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Terror Close to Home
The article is too long to post, so as they say, read it all.It looks like the Marxist pygmies and the Islamofascist pygmies are morphing together in the hope of becoming big enough to take on the US Venezuela is providing support—including identity documents—that could prove useful to radical Islamic groups, say U.S. officials. U.S. News has learned that Chavezâs government has issued thousands of cedulas, the equivalent of Social Security cards, to people from places such as Cuba, Colombia, and Middle Eastern nations that play host to foreign terrorist organizations. An American official with firsthand knowledge of the ID scheme has seen computer spreadsheets with names of people organized by nationality. "The list easily totaled several thousand," the official says. "Colombians were the largest group; there were more than a thousand of them. It also included many from Middle Eastern `countries of interestâ like Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon." The official adds: "It was shocking to see how extensive the list was." U.S. officials believe that the Venezuelan government is issuing the documents to people who should not be getting them and that some of these cedulas were subsequently used to obtain Venezuelan passports and even American visas, which could allow the holder to elude immigration checks and enter the United States. U.S. officials say that the cedulas are also being used by Colombian subversives and by some Venezuelan officials to travel surreptitiously.
Posted by: tipper. 2003-10-01 |
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