I always wondered why at the INA, the Iraqi news agency, Saddam or the Iraqi government congratulated Chavez all the time, and backed him.
Communist Regimes and Terrorist groups and Islamic Terrorist groups have been working hand in glove for the past thirty years at least. They train at each other’s camps and share information, cash and weapons. People get stuck on the fact that one is "religious" and the other is not and can't see that they have a common goal; the destruction of the West.
When the USSR fell they all lost a major source of funding and so things became quiet for a bit. Now they are back. I hate fighting the same war more then once!