Yup. Here’s more:
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The Link between Iran and Venezuela: A Crisis in the Making?
by Mr. Robert M. Morgenthau
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=343289&CategoryId=10718
http://www.gfintegrity.org/content/view/257/74/
Radicalism South of the Border
Jon B. Perdue
[Fall/Winter 2010 - Number 19]
The point at which the United States’ southern border changes from a political issue to a security issue has been reached...
Since the 1980s, the terrorist group Hezbollah has been recruiting and raising ...
The Miami Herald reported on Tarek El Aissami as far back as 2003–a young Chavez confidante who serves as both Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice. El Aissami, age 34, was previously a radical student leader at the Universidad de los Andes, where, during his tenure as student body president, “supporters are alleged to have consolidated their control of the Domingo Salazar student dormitories and turned them into a haven for armed political and criminal groups.”
The Miami Herald article about El Aissami noted that a report done by Oswaldo Alcala, the vice-rector of academic affairs at the university, stated that “of 1,122 people living in the eight residences, only 387 are active students and more than 600 have no university connections.” In other words, radical groups with strong connections to both Marxist terrorists as well as Hezbollah and the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath Parties had taken over the university’s dormitories.
http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2010/19/perdue.php
If memory serves, we buy a fair amount of oil from Venezuela, don’t we? CITGO is a V operation gas co. 3 of them closed in this area a few years back, and DISH TV has taken over the storefront portion of the stations.
That article/speech should be a clarion call. I’m not in that loop, so maybe it is. I suspect otherwise, at DHS&Co.