* Hakim Mamad Ali Diab Fattah : Venezuelan of Arab descent. He had been the subject of international surveillance because he had taken lessons at two New Jersey flight schools attended by Hani Hanjour, who crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI had arrested Fattah in the US after discovering that he also had talked about blowing up an airliner and had used forged identity documents. Information about him was requested from Venezuela's internal security service, Direccion de Inteligencia Seguridad y Prevencion (DISIP). But little was forthcoming other than psychiatric records showing that he was a diagnosed schizophrenic who had failed to attend therapy for more than a year. He was returned to Venezuela on March 8, 2002. - "Terror Threat from Venezuela: Al Queda Involved," by Martin Arostegui, Militares Democraticos, December 27, 2002
* Nasser Mohammed al-Din : A powerful entrepreneur and a close personal friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at whose home in Margarita the Venezuelan president stays on his frequent visits to the resort island, which is also a favored venue for his private meetings with Castro. Margarita Island appears to be the center of an extensive terrorist financial network stretching throughout the Caribbean to Panama and the Cayman Islands, where three Afghanis traveling on false Pakistani passports were caught entering from Cuba with $200,000 in cash in August 2001. According to British colonial authorities, efforts to launder the money through Cayman banks also involved a group of Arab businessmen. - "Terror Threat from Venezuela: Al Queda Involved," by Martin Arostegui, Militares Democraticos, December 27, 2002
* Ana Belinda Macias Arismendi, a member of FARC, carried a false Venezuelan identity document [No. V-12438823] when Ferreira was asked to help get her to Cuba.
* John Maisto : A former Clinton Administration official who is still on Condoleezza Rice’s NSC staff, has as his responsibility the oversight of "all of Latin America.” This is the same John Maisto who, according to syndicated columnist Robert Novak, was formerly Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Venzuela. At that time, says Novak, Maisto "privately advised Congress not to worry about accession of the leftist Hugo Chavez to that nation’s presidency.” Since taking over, Chavez has firmly allied himself and his nation with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Condoleezza Rice enjoys high confidence at the White House. Observers who respect her, but are nervous by the presence of Maisto on her staff, hope that she will not be listening to his reported effort to direct policy toward "normalization of relations with Cuba.” He told Congress a few years ago not to worry about Chavez, and Chavez now "provides a $2 billion petroleum subsidy to Fidel Castro and allies his country with countries like Iran, Iraq, and communist China,” according to Whittlesey.
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An interesting post at #33 concerning 911 terrorists and a Venezuelan passport : Squeeze Here