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"Iranian leader calls Chavez a 'trench mate'"
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/29/06 | Nasser Karimi - ap
Posted on 07/29/2006 10:36:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TEHRAN, Iran - The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading U.S. critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington, with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez "a brother and trench mate."
As Chavez arrived for a two-day visit. Iran faced renewed international criticism for its nuclear program and for backing Hezbollah guerrillas in its war with Israel.
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council on Friday reached a deal on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions. Iranian state radio said Saturday the government would reject the proposed resolution.
Chavez pledged that his country would "stay by Iran at any time and under any condition."
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, said he saw in the Venezuelan president a kindred spirit. "I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after meeting Chavez," the state-run Iranian television quoted Ahmedinejad.
Chavez, who peppers his speeches with mentions of assassination plots and purported U.S. efforts to oust him, said he admired the Iranian president for "his wisdom and strength."
He invited Iranian oil companies to invest in Venezuela. Venezuelan state TV also reported that the countries are considering having Iran participate in a natural gas project off the Venezuelan coast. The two nations are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries — Iran is the world's No. 2 oil exporter and Venezuela No. 5.
"We are with you and with Iran forever. As long as we remain united we will be able to defeat (U.S.) imperialism, but if we are divided they will push us aside," Chavez said.
Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has emerged as one of Latin America's most outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy. He takes his message against what he calls President Bush's "imperialist" government everywhere he goes.
During his trip, Chavez is to meet Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian state television said."
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Tetovo Mystery Slasher on Islamist Payroll
Balkanalysis.com ^ | 07/29/2006 | Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief
Posted on 07/30/2006 3:33:05 AM PDT by tgambill
(Balkanalysis.com Security & Intelligence Brief 9) The knife-wielding attacker who terrorized young Macedonian women in the Albanian-majority city of Tetovo during June is not the deranged lunatic as some of the media has portrayed him to be, says a high security services source in Skopje. According to this source, the attacker (allegedly, a young Albanian male from Tetovo) is a known Wahhabi sympathizer. Islamist groups in Tetovo and Skopje with financial and ideological links to Saudi Arabia reportedly paid the man to prowl the streets by night and terrorize young women wearing Western attire not deemed to be sufficiently modest for their strict interpretation of Islam. Skopje newspaper Vreme, summing up the story on July 3, noted that three attacks had occurred, after which six different men had been arrested – and released – without the real attacker ever having been found. The paper compared the palpable panic being felt in Tetovo with a similar occurrence in Veles in 2003, when a knife-wielding assailant struck fear in the hearts of local residents. However, that individual was finally caught. The infamous concept of a self-appointed “Sharia police” known in places like Iran, Pakistan and now Iraq has never before been seen in Macedonia. While the attacker has been portrayed as mentally unstable and prone to violence, our source says, “that is just the image. He is not crazy. The brothers [i.e., the Islamists] are paying him to do these attacks- and some of the police may be protecting him, too.”
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