More Facts Uncovered in Chavez - Al Qaeda Collaboration

Militares Democraticos ^ | 1/5/03 | By Luis Garcia, in Miami

[shanec]

I spent a lot of time with Major Castillo last month at the Altamira Plaza in Caracas, along with the other top Venezuelan officers who have left Chavez recently. I found them to be men of integrity who are deeply concerned about the fate of their country under the Chavez regime and they have put their lives on the line to expose the abuses of it. They, IMO, need to be heard far & wide. (See my first posting on FR from down there here.)

More on why what happens in Venezuela should matter to us here in the USA, well beyond just stable oil supplies, is also here at these recent FR posts of articles direct from Chavez top military officers who have recently left him in protest of his actions/plans/goals. They know what's really going on, from the inside, and are now telling all...

9/11: Chavez financed Al Qaeda, details of $1M donation emerge

Terror Threat from Venezuela: Al Queda Involved

Chavez bio-weapons lab in Venezuela for Saddam and Castro

And, still more direct from a new english version of their own web site by clicking this banner below...

-Shane

[shanec]

ping...

[shanec]

pong...

[Dog Gone]

This Marxist is a clear and present danger to the hemisphere.

While I understand the damage to the constitutional process that would have resulted, I wish the coup plotters in April would have given him a lead injection.

[Carry_Okie]

I wish the coup plotters in April would have given him a lead injection.

The next one should be an enema.

IIRC, one of them stopped Chavez from committing suicide.

[Cicero]

Thank you, good post. There's no doubt that Chavez is a Communist tyrant, although fortunately he seems to be a singularly stupid and erratic one. But one shouldn't take too much comfort from that, since many of the worst tyrants in history have been weak, fearful, and stupid. If there's any way for the CIA to help Venezuelans to oust him, I hope they will do it.

On the other hand, Lula of Brazil is said to have split with Castro. I don't know if that's true or not. In any case, it's clear that Chavez must go.

[11B3]

Time for someone to give him that lead overdose, or a Tomahawk enema.

[shanec]

ding, dong

[Gritty]

Our Administration needs to put Chavez on The List!

[Dog Gone]

IIRC, one of them stopped Chavez from committing suicide.

Hey, I had forgotten that. You're right.

Man, what a lost opportunity.

[Dog Gone]

Chavez Sympathizers March to Protest Killings
Sun January 5, 2003 12:50 PM ET
By Patrick Markey

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Thousands of sympathizers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched in Caracas on Sunday to protest the fatal shooting of two men in clashes that occurred during a protracted opposition strike against the leftist leader.

Waving banners and demanding justice, pro-Chavez demonstrators mobbed a funeral procession for the victims as the vice president and other government officials helped carry a coffin draped in a Venezuelan national flag.

Government officials blamed police for the deaths on Friday in chaotic street clashes involving rival pro-Chavez and opposition protesters, troops and police. Opposition leaders blame militant Chavez supporters for opening fire.

"The function of the police is not to kill people, but to protect the lives of citizens," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel told reporters on Sunday.

Two police officers were also wounded on late on Saturday when Chavez sympathizers fired on them outside the funeral home where mourners were holding a mass for the two victims, police said. The metropolitan police is controlled by the Caracas mayor, a bitter political enemy of Chavez.

[demosthenes the elder]

what, the Predator AUAV hit-list?
I'd like that.

[ninenot]

a lead injection.

950 fps or 3000 fps???

[shanec]

Yes, it was Army Brigadier General Néstor González González, see him here, 13th down on that list of protesting Venezuelan officers there.

He related, with much regret because now his head is on the block for opposing Chavez, the following story to me in Caracas last month:

"On the eve of April 11 2002, when some of his closest supporters turned against him, Chavez took out his gun and put it in his mouth. I struggled with him, yelled "Hugo, don't do that", and finally managed to wrestle the gun away from him. Today, I regret that I did not let him pull the trigger."

-Shane

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Dog Gone]

What a shame. It already would have saved lives in Venezuela.

[shanec]

The following is the result of the above media interviews yesterday. -Shane

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Chavez Under Fire For Al Qaeda Financing

Chavez / Al Qaeda connection:
front page news in Venezuela

All over Venezuela, ordinary voters are outraged by the latest proof of terrorist connections between their country's ruler Hugo Chavez and Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden's global terrorist network.

Sunday, the nation awoke to find the scandal top news in all states.

"Financing of terrorists", screamed the huge headline of La Voz, from Miranda state. In Aragua state, El Siglo announced on its front page that "Chavez gave one million dollars to Al Qaeda". And in Carabobo state, Notitarde came out with an "Edicion Extraordinaria", a special edition, which was headlined: "Chavez gave 900 thousand dollars to Bin Laden's terrorist network". The paper referred to the $900,000 in cash for Al Qaeda and later mentioned the additional $100,000 in food and tents for the Taliban, for a total of one million in assistance. El Nacional, in Caracas, reported that the records of the investigation will be shared with the U.S. State Department in its fight against international terrorism and rogue states sponsoring terrorism.

Faced with the proof of his Al Qaeda financing, Hugo Chavez has so far maintained a complete silence. The "no comment" order extends to his entire inner circle: None of his other collaborators named in the Al Qaeda files have yet commented either. This curious silence follows the pattern of the 9/11 aftermath, when he vanished from sight for days and was the last Latin leader to make a statement.

But to the nation's press, the Chavez / Al Qaeda connection is front page news, and the embattled leader is drawing fire for not wanting to face his actions.

" - Zany dictator Hugo Chavez has really gone off the rails this time," said Caracas street vendor Felipe Lopez, 28, while studying the documentation published by dozens of the country's newspapers.

"Dictatorial thugs like Hugo Chavez are dangerous to his own people and to the rest of the world."

Desperate for change, voters have renewed their call for free and democratic elections. Hugo Chavez, showing his dictatorial streak, has publicly announced that he will not call elections anytime soon, that he will not finance such elections, and in the event that elections were to be held anyway, he will not abide by their outcome.

Soledad Bravo, a popular Venezuelan folk singer and former Chavez supporter, distanced herself from the strongman, and urged the world to act:

" - Freeing ourselves from Chavez is our duty to history."

[Dog Gone]

I'm glad to see the Venezuelan press is covering this.

[shanec]

This is very big stuff, IMO, and could be beginning of the end for Chavez if kept flamed up there and, especially, if it catches on in press here. Got more coming, too, from additional Chavez insiders to add fuel to the fire, some of it'll be "nitro"! Just got to time it right so those carrying the fuel don't get burned, too.

-Shane

[Defender2]

(Chavez)If you aid, support terrorism, than you're as guilty as the terrorists!!!! If this is True, You(Chavez) must cease to be on the world stage and be brought to Criminal Justice!!!!