{"id":2009,"date":"2008-07-07T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2008-11-23T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T18:25:20","slug":"us-ties-chavez-to-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"US ties Chavez to Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chavez<\/p>\n

Well, Jungle Mom has been warning readers of this blog about this for years (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), but today the Washington Times <\/a>writes that the US has announced that it’s discovered ties between Hezbollah and Chavez;<\/p>\n

An investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) names Venezuelan diplomat Ghazi Nasr al Din and Venezuelan-Arab businessman Fawzi Kanan as key links between the two.<\/p>\n

“It is extremely troubling to see the government of Venezuela employing and providing safe harbor for Hezbollah facilitators and fundraisers,” said Adam Szubin, political affairs director of OFAC.<\/p>\n

Mr. al Din has served as charge d’affaires at the Venezuelan Embassy in Syria and as director of political affairs at the embassy in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The Treasury Department made the accusations in a June 18 statement, which summarized an investigation of Venezuelan-registered businesses that are thought to be laundering money for Hezbollah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yuh, it’s troubling, but since most of our own Christian missionaries in Venezuela have been removed and replaced by Shi’ite clerics for more than a year, who is surprised? Which news agency will summon the intestinal fortitude to ask Obama what he intends to do about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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