Chasing Islamic 'terrorists' in Paraguay

[Judi Lynn]

Chasing Islamic 'terrorists' in Paraguay

The search for the Islamic bogeyman terror organisation in South America is fruitless because none exist.

Last Modified: 25 May 2013 16:37
Belen Fernandez

In November 2012, a subcommittee of the US House Committee on Homeland Security produced a report titled "A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border", an updated version of a similarly named 2006 report.

Both were authored by Texas Congressman Michael T McCaul, who has since become chairman of said committee.

In the preface to the subcommittee's findings, he explains that the updates were required due in part to the fact that "the new element of Iran and Hezbollah's influence in Latin America has become very troubling".

Of course, some observers might find it more troubling that one of the primary bits of evidence listed in support of this "unsettling trend" is that "Iran now has embassies in 11 Latin American countries that include Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua and Uruguay".

When I last checked, diplomatic relations between countries were fairly common, and the opening of embassies abroad was less problematic than other kinds of international projects pursued by certain regimes, such as the illegal invasion of sovereign nations.

More:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/05/2013512105822488194.html

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[ocpagu]

1. Great article.

I've always wondered... if there are several "terrorist training camps" in the Triple Border, it shouldn't be so difficult to publish a single picture of a single one of them, right? Why hasn't the US government provided any evidence of its pathetic claims?

And it's so good to see someone talking about the elephant in the room:

"Investigative historian and journalist Gareth Porter - recipient of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism - meanwhile demonstrated in a 2008 report for the Nation that neither the suicide truck-bomb story nor claims of an Iranian motive for the AMIA attack hold water.

As Porter notes, an explosives expert from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms produced an on-scene post-explosion report "suggesting that the blast came from inside rather than outside" the AMIA building. Furthermore, Iran was engaged until 1995 in negotiations with Argentina to revive suspended nuclear technology contracts and presumably would not have risked jeopardising the process by bombing Argentine institutions."

Also interesting to remember the negative reactions by Israeli and American authorities to the establishment of a joint Argentine-Iranian truth commission to investigate the AMIA bombings.

[Catherina]

2. "Iran now has embassies in 11 Latin American countries"

That's none of your business. It's not your backyard. The US gives refuge to terrorists and thieves wanted in Latin American countries for grave crimes.

How about cooperating in the fight against real *terrorism* and extraditing those criminals to face justice?

[Judi Lynn]

3. No kidding! All those massacre-happy US-supported Presidents, and their officials,

high-ranking officers involved in massacres, and death squad members and all other trash ends up somewhere in the US once the people get organized and win elections, and sometimes the world gets lucky and they get dragged off to stand trial back where they committed their crimes against the human race.

Someone said once that Florida is the place where the Americas vomit those creepy things it they can't stand any longer.