I had personally interviewed Major Castillo extensively, amongst other Venezuela officers, about this and numerous other topics when down there at the Altamira Plaza in Caracas earlier this month. These military men, IMO, are acting out of the highest integrity and concern for the fate of their country and need to be heard. These 30 Generals and other high-ranking officers know what's really going on there in Chavez's regime with most of them having left him in only the last 60 days. They also have over 18,000 other troops still within Chavez's military who are daily feeding them additional intel while awaiting their orders. See all these brave officers, risking their lives, who are together publicly and daily condemning the Chavez regime here. Click the link "Resisters" in the upper left corner for their photos and comments.
-Shane
Chavez definitely has to go.
-The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)--
Castro, the Carribean, and Terrorism
Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II
The Poor-Boy Nuke-- Bioterrorism***
-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--
Richard W.
Come focus on this content, Einstein.
Another thing, though, the Communists seem linked to Alqaida. So Chavez support to Alqaida seems possible. It is an attempted power grab by the have-nots. Same old story. The link between Alqaida and WMD seems speculative, and there is a lot of speculation.
A good example of this was Operation Urgent Fury, ostensibly a mission to rescue American medical students from the island of Grenada. In fact, the primary objective of Urgent Fury was to secure several ballistic missile silos that were being built there by both Cubans and Russians, as well as taking control of a strategic 10,000-foot-long runway.
Why keep such a thing secret? Because managing public opinion in such cases is much harder than spinning a cover story. Particularly, the disposition of the Cuban and Russian prisoners would have been much more complicated if it were done publicly. A lesson of the Cold War.
In this case, I imagine the Cuban bio-lab (if it does, indeed, exist) will soon be receiving a late-night visit from Delta Force.
His playmates are our enemies.
Castro, Qadafy, Saddam, Khomeini, Jiang Zemin.
China is in Cuba:
China Reform Monitor No. 449, May 23, 2002
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, D.C.
May 12
China has replaced Russia as Fidel Castro's main partner for electronic espionage and other activities directed against the United States in the Western hemisphere, NewsMax.Com reports in an article that first appeared in the April 2002 American Legion Magazine. Until recently, Russia paid Castro more than $200 million annually in much-needed hard currency for use of its massive electronic spy station at Lourdes. In a surprise move, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly withdrew his support and 1,500 advisers from Cuba in the wake of the September 11th attacks on Washington and New York. Now China, which had been building its own spy stations in Cuba, has supplanted the Russians as Castro's primary electronic espionage partner. Beijing has built a sophisticated new signals intelligence complex in Bejucal, Cuba, operating under the cover of Radio China.
In addition to being used for espionage, these installations are reportedly part of a robust cyber-warfare capability Castro is developing. The FCC has stated they are capable of interfering with U.S. communications and air traffic control. In one incident originating in Cuba, the report adds, U.S. officials claim that Chinese operatives sent a message to New York air traffic control replicating U.S. military fight codes and falsely identifying themselves as U.S. military transport planes - a chilling indication of things to come.
As for why "the media" does not accurately report the tyrant Chavez opposed by valiant Venezuelans--
"The media" are suck-ups to Castro, viz. Dan Rather and Bahbah Wahwah in their nauseating obeisance.
The Great Nobel Pizza Prize Winner Jimmah Peanut got chapped lips from kissing El Chancre Grande's behind.
There is organized danger in our hemisphere. The Demrats have embraced it, and through the Boland Amendment and like actions has allowed it to fester.
The handing off of our Canal to the ChiComs is of particular note.
In the inverted worldview of the leftist propaganda machine, Castro and Chavez are good; while their opposition is demonized--viz. the Elian debacle.
Chavez has a lead deficiency which could be cured with a single well-placed shot.
Good hunting.
Five chemical- and biological-weapons plants operate throughout the island, according to documents smuggled out of Cuba and made available to Insight by Alvaro Prendes, a former Cuban air force colonel who now is the Miami-based spokesman for the Union of Liberated Soldiers and Officers, a clandestine pro-democracy movement within Cuba's security services. The credibility of the smuggled documents is enhanced by a recent classified Pentagon analysis. Also, these facilities have not been on the itinerary of such visiting dignitaries as retired Marine Gen. John Sheehan, the recently passed-over candidate for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who enthusiastically embraced normalizing relations with Havana following a recent round of junketing with Castro.
Pentagon, State Department and congressional sources also point to continuing Cuban support for international terrorism and drug trafficking. They tell Insight that, according to the CIA, Russian specialists still operate the electronic listening station at Lourdes on the northeast tip of the island which taps into U.S. communications. During the Persian Gulf War, this station forwarded strategic information to Iraq.
Reports smuggled out this year by dissident Cuban military officers and scientists are believed to be among the factors prompting Defense Secretary William Cohen to revise a Pentagon report sent to Congress last April which decertified Cuba as a threat to U.S. national security. The revised report, still classified but made available to an Insight reporter, states: "Cuba's air force is in disrepair and much of the regular army is demobilized, but the Castro government retains the potential to pose unconventional threats. It has the infrastructure which can be adapted to the production of chem-bio weapons."
A classified annex to the Pentagon's final report to Congress further warns: "According to sources within Cuba, at least one research site is run and funded by the Cuban military to work on the development of offensive and defensive biological weapons." Why does the president ignore this? "Clinton just wants to avoid another front," says Ernesto Betancourt, former director of Radio Marti, a U.S. government broadcasting service. Betancourt believes that the administration is terrified of provoking a confrontation which could lead to another Cuban wave of refugees. ***