Posted by
Michael on Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:35:36 PM
The brilliant people over at Hot Air have posted a video documenting in detail the establishment of Hezbollah cells within Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. Throughout are shown several Spanish websites preaching for jihad against American interests in the region, as well as many news sources documenting Hezbollah's role in drug smuggling in Latin America. (Despite the holier than thou talk, jihadists don't seem to have much guilt about using vice as a means for fundraising, as we've also seen with Taliban forces using opium as a moneymaker in Afghanistan.)
If you have any doubts, here is a story from China Daily about the partnership between Hugo Chavez and Hezbollah's monetary and weaponry providers in Iran:
The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading US
critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington,
with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez "a brother and trench mate."Chavez pledged that his country would "stay by Iran at any time and under any
condition."
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, said he saw in the Venezuelan
president a kindred spirit. "I feel I have met a brother and trench mate after
meeting Chavez," the state-run Iranian television quoted Ahmedinejad.