Terrorists active in U.S. 'backyard': Latin America hotbed for both al-Qaida, Hezbollah

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, May 7, 2002 | By Toby Westerman

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Quote of the Day by Miss Marple 5/2/03

[JohnHuang2]

[bybybill]

Columbia is a big problem and we are so hung up with Israel, nobody is looking

[11B3]

Why not a little "rehearsal" for Iraq in Cuba? Logistics are simple by comparison, and new weapons could be tested. World opinion? Who cares. What's the UN going to do? If they scream too loudly, kick 'em the hell out. We need a koffi break anyway.

[JohnHuang2]

We need a koffi break anyway.

hehehe...well said, friend.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Fidel, Saddam and Hugo --An improbable but growing friendship of three military revolutionaries

Fidel Castro - Cuba

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A Terrorist Regime Waits in the Wings***The Taliban regime is gone, but a new one soon may emerge - not in far-off Afghanistan, but in Colombia, a country nearly twice the size and on the front door of the United States. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), flush with a fortune in drug money and rested after three years of peace talks, is fighting a fierce battle against Colombia's democratic government and threatens to install its own totalitarian, anti-Western regime. If it succeeds, analysts say, the Marxist-Leninist FARC, which is on the State Department's list of terrorist groups, would become the world's newest outlaw regime and even more of a haven for terrorists and drug traffickers.

A Rand Corp. report prepared last summer for the Pentagon calls the Colombian crisis "the most serious security challenge in the Western Hemisphere since the Central American wars of the 1980s." Will the United States help the Colombians save their democratic republic and destroy the narcoterrorist FARC? Or will it continue to keep its hands in its pockets and deny Colombia the intelligence, equipment and training needed to defeat the guerrillas on its own - only to have to send U.S. forces to fight another terrorist regime in the future?***

[FreedomPoster]

Time for some CIA black ops in Latin American against any Islamist imports. Oops! I forgot! The CIA is apparently incapable of this sort of thing after 25 years of gutting, first by the Church Committee, then 8 years of Clinton.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

The Web of Terror

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Good morning, CW.

Will the United States help the Colombians save their democratic republic and destroy the narcoterrorist FARC?

I don't see any solution to this problems. As long as the U.S. continues to have such a voracious appetite for drugs, the demand will continue.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

This is simple. Legalize the drugs and the FARC has no more money.

This is not simple. Visit Holland and see what drugs have done to the social framework of that country and all the creepy crawlly things that now occupy that country. And years ago it use to be a spotless country. It is totally filthy now. Legalizing drugs makes everything worse. One wouldn’t want ones children running around the streets in such an atmosphere because one would not be able to shield them from the horrors of it. The only things left to do would be to pack it in and leave to a healthier climate (country).

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

problems = problem

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Good post, John. In the future, these terrorists are going to become a huge problem for Panama. They have already spilled into the eastern part of Panama for their R and Rs, stealing and murdering the inhabitants as they go. Meanwhile, there is good reason to believe that the head of the defense force in Panama is gunrunning to these same groups in Colombia who in turn use these weapons against his own Panamanian forces who are trying to keep these terrorists out of El Darien province. Sick, isn’t it?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Click on the Framboyán.

[Mamzelle]

WF Buckley also supports the legalization of drugs. I have to note that there are some well-reasoned arguments for the legalization, but so many of the prospects of post-legalization are daunting. Who will dispense these drugs, and where? Liquor stores? Perhaps the funds that are gained by taxing dope could also go to the rehab to try to get people unhooked? Alcohol abuse costs us plenty already...probably a lot more than tobacco. There are many new problems which would be created. How to balance?

But it can't be escaped that legalization would do what our military efforts cannot.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

You offer a strong argument. In a few cases, and I mean very few, I am one of those people that won't leap into waterhole unless I can see the bottom, or someone has jumped in before me. – My mother didn’t raise stupid kids : ) -- And in this case, I can't see the bottom. Anyway, to repeat, you offer a good argument.