US Accuses Venezuela Over Attack

BBC ^ | 4-7-2006

[piasa]

* Hakim Mamad Ali Diab Fattah : Venezuelan of Arab descent. He had been the subject of international surveillance because he had taken lessons at two New Jersey flight schools attended by Hani Hanjour, who crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
The FBI had arrested Fattah in the US after discovering that he also had talked about blowing up an airliner and had used forged identity documents. Information about him was requested from Venezuela's internal security service, Direccion de Inteligencia Seguridad y Prevencion (DISIP). But little was forthcoming other than psychiatric records showing that he was a diagnosed schizophrenic who had failed to attend therapy for more than a year. He was returned to Venezuela on March 8, 2002.
----- "Terror Threat from Venezuela: Al Queda Involved," by Martin Arostegui, Militares Democraticos, December 27, 2002

* Nasser Mohammed al-Din : A powerful entrepreneur and a close personal friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, at whose home in Margarita the Venezuelan president stays on his frequent visits to the resort island, which is also a favored venue for his private meetings with Castro.
Margarita Island appears to be the center of an extensive terrorist financial network stretching throughout the Caribbean to Panama and the Cayman Islands, where three Afghanis traveling on false Pakistani passports were caught entering from Cuba with $200,000 in cash in August 2001.
According to British colonial authorities, efforts to launder the money through Cayman banks also involved a group of Arab businessmen.
-------- "Terror Threat from Venezuela: Al Queda Involved," by Martin Arostegui, Militares Democraticos, December 27, 2002

[marron]

Chavez is president for life. He will not leave voluntarily.

If he confronts us too directly, he will find himself in the cell next to Noriega. If he doesn't, he will live a long life in Miraflores and die of old age there. If you like him, you are in luck. He will be president until your grandkids are grown.

Unless one of his henchmen take him out, which is entirely possible. But it won't be us.