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WikiLeaks Evidence: Russia Sponsoring Islamic Terror
New American ^ | December 12, 2010 | Christian Gomez

Posted on 12/12/2010 10:40:08 AM PST by lbryce

The release of over 250,000 diplomatic cables has revealed a lot about the intricacies of U.S. diplomacy. However, one aspect of the WikiLeaks release that has been much under the media's radar is what the leaked cables have said about Russia and its surrogate-state sponsorship of what would most accurately be described as an international terrorist network.

In a diplomatic cable dated August 6, 2008, regarding a meeting between U.S. and Russian experts on the export of Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) from Russia, the State Department expressed its concern about "Russian ammunition, sold to Venezuela ... found in possession of the FARC" Colombian terrorist group.

Four days later, in another cable, the State Department reiterated its concern regarding "recovered Russian-origin ammunition in Colombia, the ongoing Russian sale of advanced Igla-S MANPADS to Venezuela," which "have all reinforced growing concerns about the risk of increasing proliferation of arms to terrorist and criminal organizations in the region."

When "questions and comparisons were raised by the U.S. side about Russian ammunition, sold to Venezuela, and found in possession of the FARC," the cable states that the leader of the Russian delegation, a Col. Oleg Skabara, "first suggested that the ammunition did not come from Russia, but was probably a sale from 'unlicensed production,' a suggestion that it was manufactured in a third country without appropriate permits from Russia."

When the U.S. delegation did not buy into Skabara's explanation so easily, indicating "that the ammunition carried factory stamps, and that we provided this information," the Russians tried to brush off the accusation by asserting "that the meeting was to discuss MANPADS, not ammunition, and that these are different weapons and the approach, scale, and control applied to them are different."

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200808; 20080806; coldwar2; columbia; farc; igla; iglas; islamofascism; manpads; putin; russia; terrorism; venezuela; waronterror
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To: lbryce

Old news apparently.

It’s just reported that Russia provided Venezuela 1800 missiles.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/11/AR2010121102586.html


21 posted on 12/12/2010 11:27:11 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

This would be funny, if it wasn’t so outrageously STUPID!
We have to fight our own guns, after countries who have been our allies, just go ballistic and become our enemies. Now we will have to be concerned about our uranium being in a communist bomb...how lovely!


22 posted on 12/12/2010 11:27:38 AM PST by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: RaceBannon

wikileaks mirror site, regular site is down:

http://213.251.145.96/

Afganistan:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-afghanistan-data

Cablegate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/nov/29/wikileaks-cables-data


23 posted on 12/12/2010 11:28:16 AM PST by japaneseghost
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To: Carling

sic Our Congress better read the fine print, if Zero supports it.


24 posted on 12/12/2010 11:30:39 AM PST by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: japaneseghost

thanks!

the free torrent reader I downloaded didnt work with this, so, at least I got a place to start! :)


25 posted on 12/12/2010 11:52:18 AM PST by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: happygrl

Sorry. When I said that liberals were satisfied that “evil Nazi Serb” civilians were being bombed, frozen, and starved to death as we took out their power, bridges, and dams, I didn’t mean to suggest that they were really Nazis. Nazi is just the name that liberals use to demonize anyone whom they decide is politically incorrect, for whatever reason. Like you and me.

Clinton even bombed the Belgrade TV station, because it was broadcasting uncomfortable truths. And our leftist reporters couldn’t even be bothered to defend their fellow Serb news people, who had warmly welcomed them and offered them hospitality just the day before.


26 posted on 12/12/2010 12:00:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
CALVIN: You’re sure?
ADAM: Positive. The Soviet Union collapsed without a shot being fired. The Cold War is over.
CALVIN: What? Did the Politburo just one day say – “We give up?”
ADAM: That’s kind of how it was.
CALVIN: Uh-huh. My gosh, those Commies are brilliant! You’ve got to hand it to ‘em! “No, we didn’t drop any bombs! Oh yes, our evil empire has collapsed! Poor, poor us!” I bet they’ve even asked the West for aid! Right?!
ADAM: Uh, I think they have.
CALVIN: Hah!!! Those cagey rascals! Those sly dissemblers! They’ve finally pulled the wool over everybody’s eyes.
27 posted on 12/12/2010 12:48:27 PM PST by Stultis (Democrats. Still devoted to the three S's: Slavery, Segregation and Socialism.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Haha!

The State dept is owned by the saudis.

No one runs its here.

Koranimals only.

Kafirs need not apply.


28 posted on 12/12/2010 1:20:59 PM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: Benchim

Thank God for Wikileaks. The good far out weighs the bad
1.The Vatican stone walled investigation into pedophile priests in Ireland who had sexually abused over 350 children
2. Saudi Arabia is actively flowing money to Al Queada ,who killed 3000 of our people on 911 and kill our troops every day.
3. Hilliary ordered spying on UN diplomats and psycho analysis of the leader of Argentina.
Much more to come!!


Just wonder if the ones so quick to execute Assange...feel the same way about the hackers who uncovered all the fraudulent Global Warming data from the IPCC emails?

I guess maybe people are not so concerned about exposing terrorism, pedophilia, and pushing the Global Warming Hoax agenda


29 posted on 12/12/2010 1:27:03 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Whenever something is "Global"...it means its bad for America)
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To: lbryce

Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner!
We have much more to fear from Soviet Communism than any “New World Order”.


30 posted on 12/12/2010 1:31:46 PM PST by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: Cicero
Got it;-)

When a friend toured Europe several years ago, she asked if I wanted anything.

I replied, "just pray for the reconversion of Europeans to Christ each time you tour a Cathedral".

She reported later, that almost every cathedral she toured was treated more like a museum than a Church.

Except for the Serbians who were still devout Orthodox.

Perhaps that was an underlying motivation for their being targeted.

They don't fit the new meme of Eurabia.

31 posted on 12/12/2010 1:47:01 PM PST by happygrl
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To: lbryce

The text itself does not provide any evidence to support the claim in the title. S-300 sale to Iran has been canceled by Russia.


32 posted on 12/12/2010 3:38:26 PM PST by WalterKurtz
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To: shalom aleichem; Third Person

>and Osama Bin Laden was an operative of USA in Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets.

A myth. During the Soviet-Afghan War, Rep. COngressman Dana Rohbacker periodically visited the Muj. During one visit, he and his guides passed close to one of bin Laden’s camps. The Muj with him told him to keep quiet, because if bin Laden’s men found out he was American, they’d kill him. Also, Osama himself in a later interview with Robert Fisk admitted that he never received any American aid whatsoever.


33 posted on 12/12/2010 8:31:31 PM PST by Jacob Kell (Romneycare=Obamacare lite.)
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