Webloggin » Terror In Our Hemisphere

Taking a look at potential terrorism close to home, I find we have some real potential problems. We should be worried about areas of the Caribbean. “Al-Qaida is suspected of having set up a front in the Caribbean island state of Trinidad, and sympathetic jihadists have already launched a movement there to replace Trinidad’s Westernized government with Islamic law.” (more here, and more on concerns about terrorism in Somalia, South Africa here)

Venezuela is worrisome because it has become a “safe haven and transit of drugs, people and arms and the Venezuelan Government’s efforts to pursue and deny safe haven to these terrorists are, at best, anemic.” (U.S. State Department report ‘Venezuela: Terrorism Hub of South America?‘)

The Government of Venezuela has stated that it regards the U.S.-led war on terrorism as a ruse for U.S. imperial ambitions. It has refused to condemn narco-terrorist organizations based in Colombia, and has publicly championed the cause of terrorists in Iraq. Although it is unclear how they were obtained, some weapons seized from Colombian narco-terrorists have come from official Venezuelan stocks and facilities. And the Venezuelan Government has done little to improve the security of travel and identity documents it issues.

The systems and processes for issuing passports and national I.D. cards are corrupted on various levels with alien smuggling rings using ‘confederates in the issuing entities to make documents available in large numbers to their clients’. This means human smuggling is easy in Venezuela. They assist terrorists who come to this hemisphere to get documents (and weapons) and then assist them through other countries, into Mexico, and into the United States.

Ever wonder how those Iraqis who recently came across the Mexican border into the United States actually got into Mexico??? Venezuela has relations with State Sponsors of Terrorism like Iran, Syria, North Korea, (also Viet Nam and Cuba), and previously Saddam’s Iraq and Qadhafi’s Libya.