Posted on 03/04/2008 9:13:10 PM PST by Kaslin
Terrorism: Did Hugo Chavez hand terrorists access to Venezuela's huge state oil earnings? A FARC computer captured by Colombian forces shows just that — and it amounts to state support of terror.
Turns out the FARC had a friend called "Angel" who was none other than Chavez, the oil-rich Venezuelan dictator whose ties to the FARC go back at least 15 years. The new revelations showed that he was using state oil company cash to finance terrorists.
Last December, Chavez, using the pretense of mediating a hostage release with FARC operative Ivan Marquez, secretly organized a diversion of $300 million in Venezuelan state oil earnings to the FARC.
The FARC has waged a war of atrocities against Colombia since 1966, killing, maiming and displacing tens of thousands. It rivals al-Qaida in depravity, and its atrocities put it on every internationally recognized list of global terror groups.
Colombia's high commissioner for peace, Luis Restrepo, reported that Marquez said Chavez would hand FARC a "stake in oil companies" to funnel $300 million in financial support. "We already have the first 50 million and he has a schedule to complete 200 during the year," Marquez wrote. "The friend suggested working the package through the black market, to avoid problems."
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Columbia has every justification it needs to launch a war with Venezuela. This finding about Chavez and the terrorists is a smoking gun.
Bump.
where’s Joe Kennedy? doesn’t he want to see what all those ‘friends from venezuela” are doing with all that money?
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