HOT SCOOP ON CHAVEZ BUDDY IN MASS:Chavez stirs Cape political waters

Chavez stirs Cape political waters By DAVID SCHOETZ STAFF WRITER Of the 435 members of Congress, the Cape's representative is known for having one of the closest relationships with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - for better or worse.

As critics took turns yesterday ripping Chavez for calling President George W. Bush ''the devil'' on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., a self-described friend of the outspoken leftist South American leader, joined the chorus.

''It was entirely unacceptable,'' Delahunt said. ''This would have been an opportunity to begin to repair the relationship between the countries and instead he took a different tack.''

Former Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy, who now runs an organization,
Citizens Energy, http://www.citizensenergy.com/

dedicated to delivering home heating oil to the poor, was supposed to attend Thursday's event in Harlem, but cancelled on Wednesday afternoon.

Kennedy spokesman Brian O'Connor insisted that Chavez's comments at the General Assembly had nothing to do with the decision to skip the event, and that family obligations prevented him from being there.

Under the terms of agreement between Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corporation and Citizens Energy,
http://www.citgo.com/CommunityInvolvement/HeatingOil.jsp

between Nov. 1, 2006, and Feb. 28, 2007, customers with qualifying incomes in the Northeast will pay 60 percent of the discounted price for up to 200 gallons of heating oil. Citizens Energy will pay the other 40 percent.Venezuela is the world's eighth largest net exporter of oil, much of which ends up in U.S. automobiles and homes. Rangel said given the amount of oil the U.S. buys from Venezuela, he sees "no reason why we should not be appreciative in accepting the generosity of the Venezuelan government."

"I am surprised that American oil companies have not stepped up to provide that kind of assistance to the poor. Venezuela's generosity to the poor, however, should not be interpreted as license to attack President Bush," he said.

Chavez buddy is two local politicians, Massachusetts Congressman Delahunt, and New Haven, Ct, Mayor and Govvernor candidate Destefano

It is well known that the nation of Venezuela has become a political enemy of the United States. During the last winter, Rep Delahunt openly bartered with the leader of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez to have oil shipped directly to the people of Massachusetts at a cheaper rate than oil normally sold on the market.

Below is an article which outlines the details of Congressman Delahunt’s actions in this oil deal:

http://pmbcomments.blogspot.com/2005/11/nov-2205-on-scheme-to-hoodwink.html

The Boston Globe

Thousands in Mass. to get cheaper oil
Delahunt, Chávez help broker deal

By Michael Levenson and Susan Milligan, Globe
Correspondent and Globe Staff November 20, 2005

A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil to local charities and 45,000 low-income families in Massachusetts next month under a deal arranged by US Representative William D. Delahunt, a local nonprofit energy corporation, and Venezuela's president, White House critic Hugo Chávez.

Mayor Destefano also got this oil from the terrorist supporter, Chavez!!

Instead of supporting oil companies in the United States, he went to Chavez for oil for Massachusetts residents, thereby using tax dollars to enrich an self-declared enemy of the United States, and offering that enemy an opportunity to propagandize against the United States..
First, keep in mind that Chavez in Venezuela is openly supporting Hezbollah and has had several meetings with CAIR representatives and extremist Muslim Imams, as well as with the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

HTTP://THECITYTROLL.BLOGSPOT.COM/2005/11/CONGRESSMAN-DELAHUNT-OF-MA-NEEDS-TO-BE.HTML

Why is this Congressman making DEALS with a self proclaimed ENEMY of the United States? This represntative of our government is doing propaganda and PR work for a man who has declared himself as our enemy. If the Congressman wants to help the people of his district with fuel oil prices he should work on waiving the Government taxes on fuel oil rather than allowing himself to be exploited by our enemies.

And get this:

Friday, September 01, 2006
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/hezbollah-is-working-openly-in.html
Hezbollah Is Working Openly in Venezuela!!
Holy Terror! They even have a song! HERE
Unlike Argentina, these Hezbollah heads are taking things to a whole new level!

From the Spanish Hezbollah Venezuela website:

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Gustavo Coronel at Venezuela Today has proof that Hezbollah is working openly with the tribe of the Wayuu on the Venezuelan side of the Guajira Peninsula:
They are indoctrinating the members of this tribe, to convert them into Islamic fanatics in charge of disseminating the terrorist message that has already created chaos, death and misery in the Middle East.

The Hezbollah group invading Venezuela is doing its work openly in the Venezuelan side of the Guajira Peninsula. They are disseminating, via Internet, a strategy "to change Venezuela," including:

* Total destruction "of the sex industry" (whatever that means),

* Attacking the upper classes, "who are the most corrupt," all white-collar criminals and continuing the cleaning downwards,

* Attacking corruption in government (not such a bad idea) and in the masses, both civilians and military,

* Attacking false idols and satanic cults, as defined by them.
Read the whole thing at Venezuela Today!

Knowing the connection between Delahunt and Hugo Chavez from Venezuela, and now the Islamic connections between Venezuela and Islamic terror groups, just how does Delahunt rate according to the most national American based Islamic Group, CAIR? (Council on Islamic Relations)

http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BC042391
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2004 Representative Delahunt supported the interests of the National Council of La Raza 100 percent in 2004.
2005 Representative Delahunt supported the interests of the Council on American-Islamic Relations 100 percent in 2005.

http://venezuelatoday.net/gustavo-coronel/hizbula-hezbollah-hizbullah+venezuela+hugo-chavez.html

The Hezbollah Venezuelan Metastasis
By Gustavo Coronel
September 4, 2006

After writing a book that displeased the Islamic fanatics the British novelist Salman Rushdie was sentenced to death in 1989 by Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For nine years Rushdie had to live in hiding until the new spiritual leader of Iran decided, in 1998, to lift his death sentence and cancel the prize on his head.

Hezbollah is a religious group created, not surprisingly, under the promotion of Ayatollah Khomeini, the same fanatic leader who condemned Rushdie to death. Since its creation the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has financed it. The group took roots in Lebanon during the 1980's, as a reaction against the Israeli invasion of that country in 1982, developing political and military branches in addition to its religious objectives. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon had followed the murder of 34 hostages taken by PLO terrorists based in that country and the attempted assassination of the Israeli Ambassador in London by a terrorist group led by the now deceased Abu Nidal.

As a religious group Hezbollah advocates the creation of Islamic republics, a theocratic form of government in which national, civil laws are subordinated to Islamic law. There are four countries defined today as Islamic republics: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Mauritania. Hezbollah calls for an Islamic revolution, the eradication of Western values and the elimination of Israel from the face of the earth. In the social sphere Hezbollah accepts an increasing role for women but treat homosexuality as a crime.

The group promotes a Mullahcracy (Wilayat). At first Hezbollah tried to impose such a system in Lebanon but they failed. The country was already too modern for that.
Being the advocates of an Islamic theocratic-military type of government, why should Hezbollah extend its tentacles into countries that possess a totally different cultural and religious environment? They have emerged in Argentina, in the area between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, in Ecuador, in Panama and, more recently, in Venezuela. Published reports ("Radical Islam in Latin America," by Chris Zambelis, in Global Terrorism Analysis, Volume 3, #23, December 2, 2005 and "Hezbollah: A Case Study of Global Reach," a lecture by Matthew Levitt at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, September 8, 2003) suggest that they have been behind terrorist acts in Argentina and have actively promoted the infiltration of Islamic fanatics into the U.S. Martin Arostegui, a free-lance writer, reported in 2002 that two Lebanese residents of Margarita Island, in Venezuela, traveled to Lebanon that year with $400,000 for Hezbollah. Arostegui gives both their names and identity card numbers, as well as the name of the bank where they withdrew the money ("Chávez Plans for Terrorist Regime," Insight Magazine, December 24, 2002).

Barbara Newman, interviewed on NRO, National Review Online, in March 2005, affirmed that Hezbollah members were entering the U.S. illegally, with phony papers that could be bought for $300 in Margarita Island, Venezuela. The island of Margarita has been, for many years, a place with an important Lebanese community. Much of this community is peaceful and hard working but, apparently, some members have been persuaded to become activists for Hezbollah.

More recently Hezbollah has been reported active in the Venezuelan side of the Guajira Peninsula. They have a website full of photographs, news and candid evidence of their activities. This metastasis has had a rather unusual development. It started rather innocently about six years ago, in 1999, as a Wayuu community project for micro farming, in an area Northwest of Maracaibo. The leader of the small group was a member of the tribe called Teodoro Rafael Darnott (identity cards V-5558381 and V-2794517), a man apparently full of good intentions, although not allergic to making a buck or two while promoting the agricultural venture. It seems that the project failed to catch enough attention from the authorities (there is nothing that moves in Venezuela, unless supported by municipal, state or national authorities). In 2001, therefore, Teodoro Darnott made an opportunistic political move: he joined Chávez's political party, MVR (Movimiento Quinta República). He was given a letter signed by one of the regional leaders of the party, describing him as a national authority (this type of letter abounds in Venezuela, where everybody identified with the regime is described as "important"). Still, the project, now called by Teodoro Mi Pequeño País (my little country), failed to make the desired headway. Therefore, he changed the name of the group to "Jehovah Nisi," a name with evangelical overtones and began to call himself Commander Teodoro.
It is not clear when Commander Teodoro decided to switch, once more, philosophical preferences, to become a follower of Hezbollah. The little information I have on him suggests that he is a very uncultured person, certainly not an expert on the Islamic religion or ways of life. At some point in time the real Islamic fanatics probably contacted him. They saw in Teodoro an ambitious man, looking for a way to make some money, with a group already formed and a certain capacity of leadership over the group, all members of his Wayuu tribe. And presto, Hezbollah Guajira was born. Teodoro appears as the visible head but he must be coached from the sidelines, effectively controlled by the professionals.

What is the short-term objective of Hezbollah Venezuela? I surmise that they are not interested in a violent stage, although they claim (a bluff, since they openly say it) to be considering a terrorist act "of low intensity," to make themselves known. The main objective of Hezbollah in Venezuela is, most probably, to make a psychological impact, to let the world know they are there. Their website is designed for that. They are eager for attention. So far, they seem limited to holding rather "incestuous" meetings among the members of the tribe, to talk about exotic religious concepts that probably do not hold much appeal to them, and to wearing Islamic attire in Venezuelan territory, a cultural statement probably mostly designed to counterbalance Western culture. What makes them worthy of attention is the timing of their activities. They have become visible at a moment in which the strange liaison between Hugo Chávez and Ahmadinejad, that love story between fanatics, has become an item of international interest. Now, it seems, the liaison between Venezuela and Iran might not be limited to oil projects, or to a tractor factory or to the production of bicycles, but also to finding common grounds for the creation of a Bolivarian Islamic Republic. Can you imagine?

Reality is stranger than fiction. Hugo Chávez, a modest son of Barinas, a poor state in rural Venezuela, has emerged from his bucolic environment to become an Arab idol and a Persian icon, right up there with Ernesto "Che" Guevara in the posters that adorn the streets of Tehran.
Is Chávez a new version of the Mahdi, after Laurence Olivier's portrayal in Khartoum? The Hezbollah metastasis that has appeared in the Guajira Peninsula reinforces his possibilities. That group walks a thin line between ridicule and the dangerous but it should be closely monitored and, sooner than later, dissolved.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2006-07/30/content_652883.htm

Iran leader: Chavez a trench mate
(AP)
Updated: 2006-07-30 11:14
The presidents of Iran and Venezuela, leading US critics, pledged Saturday to support one another in disputes with Washington, with the Iranian calling Hugo Chavez "a brother and trench mate."

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