Thursday, October 02, 2003

Terrorist Scum Roundup
Christian Lowe at the Weekly Standard reveals how US, British, and Australian Special Forces bagged 250 terrorists including a couple dozen al Qaeda in Iraq. I'm sure we'll be reading all about it in the big media soon.

Meanwhile, Linda Robinson at US News and World Report has a review of terrorist news related to our old pal in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Besides importing Cuban thugs into the Venezuelan infrastructure and supporting the narco-terrorist Colombian rebels, he's also got chums in the Middle East:
Middle Eastern terrorist groups are operating support cells in Venezuela and other locations in the Andean region. A two-month review by U.S. News, including interviews with dozens of U.S. and Latin American sources, confirms the terrorist activity. In particular, the magazine has learned that thousands of Venezuelan identity documents are being distributed to foreigners from Middle Eastern nations, including Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, and Lebanon.
If the CIA was on the ball, Hugo would be an accident waiting to happen. But don't tell the State Department, they might get their knickers knotted.