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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said yesterday that there was a possibility that Cuba was working with Hezbollah, a Lebanese terrorist organization, and warned of the possibility of the group installing missile or weapon caches on the island just off the shore of Florida.

"Why would you normalize trading with a country that sponsors terror? There’s reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah," Bachmann said at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you’re 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don’t want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. This would be foolish."

Bachmann was referring to a report in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, which claime! d that Hezbollah was setting up a base in Cuba to target Israelis in Latin America. The article was circulated on some conservative blogs, but did not report that Hezbollah planned to import weapons; rather, the terror operation was said to be oriented around intelligence collection, coordination of the group's logistics in Latin America, and identification forgery. 

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