Shooting Charge at Guantanamo Denied
Defense Department officials Friday denied charges by Cuba that American troops fired shots from the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay toward two Cuban guard posts.
“There were exercises down there, but nobody was shooting at the Cubans,” said a Navy spokesman, Cmdr. Ned Lundquist.
The official Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said the Cuban army reported that shots were fired Thursday from the U.S. base at Guantanamo at one Cuban guard post at 10 a.m. and at another guard post at about 1 p.m.
The Guantanamo base, about 500 miles southeast of Havana, has been in operation since the late 1890s at the time of the Spanish-American War.
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