Posted on 03/27/2009 3:31:23 PM PDT by Cindy
http://covertradioshow.com
http://covertradioshow.com/podcast.cfm?pid=163
COVERT RADIO Daily Blast: March 27 "Today, Brett looks at the Afghan Plan and Hezbollah in Mexico."
BLOG:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/analysis_us_outlines.php
“Analysis: US outlines new Afghanistan strategy”
By BILL ROGGIO
March 27, 2009 4:10 PM
SNIPPET: “The long-awaited new US strategy for Afghanistan was released this morning. In a press conference, President Barack Obama outlined the US goals in the region and the plan to stabilize Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
The goal, Obama said, is “to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.”
To achieve this goal, Obama laid out seven major points: tackling the Taliban and al Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistan while promoting governance and democracy; a surge in military and civilian forces in Afghanistan; bolstering the Afghan security forces; reconciliation; Afghan governance; and international support.
These seven major points are outlined below, along with a brief analysis of the proscriptions and any associated problems.”
Oops, please accept my apologies...Hezbollah in Mexico did not get covered on the link I provided.
http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=hezbollah+%2B+mexico&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/
“EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah uses Mexican drug routes into U.S.
Works beside smuggler cartels to fund operations”
Sara A. Carter
Friday, March 27, 2009
EXCLUSIVE:
SNIPPET: “Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.”
stepping back in time...
http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41309
“Mexico Sentences Man Who Smuggled Hezbollah Sympathizers into U.S.
Mexico Sentences Migrant Smuggler to 60 years”
Monday, December 29, 2008
SNIPPET: “Mexico City - Mexican prosecutors say they won a 60-year prison term for a human smuggler who helped about 200 people sneak into the U.S., including Hezbollah supporters.
Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was arrested in 2002 and convicted on organized-crime and immigrant-smuggling charges.
Boughader, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, ran a cafe in the city of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, California.
Among those he smuggled were sympathizers of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group that U.S. authorities have labeled a terror organization.”
stepping back in time...
http://vitalperspective.typepad.com/vital_perspective_clarity/2006/10/mexican_us_agen.html
“Agents Investigate Group Operating in Mexico Suspected of Funding Hezbollah”
(October 12, 2006)
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http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/380751.html
“Investigan aquí célula financiera de Hezbolá
Personas y empresas estarían relacionadas con el grupo extremista”
Desconoce Presidencia investigación a célula de Hezbolá 09:14
PGR busca en México a presunta red de Hezbolá
Silvia Otero
El Universal
Jueves 12 de octubre de 2006
Thanks to a special emailer for this link:
BLOG:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/iran-setting-up-shop-south-of-the-border/
“Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border”
SNIPPET: “Obama’s overtures to Tehran have given Mexico the green light to start cozying up with the mullahs. (Watch an interview with Todd Bensman here.)”
March 27, 2009 - by Todd BensmanPage 1 of 2 Next ->
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SNIPPET: “It is often said in matters of love and real estate that timing is everything. Now, strange though the application may seem, the same cliche can be said about Iran’s steady march north through Latin America right up to the U.S. southern border.
While America’s political and diplomatic glitterati are riveted on Mexico’s civil drug war — and Mexico is appropriately busy managing its biggest existential peril since Pancho Villa — the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to slip into the country before anyone really notices.
Late last month, the mullahs sent emissaries to Mexico City to pitch vastly expanded trade ties of the sort that, at least in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, have given national security establishment types the hives.
According to a February 27 press release put out by Mexico’s department of foreign relations, Secretary Maria Lourdes Aranda Bezaury met with Tehran’s deputy foreign minister for the Americas, Ali Reza Salari. The Mexicans fielded an Iranian proposal to expand ties in the “political, economic, and cultural arenas,” the release stated.””
Video from link no. 7:
http://www.pjtv.com/video/National_Security_Review/Iran%27s_Push_Into_Nicaragua/1595/
“Iran’s Push Into Nicaragua”
(Added March 26, 2009)
Hat Tip: INTERNET-HAGANAH.COM
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001569.html
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BLOG:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/irans-push-into-nicaragua-why-is-no-one-concerned/
“Iran’s Push Into Nicaragua: Why Is No One Concerned?
Iranian “diplomats” in Nicaragua sure aren’t studying the banana industry. A PJM report from the ground.”
March 17, 2009 - by Todd BensmanPage 1 of 2 Next ->
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC06.php?CID=1257
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/03/hezbollah_narco-islamism.php
“Hezbollah: Narco-Islamism”
By Matthew Levitt
(March 23, 2009)
ADDING a thread link to post no. 7:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2216502/posts
“Iran Setting Up Shop South of the Border”
PAJAMAS MEDIA ^ | March 27, 2009 | by Todd Bensman
Posted on March 27, 2009 4:28:30 PM PDT by Cind
ADDING 1 thread link to post no. 2:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2216202/posts
“Obama Calls for New Strategy to ‘Dismantle’ Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan”
Fox News.com ^ | Friday, March 27, 2009 | Major Garrett
Posted on March 27, 2009 9:21:12 AM PDT by BornToBeAmerican
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3693129,00.html
“Report: Hizbullah, Mexican drug cartels working together”
SNIPPET: “American officials say ties between Shiite organization, Mexican drug lords for trafficking of drugs, money, people into US strengthening over recent year. One official voice concern that al-Qaeda may use same routes”
Ynet
Published: 03.27.09, 11:57 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “Ties between Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbullah organization and Mexican drug cartels have been strengthening over the past few years, the Washington Times reported Friday.
Hizbullah relies on “the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels,” said Michael Braun, former administrator and chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).”
stepping back in time...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3565332,00.html
“Report: Venezuela helping Hizbullah raise funds”
SNIPPET: “US Treasury Department accuses Caracas of sheltering members of Lebanese terror organization, helping group to launder money”
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 07.08.08, 07:53 / Israel News
WASHINGTON
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