Obsessive bid to free Cuba ends in deadly speedboat confrontation off Havana

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A Florida-registered speedboat carrying 10 Cuban-Americans entered Cuban waters and exchanged fire with a Cuban border patrol, leaving four dead and six wounded; Cuban authorities say the group planned a terrorist attack and possessed weapons, with the wounded and a seventh suspect later arrested on the island. U.S. agencies are reviewing the incident as tensions with Cuba rise. The brother of one victim described his sibling as driven by an obsessive, diabolical bid to free Cuba, highlighting the personal toll behind the incident.
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