque in 2009, and his death hundreds of stores vandalized and build- Islamic militants affiliated with al-Qaida.
was sure to focus renewed attention on ings set on fire. Militants have seized a number of cit-
the fragility of the island’s aging leader- Police have been on high alert for street ies in southern Yemen, taking advantage
ship. violence ever since, and Home Secretary of political turmoil that erupted in Febru-
State television announced three days Theresa May has imposed a 30-day ban ary with mass protests against longtime
of national mourning in his honor, and it on marches in six parts of the capital, in- President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
began playing retrospective footage of his cluding Tower Hamlets, where the Eng- The official said gunmen stormed
life. It said that Casas’ body was cremated lish Defense League protested Saturday. the checkpoint after Saturday’s bomb-
in accordance with his wishes, and that The league insists it is a peaceful orga- ing.
his remains would be placed in the De- the associated press nization opposing the spread of Islamist The official was speaking on condition
fense Ministry headquarters on Havana’s Gen. Julio Casas reGueiro, 71, right, extremism in England, but its past pro- of anonymity because he was not autho-
Revolution Plaza for public viewing on and Vice-president esteban Lazo attend tests often have turned violent. rized to speak to the media.
Monday. A large amount of people is ex- a session cuba’s National assembly in Still, police said most of the demonstra-
pected to turn out. havana, cuba. tors in both groups remained peaceful. From Associated Press reports
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