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Sep 1, 2008, 12:29
“A Hidden Grain of Truth that Should Resonate”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In an interview that he gave just before his death, and which was published afterward, Mughniyah was quoted as saying the following:

“The Americans are making up stories about me and hold me responsible for a lot of attacks against them that happened around the world,” he told Ibrahim al-Amine of Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar. “Sometimes they think of me as if I have the key to the universe. It is difficult for them to understand that I am part of an institution that patiently plans and designs its moves.”

Yes, that is what is particularly difficult for U.S. policy makers to understand.

The several billion dollars of promised Iranian investment in Latin America, the careful cultivation of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the outreach to Bolivia, whose president, Evo Morales, arrived in Tehran yesterday, the opening of embassies across a region where it has no historical and few commercial ties, is not just a random desire by Iran to spend money.

There is a carefully thought-out plan, visible in the intelligence training Iran is offering, the banks opening in Venezuela to bypass international sanctions, and promises (often empty) of massive aid.

It is easier to personalize a problem and demonize an individual than it is to try to look for the broader, and more dangerous issues in terrorism and other security-related topics.”

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Venezuelan military build up
BBC Caribbean ^ | 11 Aug 2008 | Sir Ronald Sanders
Posted on August 12, 2008 8:33:43 PM PDT by davidlachnicht

The bizarre remarks and actions of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continue to concern anyone who is interested in the peace and security of the Caribbean region.

Chavez has recently purchased $4 billion worth of military equipment from Russia, including 24 Sukhoi combat aircraft with missiles, Main battle tanks, transport aircraft, air defence systems and Kalashnikov AK automatic assault rifles.

This latest purchase follows a 2005-2006 agreement with Russia to buy over 50 combat helicopters, 12 Tor-M1state-of-the-art defence anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic missile systems and 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles.

Having purchased all this heavy-duty weaponry, Chavez boasted that his air force could sink the US Fourth Fleet which was recently deployed in the Caribbean reportedly on drug-interdiction duty.

He added that the Sukhoi aircraft has a considerably longer range than the US Lockheed MartinF-16 Fighting Falcons.

And he went on: “Any gringo ship that sails into brown waters (Venezuelan waters) will itself turn brown and go to the bottom, because they’ll not get through.”

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Venezuela, Iran to loan Bolivia 225 mln dlrs for cement firm: official
Yahoo/AFP ^ | Aug 9, 2008
Posted on August 9, 2008 8:06:49 PM PDT by nuconvert

Venezuela, Iran to loan Bolivia 225 mln dlrs for cement firm: official

LA PAZ (AFP) - Venezuela and Iran are to loan Bolivia 225 million dollars to create a state cement company for the construction of roads and houses, the deputy minister for small and medium business, Eduardo Peinado, said Saturday.

The deal was made between Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan ambassador Julio Montes Prado and an Iranian business official Hojjatollah Soltani, he said.

Bolivia, South America’s poorest nation, has formed strong ties with Venezuela under Morales.

The Bolivian leader has modelled socialist reforms in his country’s after those of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,

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