Whereupon the Cuban Air Force. without warning and without reason. scrambled two MiG fighters and blew the rescue planes out of the sky. The Cessnas and their passengers were disintegrated by the Cuban MiGs. Only a large oil slick marked the spot where they went down. No bodies were ever recovered. Three of the menCarlos. Mario. and Armandowere US citizens. Pablo. a former refugee who had himself been saved by Brothers to the Rescue in 1992. was a permanent US resident. What happens when four American civilians are butchered in cold blood. over international waters. by the air force of a Third World dictatorship? What terrible retribution does the United States exact for a quadruple murder so barbaric and unprovoked?