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Topic: Is Venezuela Harboring Hezbollah? |
Is Venezuela Harboring Hezbollah?
Real Clear World, by Simeon Tegel
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Posted By:Kevin6497, 1/10/2013 12:02:01 PM
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Is Venezuela providing operational support to Islamic terrorists? That deadly serious question is increasingly troubling foreign policy and security experts as the South American country and Iran - which funds Hezbollah - move ever closer. Despite deep cultural differences, a shared antagonism toward the US has drawn Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, into an unlikely political friendship in recent years.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/10/2013 1:17:44 PM (No. 9109197)
Hezbollah and other terrorist have been operating out of the Tri-Border area of South America ( Brazil/Argentina/Paraguay)since the late nineties. I would not be surprised to discover that the U.S. has hundreds if not thousands, of ´undocumented visitors´ with swarthy complexions and a mysterious combination of dialects.
Just sayin.....
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