Within hours of a statement by Alan Gross's family and lawyer on the one-year anniversary of his arbitrary imprisonment by the Castro regime, the AP put out this gem of a story (or hack job):
Cuba Jewish groups deny work with jailed American
The leaders of Cuba's two main Jewish groups both denied having worked with a jailed American contractor whose family says he was on the island to hand out communication equipment to Jewish organizations.
Cuban authorities have accused Alan Gross of espionage, though they have not pressed charges despite keeping him in custody since he was detained last Dec. 3.
Adela Dworin, president of Havana's Temple Beth Shalom and Cuba's largest Jewish organization, the Jewish Community House, told The Associated Press on Wednesday it's possible Gross came to the center as one of "hundreds" of foreign visitors it receives each year. But she said she doesn't remember meeting him and he certainly was not doing any work with her group [...]
Dworin said many visitors bring donations - medicine for a community pharmacy, books, DVDs, computer games, food for religious festivals - but she stressed that the group would not accept any contraband equipment, or even have need for it.
"We have all the necessary media to communicate with the entire Jewish world," Dworin said. "We are able to communicate freely."
"We respect the laws of the country where we were born," she added.
Unfortunately (or purposefully), the AP fails to disclose Dworin's close (or at least, compromised) relationship with the Castro regime.
You'd think the fantastical absurdity of her comments would tip them off -- that's just sloppy (or biased) reporting.
Dworin is the one recently pictured below with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (and of course, The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg).
We couldn't track down the picture of her kissing Fidel that appeared in Cuban state media, but we'll keep looking.
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