Axis of evil

Monday, 31st March 2008

Ken Livingstone’s chum Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, is known to be in cahoots with Iran and has given free passage to people associated with al Qaeda, Hamas or Hezbollah. Which makes him a pretty dangerous kind of guy. But a few days ago Reuters reported something which raises the stakes and should ring the loudest possible alarm bells: that the authorities in Columbia have seized at least 30 kg of uranium from the FARC terrorists — who have received financial support from Chavez.

Since the FARC revolutionaries don’t themselves appear to want to make a nuclear bomb to incinerate Bogota, it is most likely that the uranium stash was destined to be sold to a bidder who did want to make such a bomb. So to where was it destined — and where might other uranium from the same source have ended up?

This article on World-Check suggests that the answer may lie with Syrian-born Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, an al Qaeda man indicted in Spain for involvement in 9/11 and suspected of masterminding the Madrid train bombings.

Nasar lived openly in Venezuela for several months, traveling at all time with his Venezuelan government bodyguard, all the while wanted by Interpol for Spain, visiting Caracas' most important mosque, and holding meetings with Hizballah, ETA, FARC, ELN, and Cuban G-2members, amongst others, in support of their criminal and political activities in Latin America. He shows up on my radar holding meetings with one of Venezuela's most notorious terrorists, Carlos Rafael Lanz Rodriguez [UID 248222], a career Communist infamous for once kidnapping and holding an American businessman for six long years, part of which time he tied the executive to a tree.

What do these two terrorists have in common, you ask? Lanz is presently the president of Venezuela's state-owned aluminium company, Alcasa, which has been accused by former Venezuela government mining engineers of covertly mining Uranium for export to Iran, under the cover of aluminium production.

As this article also asks, in the light of such facts why the hell isn’t the IAEA crawling all over Venezuela? And when is the mainstream western media, which as far as I can see has scarcely registered the Colombian uranium seizure (the only reference I’ve found in Britain was 52 words on page 27 of the London Evening Standard on March 27) going to get off its collectively parked backside and start looking at this?

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