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Chávez appoints Saddam supporter
Venezuelan now in charge of nation's passport agency
Posted: December 1, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez,a longtime friend of Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro, is being criticized for appointing two radical ideologues to the top
positions in the Latin American nation's immigration department – one of whom
is, according to a Spanish-language periodical, a supporter of Saddam Hussein.
Hugo Cabezas and Tareck el Aissami were appointed last month as director and
deputy director of the Identification and Immigration Directorate, in charge of
border controls and issuing passports and national ID cards. The agency also
works with electoral authorities on voter registration.
According to the Miami Herald, both appointees were student leaders at the
University of the Andes in the western city of Merida, described by senior
school officials as a virtual haven for armed Chávez supporters and leftist
guerrillas.
When El Aissami served as president of the student body from 2001 to 2003, his
armed supporters controlled the university's dormitories, said Oswando Alcala,
a professor and director of student affairs.
Their appointments to the passport office raised eyebrows both because of the
reports of Arabs obtaining Venezuelan ID documents and the possibility of fraud
in an ongoing drive for a referendum to recall Chávez. His popularity stands
at less than 40 percent.
Allegations that Chávez's leftist government issued ID documents to Islamic
radicals surfaced most recently in the newsweekly U.S. News and World Report.
''Venezuela is providing support – including identity documents – that
could prove useful to radical Islamic groups,'' the magazine reported last
month, quoting senior U.S. military and intelligence officials.
Chávez was the only head of state to visit Hussein in recent years – in
2000. He bitterly opposed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and tried to
have a postwar Iraqi delegation banned from OPEC meetings. Cabezas, 30, and El
Aissami, 28, both lawyers, are strong Chávez supporters. Cabezas is now the
fourth-highest-ranking official in Chávez's Fifth Republic Movement, serving
as secretary general of its National Tactical Command.
El Aissami, talking to reporters in Merida on March 27 before he traveled to
Caracas to see Baghdad's ambassador to Venezuela, denounced the U.S. invasion
of Iraq "because today a noble, unarmed and peaceful people is being
attacked.''
Born in Venezuela of Syrian parents, El Aissami is the son of the president of
the Venezuelan branch of Hussein's once-ruling Baath Party, and nephew of
Shibli Al Aissami, a top-ranking Baath Party official in Baghdad whose
whereabouts are unknown.
Tareck El Aissami's father, Carlos, defended him in an interview with the
Herald as an outstanding student and said he was not a member of the Baath
Party.
In an article the father wrote after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and showed to
the Herald, he called President Bush ''genocidal, mentally deranged, a liar and
a racist,'' and al Qaida's leader "the great Mujahedeen, Sheik Osama bin
Laden.''
Venezuela, which opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, refused to recognize Iraq's
delegation to an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting July 31.
Venezuela is the world's No. 5 oil producer.
Venezuelan military defectors say the radical Chavez not only gets his
political inspiration from Castro, he has developed ties with terrorist groups
throughout the world, including al-Qaida, and was at least cordial in relations
with Saddam Hussein before his government was overthrown.
As Air Force Maj. Juan Diaz Castillo, who was Chavez's pilot, told
WorldNetDaily, "the American people should awaken and be aware of the enemy
they have just three hours' flight from the United States."
Diaz has tried to warn U.S. officials of Chavez's direct involvement with
international terrorism and his formation of a bloc of Latin American countries
opposed to the United States.
"My objective here in the U.S. is to show who Chavez really is and the danger
he represents for the whole Western Hemisphere and especially in Venezuela."
Diaz said he was part of an operation in which Chavez gave $1 million to
al-Qaida for relocation costs, shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks on the United States. He is one of more than 100 military officers who
have quit the Chavez regime as the president tries to hang on to power amid a
month-long general strike that has cut off oil exports, his primary source of
income.
In addition to his purported al-Qaida links, Chavez has been warmly received in
travels to Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, China and Libya.
Now there are rumors in Caracas that U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro may soon
be declared persona non grata.
Sources close to the top say Chavez believes the ambassador's increasing
involvement in national affairs is aimed personally against him. Some officials
reacted with a sigh of relief as ambassador Shapiro left on a two-week
vacation.
"It is a breath of fresh air," said one official reacting to Shapiro's
departure. The ambassador, who had just attended a meeting with Executive Vice
President Jose Vicente Rangel, talked to journalists on his way out of the
meeting and said: "The U.S. and Venezuela have a memorable relationship,"
reflecting on the long lasting cooperation between the two countries.
But the ambassador could not refrain from dealing with the immediate problem of
the troubled country and told the media the most important thing on the agenda
is "naming a new board of the national electoral college as a beginning of
fulfilling a 29th of May accord signed between the government and the
opposition." Local media were quick to say that Ambassador Shapiro's remarks
echoed the views of many who believe only a new electoral college can pave the
road to a possible referendum which could end the regime of Chavez.
The relationships between Washington and Caracas deteriorated following the
1998 landslide election victory of Chavez, a revolutionary paratrooper who in
1992 led an unsuccessful coup against the democratically elected President
Carlos Andreas Perez. At that time the colonel led the Revolutionary Simon
Bolivar Movement, a clandestine group of left-wing officers. Observers say it
is ironic the former rebel officer, who led hundreds of soldiers to the capital
in a bloody coup which resulted in the deaths of 120 people, is now accusing
others for plotting against his regime. The coup was quelled by soldiers loyal
to the government and Chavez ended up in jail where he stayed for two years.
The president, once a coup leader, is now warning his supporters, known as "The
Red Berets," of a coup against his regime.
The colonel gradually became a popular figure, the hero of the left, and the
champion of the poor and the underprivileged. Those groups backed him in his
election campaign during which he preached for social and economic reform. His
clandestine group was renamed to The Movement of the Fifth Republic. Chavez
took over from President Andreas Perez, sentenced for embezzlement and
corruption. Perez is now hiding in the Dominican Republic.
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
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Chávez appoints Saddam supporter
Venezuelan now in charge of nation's passport agency
Posted: December 1, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez,a longtime friend of Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro, is being criticized for appointing two radical ideologues to the
top
positions in the Latin American nation's immigration department - one of
whom
is, according to a Spanish-language periodical, a supporter of Saddam
Hussein.
LOL!
WH
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01 Dec 2003 08:47:19 PM |
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In article <20031201082500.05235.00001144@mb-m21.aol.com>, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
Chávez appoints Saddam supporter
Venezuelan now in charge of nation's passport agency
Posted: December 1, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez,a longtime friend of Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro, is being criticized for appointing two radical ideologues to the top
positions in the Latin American nation's immigration department – one of whom
is, according to a Spanish-language periodical, a supporter of Saddam Hussein.
Wonder if this has anything to do with Bush's tacit "support" of the person who
tried to take over in a coup, rather than supporting Chavez during the whole
debacle?
Woods
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02 Dec 2003 03:30:31 AM |
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woodswun@tepidmail.com
wrote:
Wonder if this has anything to do with Bush's tacit "support" of the person
who
tried to take over in a coup, rather than supporting Chavez during the whole
debacle?
Sheesh.
Chavez is a long time supporter of Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro, why would
we even think of supporting him?
Tony
"About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up, who will turn
their attention to the prophecies, in the midst of much clamor and opposition."
Sir Isaac Newton
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02 Dec 2003 04:15:00 PM |
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In article <20031202043031.00773.00001433@mb-m28.aol.com>, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
woodswun@tepidmail.com
wrote:
Wonder if this has anything to do with Bush's tacit "support" of the person
who
tried to take over in a coup, rather than supporting Chavez during the whole
debacle?
Sheesh.
Chavez is a long time supporter of Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro, why would
we even think of supporting him?
Perhaps following through on our lip service of being opposed to insurgency and
terrorism?
Woods
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03 Dec 2003 08:20:42 AM |
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woodswun@tepidmail.com (Woodswun)
wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote:
woodswun@tepidmail.com
wrote:
Wonder if this has anything to do with Bush's tacit "support" of the person
who
tried to take over in a coup, rather than supporting Chavez during the
whole
debacle?
Sheesh.
Chavez is a long time supporter of Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro, why
would
we even think of supporting him?
Perhaps following through on our lip service of being opposed to insurgency
and terrorism?
Woods
Sheesh.
Tony
"About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up, who will turn
their attention to the prophecies, in the midst of much clamor and opposition."
Sir Isaac Newton
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