The threat of collusion amongst Venezuela, Iran and Hezbollah.
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After the Israeli attack on Gaza, Iran and Hezbollah may retaliate asymmetrically--via Venezuela's
Hugo Chavez.
Chavez is an expert in asymmetric war and deception, a strategic ally of Iran in a declared war against the "evil empire" of America and a harbormaster for Hezbollah, Hamas and terrorist groups in
Latin America.
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Yahoo! Buzz[/align]He has all the weapons needed to terrorize the U.S., including the capacity to build a dirty bomb--or another biological weapon--and the ability to move money or materials across American borders at will through the 14,000 American gas stations he owns.
Since 2000, Chavez has been to Tehran seven times for extensive deal-making that has produced $20 billion of arrangements more opaque than the funds of Bernie Madoff.
Just last week, Turkey stopped an Iranian shipment headed to Venezuela with 22 containers labeled as tractor parts. "The equipment was enough to set up an explosives lab," a customs official told the Associated Press.
Further, Chavez has welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Caracas several times to strengthen their connection and extend to him oil dependencies in Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
None of these nations, incidentally, have an explicit connection to Iran, but all of them voted against 2006 U.N. Security Council Resolutions sanctioning Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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