Venezuela plans to buy large quantity of Russian weapons
SNIP: Iraq says 'impossible' explosives taken before regime fall>
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A top Iraqi science official said Wednesday it was impossible that 350 tons of high explosives could have been smuggled out of a military site south of Baghdad before the regime fell last year. The UN nuclear watchdog this week said about 350 tons of high explosives went missing from a weapons dump some time after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled in April 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion
Thanks for those links. From the second article:
"...Chavez has reduced Venezuela's military ties with Washington and forged a political alliance with communist Cuba, and says Venezuela needs to beef up security along its 1,400 mile (2,200 km) border with Colombia to stop a war there from spreading.
Colombian military commanders have accused Chavez of collaborating with Colombian Marxist rebels, a charge he has angrily denied..."
IMO, I don't think we can trust Chavez any further than we can throw him.
The article linked below mentions Chechen mujahadeen being involved in terrorist financing efforts in South America. What a tangled web...
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37468