Posted on 09/13/2009 9:36:34 PM PDT by RobinMasters
The government of Andorra has frozen “billions of dollars” in bank accounts linked to Iran, Venezuela, and a variety of terrorist groups, according to the daily Diairi d’Andorra, which publishes in Catalan.
The Andorran move, announced on Thursday, was carried out in conjunction with a top secret U.S. Treasury investigation in Miami involving money laundered through Venezuelan banks that was transferred to corresponding banks in the United States.
From Miami, the funds were then wired to accounts in Andorra that were controlled by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, members of his family and his regime. But the funds were also used by terrorist groups including Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida, and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), according to Diairi d’Andorra, which quoted unnamed Andorran government officials.
Treasury’s move into the tiny principality nestled in the eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France is just the latest move in an international effort to crack down on Iranian money-laundering, with the goal of shutting Iran out of international financial markets.
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Ping.
Our financial reach is still global, Obama is working on making the Globe reach into our finances, though.
All Your Banks are Belong To Us.
... TM'ers, too.
Thanks for the ping, Lucy. I don’t think this is a “may face” situation though. Venezuela and Russia have been moving things into position for something of this nature for months now...
I don’t think enough people realize that behind all these threats (NK, Iran, Venezuela, and on and on) lurks an enemy we are VERY familiar with — RUSSIA!
The ‘cold war’ may have ended, but the communists didn’t stop their machinations for world-dominance. They are in a better position now than ever before to exert their influence on the world — especially with a “fellow traveler” in the White House now.
I strongly believe we’ll get nukes from
—Venezuela,
—Cuba
—subs off our coasts . . . ‘out of the blue’
though well known and scheduled ahead of time by the traitorous globalist oligarchy on our shores.
scary
Your comments are spot on.
Chavez with a core group of South and Central American Countries along with Russia, Iran, Cuba, etc. with
the ultimate weapons, Hamas training camps, along with oil
is the time bomb ready to go off just south of the U.S.
There are many posters on FR who think if we just
mind our business while getting worked up over straw man issues, this is the answer.
These are the same type of people who were lulled by the
likes of Neville Chamberlin in the 1930s
Russia isn’t conducting all of those military exercises and selling all of those arms to Venezuela for nothing. And 0bama isn’t supporting Chavez’ attempt to install a puppet dictator in Honduras for nothing either. We’re going to get hit big and this time the President will be in on it.
Bump Dat...
*We’re going to get hit big and this time the President will be in on it.*
There are many who helped facilitate Obama’s victory to become president by sitting at home election day or voting third party.
Yeah yeah, blah blah blah...
“There are many who helped facilitate Obama’s victory to become president by sitting at home election day or voting third party.”
There are many others who helped facilitate The Kenyan’s victory by supporting the candidacy of RINO McCain.
Very interesting indeed. If we’d just let them blow Hugo’s brains out on the tarmac a few years ago, the US would be a lot safer now. Bush did try to do the right thing (support the Venezuelans in getting rid of Hugo), but the leftists in the State Dept and Congress ran forward and defended their boy immediately and Bush was afraid and unable to do much of anything to him after that. The political cost was just too high.
And now all of our enemies are moving their weapons into place in VZ.
Great cartoon! However, I’m not sure that Obama is just an immature twit; I think he knows full well what Hugo’s objective is, and I think he sympathizes with it.
I think you’re right about Russia lurking behind this, but only to a certain extent. Russia and Iran have been enemies in the past, but have made alliances of convenience because they agree fully on one thing: they hate the US and want to bring us down.
Marxism and Radical Islam have a peculiar love-hate relationship, and Islam, which is very collectivist and statist in its world view, can exist in a Marxist society without any problem. This is why one sees so many alliances between the left and Islam. But I think that at some point, Iran and Russia are going to begin to fight among themselves for dominance for their particular projects.
Russia is not classically Marxist anymore, in the sense of having collective farms, etc., and is moving more towards a fascist model, where there is a fiction of private ownership but the state controls everything and intervenes in every aspect of the lives of the citizens. Putin would no doubt like to see Russia impose this system worldwide, subject to governance by Russia.
It’s more dangerous in the case of Russia, because while Putin has all the makings of a dictator, he is not a caudillo like Hugo, meaning that the Russian project is not personally his alone and linked to his continued existence as the head of Russia. If something happened to Hugo, the Venezuelans would probably dismantle his crackpot Marxist/fascist society, but if something happened to Putin, I think that the Russians would just find another person to fill his shoes, while the project would remain the same.
And I think that’s true of Iran, too; Ahmadinejad is a dictator, but the project of nutty Islamicism is not dependent on him alone. We have rather blithely ignored the fact that Iran does believe it is capable of world domination and in fact intends to seek it.
So I think these countries have a rather touch and go relationship, one that at the moment happens to bring them together in a common objective. But at some point in the future, will their interests diverge?
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