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(IR) Iran Air 744

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Hezbollah and The Cartels

Signs are growing that the terror group Hezbollah has expanded its long-established influence with South and Central American drug cartels into a working presence in Mexico.

Rep. Sue Myrick (R.-N.C.) is asking the Department of Homeland Security to form a task force to investigate ties between the Islamic terror group Hezbollah, the drug cartels in Central and South America and new indications of a Hezbollah presence in Mexico.

Documents obtained exclusively by Human Events reveal a well-established smuggling route into the U.S. Over 180,000 illegal aliens from countries Other than Mexico (OTM) were apprehended from 2007 through mid-March 2010.

Nearly 150,000 of those apprehended were from South and Central American countries that the State Department says are being used as corridors for smuggling people from the Middle East, Southwest Asia and East Africa.

State Department documents examined by Human Events raise concerns that Hezbollah has already used these long-established narco-terror relationships to establish terror cells in the United States.

From the State Department Country Reports on Terrorism 2008:

“Over the past five years, however, smuggling rings have been detected moving people from East Africa, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia to Honduras or through its territory. In 2008, there was an increase in the number of boats arriving on the North coast, ferrying people from all over the world seeking to enter the United States illegally via Guatemala and Mexico.

Nationals of countries without Honduran visa requirements, especially Ecuador and Colombia, were involved in schemes to transit Honduras, often with the United States and Europe as their final destination. Foreign nationals have successfully obtained valid Honduran identity cards and passports under their own or false identities.”

Over the past three years, nearly 57,000 people have been apprehended in this country illegally with Honduran identification. Over 49,000 were from Guatemala and over 38,000 from El Salvador, home of the MS-13 narco-terror gangs.

Myrick has requested that a task force study new indications that Hezbollah has expanded their presence into Mexico. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Myrick gives several examples of Hezbollah’s influence on the drug cartels.

“We have seen their cooperation in countries across South America, particularly the tri-border area of South America (bounded by Puerto Iguazu, Argentina; Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; and Foz do Iguanzo, Brazil).

Hezbollah operates almost like a Mafia family in this region, often demanding protection money and ‘taxes’ from local inhabitants,” Myrick states in the letter.

Of particular concern was evidence of Hezbollah influence in Mexico, which is the gateway into the United States for drug cartels.

Myrick’s letter warns that tattoos have been found on drug gangs in U.S. prisons showing the influence of Iranian-directed Hezbollah terrorists.

“If you go down to the San Diego area in the prisons that’s where you’ll see prison inmates with Farsi tattoos,” Myrick told Human Events in a recent interview. “It’s not a secret, it just something that people have chosen to ignore.”

Myrick also raised concerns over Hezbollah training Mexican cartels in bomb making and sophisticated tunneling techniques that they’ve used for terrorist attacks against Israel.

“I think that there is a bigger picture here that everyone is ignoring,” Myrick said. “I’ve asked Homeland Security for a task force.

They said they would give me an intelligence briefing, which would be to shut me up so I can’t say anything. I’m not going to do that. I want some answers to my questions on the task force first.”

T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, recently told Human Events the Mexican cartels are building sophisticated tunnels into the United States.

“When you look at some of the pretty sophisticated tunnels that they’ve dug under the border where two adult males can walk side-by-side without bending over you know that they’ve built them not just for moving drugs through there but [to move] anything through there,” Bonner said.

When asked if the Mexican cartels would work with terrorist groups, Bonner said it’s all about the money.

“They don’t have a conscience. They really don’t care what they’re smuggling across the border—it could be a weapon of mass destruction—as long as the price is right they’ll move it,” Bonner said. “They don’t care whether the person is from a terrorist sponsoring country or whether that person is from Mexico, if the person pays the fee they’re getting across. The higher the fee you pay, the more likely it is that you’re going to get across.”

Bonner said that this year there is a higher percentage of border apprehensions for drug arrests and OTMs.

“It’s not that the OTMs and the drugs coming across have necessarily increased but we have seen our effectiveness increase because we have fewer people coming across,” Bonner said.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R.-Mich.), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, served for 12 years as an FBI Special Agent.

He spoke recently with HUMAN EVENTS about the smuggling routes into this country from these South American countries.

“Remember there’s a difference in a criminal enterprise that seeks to come here that wants to be surreptitious,” Rogers warned. “They’re not showing up to get a job at a construction site.

They’re showing up here to do a whole other set of activities that they also don’t want law enforcement to know about, so that makes that group of individuals more difficult to catch and they are much more dangerous.”

Rogers says the lines are being blurred between the terrorist groups and the drug cartels.

“What we see that happening in Pakistan, and we see it happening in Northern Africa and we see it happening in the Arabian Peninsula that these groups will work together,” Rogers said.

“I think the five crime families in New York are a great example. If they can find a way to work together to benefit both of them between two families or three families or four families or five families they will do it. It doesn’t mean they like each other, it doesn’t mean they won’t shoot each other, but if they can find something that benefits them they’ll do it. These groups are no different.”

According to an April 30 report compiled by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, “International terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have also reportedly raised funding for their terrorist activities through linkages formed with [drug trafficking organizations] in South America, particularly those operating in the tri-border area (TBA) of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.”

“We have clearly seen that the line between the narco-terrorist and funding for terrorist operations is getting awful blurred,” Rogers said.

“I think that the sooner we come to the realization that all of these groups will use each other to further their aims the better off we are.”

Connie Hair writes daily as HUMAN EVENTS’ Congressional correspondent. She is a former speechwriter for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and a former media and coalitions advisor to the Senate Republican Conference. You can follow Connie on Twitter @ConnieHair.
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GOP Rep: Hezbollah Partners With Drug Cartels To Infiltrate America’s Southern Border
Justin Elliott June 25, 2010, 4:18PM

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC), who we last encountered exposing Muslim intern spies on Capitol Hill and terrorists in the nation’s convenience stores, has issued her most startling warning yet:

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, she has come to believe, is partnering with Mexican drug cartels in the U.S. borderlands and may be planning “Israel-like car bombings of Mexican/USA border personnel or National Guard units.”

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Myrick calls for a task force “to engage US and Mexican law enforcement and border patrol officials about Hezbollah’s presence, activities, and connections to gangs and drug cartels.”

Myrick says she has to come believe that Hezbollah is operating on the border because of evidence well, wouldn’t that be crazy? She writes:

“The connection between Hezbollah and the drug cartels has seemed to grow over the past few years. This may be especially true on the US Southern border.Across states in the Southwest, well trained officials are beginning to notice the tattoos of gang members in prisons are being written in Farsi.

We have typically seen tattoos in Arabic, but Farsi implies a Persian influence that can likely be traced back to Iran and its proxy army, Hezbollah. These tattoos in Farsi are almost always seen in combination with gang or drug cartel tattoos. These combinations have been increasing in number and point to the fact that these criminals are tied to both Hezbollah and gangs and drug cartels.”

Myrick also points to the similarity between the U.S. border terrain and Israel as a reason why Hezbollah is there:

“Former intelligence officials have pointed to the terrain that makes up our border, especially in the San Diego border sector, as a reason why drug cartels have been partnering with Hezbollah. This terrain is very much like the areas around Israel’s borders.

As we well know, Hezbollah is extremely skilled in the construction of tunnels. Israel has time and again found Hezbollah tunnels leading into Israel, some of which are large enough to accommodate trucks.

Likewise, these intelligence officials say that the drug cartels, in an effort to dig larger and more effective tunnels, are employing the expertise of Hezbollah. For their expertise, Hezbollah could be receiving a cut of the drug money or even be helping put cash up front to assist in the overall drug operations.”

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Taggers at Work

Is Ramón Rodríguez Chacín Venezuela's FARC Connection?

There is a report today that Carlos Molina Tamayo witnessed a Venezuelan arms shipment to the FARC by Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, an Aidot Venezuelan President Chavez.

IP Interest in Texas Syndicate Interest and Barrera

IP address

67.9.74.142


1st September 2010 22:04:360

Search Through BING

"www. texas sydicate tomas barrera.com "

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0Laredo, Texas, United StatesRoad Runner (67.9.74.142) Laredo interest in Berea [Edit Label]dfwgangs.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.htmldfwgangs.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html


IP has historicall shown repeated Texas Syndicate interest

Russia Sells MI-17s to Argentina

Russia has signed a "historic" contract on Mi-17 helicopter deliveries to Argentina, a member of a Russian delegation said on Wednesday.

"The contract provides for the delivery of two Mi-17 helicopters to the Argentinean Air Force," the official said, adding that the contract was signed on Tuesday evening.
The sale is the first time the Argentinean military has bought Russian military hardware, he said.

"Until now there has been no military-technical cooperation between Russia and Argentina," he said.

Vyacheslav Davidenko, spokesman for Russian state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, confirmed the contract.

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MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti)

Published in the Shimron Letters. It shows that a Farsi-reading person (Iranian) in Venezuela was doing a web search on Silva, and spendt over three hours on the following indictment.

Is there an Iranian or Hezbollah connection to this South American - African drug smuggling ring?


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New York .- Romania today extradited to the United States to Colombian drug lord Jesus Eduardo Valencia Arbelaez, alias "Father" and alias "Pat", leader of a Colombian-Venezuelan drug trafficking and money laundering, to be tried before the Court for the Southern District in Manhattan.

The prosecutor Preet Bhar and the administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA Drug Enforcement Administration), Michele M. Leonhart recalled that according to the Indictment of July 7 in 2009y other court documents that Valencia Arbelaez led a sophisticated organization based in Colombia and Venezuela, which operated through Bolivia, Spain, Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Cyprus and the United States......

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This article was orginally published in spanish, @ primerapagina.com.co

TDBA shows that someone (186.90.181.21 ) in Venezuela, searced for "manuel silva jaramillo" information - and translated it into Farsi.

15th August 2010 21:42:05

Page View http://www.google.co.ve/search?hl=es&source=hp&q=manuelshimronletters.blogspot.com/2010/01/venezuela-interest-in-manuel-silva.html


16th August 2010 01:11:40 Page View http://www.google.co.ve/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=es&ie=UTF8&rlz=1T4ADBF_esVE296VE296&q=manuelshimronletters.blogspot.com/2010/01/venezuela-interest-in-manuel-silva.html

-Shimron

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......In September 2007 members of its network bought an airplane to transport tons of cocaine to West Africa. Between September 2007 and March 2009, Manuel Silva Jaramillo, another member of the organization arrested this year, led meetings to acquire the aircraft, including those in Madrid, Spain and New York and Virginia. Jaramillo Silva got the financing for the purchase of aircraft registered in Cyprus and Sierra Leone.

During a meeting, which was recorded, Silva Jaramillo revealed that the organization had between 30 and 60 million euros in Spain that needed washing. Jesus Eduardo Valencia Arbelaez, who has dual Colombian and Mexican citizenship, in , met in Spain with an undercover DEA agent November 2008 to purchase the aircraft.

He then admitted that the organization enjoyed support by land and had a private military airfield in Guinea, West Africa, where it could deliver the cocaine shipments that originated in Venezuela. Also found that while the airplane could be capable of carrying seven tons of cocaine at the same time, the organization wanted to start shipments of two to three tons. In January 2009, Valencia Arbelaez met again with the DEA confidential source in Europe.

Entre otras cosas, reconoció quesu red investigaba la posibilidad de envíos de cocaína desde Bolivia a África. Among other things, recognized network Quesu investigating the possibility of cocaine shipments from Bolivia to Africa. The next day, Valencia Arbelaez managed the delivery of 250,000 euros in cash to the confidential source, representing an additional payment for the purchase of the aircraft. On June 10, 2009, the Colombian traveled to Bucharest in Romania, to further meetings to establish a new base of operations for the organization. Following an arrest warrant from the United States, the Romanian authorities - Inspectoratul General Poliţiei Romane (Igpr) - Valencia Arbelaez captured in the Hotel Continental in Bucharest on 12 June, to be extradited. This is the fifth member of the organization to be arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to drug trafficking.

In April 2009 Gerardo Quintana Pérez, alias "El Viejo" and alias "Quintero Germain and Steven Harvey Perez, aka" Michael "who were sent from Sierra Leone to the United States. In June 2009, Javier Caro, alias "William Zabieh", aka "The Engineer," alias "Javier Gonzalez" was extradited to the U.S. territory from Togo and Manuel Silva Jaramillo was arrested in the Dominican Republic. Valencia Arbelaez, 43, and Silva Jaramillo, 55, will be tried for conspiracy to distribute more than five kilos of cocaine into the United States, conspiracy to import drugs and conspiracy to launder dollars from drug trafficking. They could be sentenced to pay a life sentence.

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