Along with his terrorist war [on Cuba], Kennedy imposed a trade embargo of unprecedented severity, barring any transaction involving merchandise “of Cuban origin” or that “has been located or transported from or through Cuba [or] is made or derived in whole or in part of any article which is the growth, produce, or manufacture of Cuba.” In the years that followed, huge resources have been devoted to monitor international commerce to ensure that the strictures are upheld …
On illustration has been provided by the treasury Department, reporting to Congress in April 2004 on the activities of its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), responsible for investigating suspicious financial transfers, a central component of the “war on terror.” OFAC informed Congress that of its 120 employees, four were assigned to tracking the finances of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, while almost two dozen were occupied with enforcing the embargo against Cuba. From 1990 to 2003, OFAC reported 93 terrorism-related investigations with $9,000 in fines; and 11,000 Cuba-related investigations with $8 million in fines. (Chomsky, introduction to Voices From the Other Side, by Keith Bolender)
In fairness to OFAC, they might well have known what the rest of us came to understand later, that by 2004 both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were dead.
Even so, it is interesting to note the vigor with which our government fights to withhold basic freedoms from little Cuba while virtually ignoring its own self-proclaimed War on Terror.
Piece of Mindful 
So, the U.S.DNI released a list of books and other materials that purportedly bin Laden had in his “library” when they allegedly “killed” him. Of course, everybody’s clamoring that two of Chomsky’s books were in the trove:
• Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
• Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/resources/bin-laden-bookshelf?start=3
I find it a bit humorous that in the DNI’s propaganda efforts, they list Chomsky’s book on thought control. Careful Mark, anybody who’s caught reading that book is now a bin Laden co-conspirator!
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I also heard on a radio broadcast back in 2011 that they found black hair dye, claiming that bin Laden wanted to look younger for the films he had shot in the intervening years since 2001. This was a cover story for the obvious impostors they used to make those films.
Too bad. This shit works. People eat it up. There seems to be little or no resistance to propaganda in the population.
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