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HAVANA — <\/span>Top officials with Cuba\u2019s Ministry of the Interior unveiled for the first time late Friday the items they said were aboard a Florida-flagged speedboat<\/a> that opened fire against troops in waters off the island\u2019s north coast this week, with soldiers responding and killing four suspects.<\/p>\n Officials also revealed to The Associated Press that authorities were able to establish that the 10 Cuban suspects left the U.S. in two boats, but one failed, so they transferred all the supplies to the remaining one and left the other adrift.<\/p>\n The government said the detained suspects revealed those details and stressed that they immediately contacted the U.S. Coast Guard<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the items Cuban officials said were aboard the boat: a dozen high-powered weapons, including one with a scope; a big cooler filled with more than 12,800 pieces of ammunition; 11 pistols; heavy-duty boots, helmets with cameras; and camouflage backpacks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were clearly able to assess that we were facing a terrorist action from a boat coming from the United States,\u201d 1st Col. Ivey Daniel Carballo of the Cuban Border Guard Troops told the AP.<\/p>\n According to Carballo, the 30-foot (nine meter) border patrol boat detected an intruder on Wednesday morning and approached to within about 600 feet (185 meters) to investigate, but it was met with high-caliber gunfire.<\/p>\n He said that three of the attackers were immediately killed and that a fourth was wounded and later died.<\/p>\n Caraballo said the speedboat was located about one mile (1.6 kilometers) northeast of Cayo Falcones off the island\u2019s north coast. The border guard commander was injured, he added.<\/p>\n Victor Eduardo \u00c1lvarez Valle, one of the heads of Criminal Investigation for State Security at the Ministry of the Interior, told the AP that authorities were surprised by the resistance they encountered.<\/p>\n \u201cWe didn\u2019t expect it, especially with that many people and weapons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe military equipment found on board has been identified by the assailants, including where and how they acquired it, and the training they received. They also revealed who financed it,\u201d \u00c1lvarez added.<\/p>\n He noted that officials detected 13 bullet holes on the border guard boat and 21 others on the suspect\u2019s vessel, \u201cmeaning that there was combat.\u201d<\/p>\n The Cuban government had reported Wednesday that a person had been captured on land, but \u00c1lvarez said that so far, there is no information that the suspects had any support network on the island.<\/p>\n Cuba\u2019s chief prosecutor of the directorate at the Attorney General\u2019s Office, Edward Robert Campbell, told the AP that the six arrested, all of Cuban origin, could face terrorism charges, which carries a possible sentence of 30 years in prison, life imprisonment or even the death penalty, although the latter has been on moratorium for more than a decade.<\/p>\n The Associated Press was given access to Cuban military officials and shown the items displayed at the headquarters of the former Cuban Institute of Radio and Television ahead of a program that showed them to the public for the first time.<\/p>\n U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> has said it was not a U.S. government operation and that the American government<\/a> was gathering its own information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n