Iranian-Sponsored Narco-Terrorism in Venezuela (soooo predictable that it's right on cue) [View all]

[Catherina]

Paul D. Shinkman is a national security reporter at U.S. News & World Report. This is a guy who as of 11 March 2013 hadn't "covered Venezuela for long" you really must wonder where he got his information and using Douglas Farah as a source, that Islamophobe formerly from UPI and the Washington Post, now Senior Fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center founded by that neocon Arthur Waldron who "has ties to numerous other think tanks, including the Center for Security Policy, the Project for the New American Century, the Jamestown Foundation, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute"? In other words, another scumbag tool for the Wolfowitz/Feith/Pearle school of neocons.

Oh my how desperate this meatless, contentless article is.

Iranian-Sponsored Narco-Terrorism in Venezuela: How Will Maduro Respond?

By Paul D. Shinkman
Apr 24, 2013

New Venezuelan president at a crossroads for burgeoning threat to U.S.


A Venezuelan National Guard soldier next to a cocaine processing laboratory near the Colombian border.

At a conference earlier this month, top U.S. military officers identified what they thought would be the top threats to the U.S. as it draws down from protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, was unequivocal about a largely unreported danger:

"Narco-terrorism just on our south border: [it is] yet to be seen just how that is going to play out in our own nation, but it is an issue and it is something that our nation is going to have to deal with."

This alliance with Iran uses established drug trade routes from countries in South and Central America to penetrate North American borders, all under a banner of mutual malevolence toward the U.S.

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"Each of the Bolivarian states has lifted visa requirements for Iranian citizens, thereby erasing any public record of the Iranian citizens that come and go to these countries," wrote Farah of countries such as Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama.

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Read more meatless, unsubstantiated crap here: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/24/iranian-sponsored-narco-terrorism-in-venezuela-how-will-maduro-respond