Former Amb. on State Dept. Report on Hezbollah: “Borders on a Lie”

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Roger Noriega, former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, is blasting a recently released State Department report, which claims that there are no “known operational cells of either al-Qa’ida or Hizballah” in the Western Hemisphere.

“Quite frankly, to be very blunt about it, I think this [report] borders on a lie. This report has become a diplomatic report, formulated not to offend anybody. But in terms of shedding any real operational, tactical light on the very real threat that we face in this hemisphere…it just falls well short of that.”

In an interview airing Tuesday on Frank Gaffney’s radio show, Noriega lays part of the blame for the mincing of words in the State Department’s report on the same “fear of offending” that led to the much-criticized Benghazi talking points—in this instance, fear of offending Mexico.

To this shortcoming, Noriega has some blunt advice. “The Mexicans are grownups. They don’t want a terrorist threat to happen in their territory or along our mutual border worse than any of us. We just have to shoot straight with them.”

Additionally, because of the Obama administration’s desire to see organized terrorism as obsolete, he argues, it seemingly has “set the bar so high that they don’t have to acknowledge any kind of threat, so they have an instantaneous excuse not to formulate an effective policy for responding to that threat.“

“This administration is very fond of saying how they’ve shattered the leadership of international terrorism and that we only have to worry about these lone wolves,” Noriega says.  “Then they flip it around and say, ‘Well, there may be lone wolves, but there’s no operational control.’ Well, really, they can’t have it both ways.”

Noriega contends that there are substantial threats posed by Hezbollah and Iranian operatives in the region, including Mohsen Rabbani, who is wanted in connection to the 1994 terrorist bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and Ghazi Atef Nassereddine Abu Ali. According to Noriega, the latter is “Hezbollah’s representative to the petro-rich state of Venezuela, which is essentially a sponsor of Hezbollah and Iran’s best friend in the Western hemisphere.”

Those two men and their allies are not “lone-wolves,” but experts working with extensive financial backing, Noriega says, that are part of a wider threat. “What we see here is really a synergy, a collaborative threat of narco-traffickers, money launderers, radical political movements, terrorist organizations, Iran and Venezuela, all operating—maybe not in a coordinated or integrated way, but definitely in a collaborative way.”

South American & Mexican Hezbollah Jihadis Threaten the United States

20130220_hezbollah_south_americaby ALAN KORNMAN:

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid” – Gen. Eisenhower.

The Iranians and their terrorist proxy Hezbollah has been building forward operating bases in the Tri-Border area of South America and Mexico for the last three decades.  Venezuela’s uranium deposits have been an important and rarely reported on component fueling Iran’s efforts to win the hearts and minds of the people in Latin America and Mexico.

Iranian Press Expose the Hispanic Insurgency

Sending young Iranian clerics to Latin American countries to spread Iranian-style radical Shi’ite Islam: To prepare for such missions, clerics train for three years, and study a variety of subjects to help them in their activity in Latin America: Spanish, religions and cultures of Latin America, and skills for converting Spanish speakers to Islam. In February 2012 Hojjat-ol-Eslam Ruhollah Maheri, the deputy director of the institute, announced that registration was open for the eighth course. Those interested were asked to call the institute or send an application form by email (AmuzehSpanish@gmail.com). (Rasa News Agency, 2/15/2012)(ITIC)

U.S. Congress Alerts The Nation

Congressman Michael McCaul, Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Management, in a 2012 report report titled, “A Line  In The Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror At The Southwest Border“,  is alerting Americans to a very serious problem that we must all become aware.

Of growing concern are Hezbollah, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Force, partnering with Mexican and South American drug syndicates, joining in  lucrative drug, gun running, counterfeiting, and human trafficking operations.  Out of these associations, Islamic terrorist groups are making hundreds of millions of dollars while exploiting our Mexican border and entering the United States at any time of their choosing, often cloaked as illegal immigrants.

Wikileaks Exposes U.S. Brazilian Counterterrorism Recommendations (2011)

CONFIDENTIAL SÃO PAULO 000653

SIPDIS

DEPARTMENT FOR SR FARAH PANDITH, KAREN CHANDLER AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PASS TO AMCONSUL RECIFE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 2019/11/20

TAGS: PGOV OEXC OIIP PHUM PINR PINS PROP SCUL PTER BR

SUBJECT: Scenesetter for SR Farah Pandith’s Visit to Brazil: São Paulo’s Muslims

REF: São PAULO 433 São PAULO 421 BRASILIA 709 2008 São PAULO 542

Classified By: David C. Brooks, State POL; Reason: 1.4 (d)

The U.S. government also wishes to develop relations between U.S. Muslim community leaders and the Muslim communities in Brazil. They hope that by fostering a connection they will “bolster mainstream Islam in Brazil, highlight the importance of freedom of religion in America, the diversity of Islam in America, and debunk the myths that exist about Islam in America.” Additionally it would further the Sao Paulo Muslim community’s effort to spread its “interfaith relations… with other Muslim communities around the World.”

“Post, Karen Chandler, has suggested several possible programs, including a campaign to provide consular information to Muslim contacts, a series of outreach presentations on President Obama, and, most important, our desire to bring down a visiting U.S. Sheik who can explain how Islam is now a vital part of American society and build ties with local religious leaders. Given its size, diversity and traditions of cultural tolerance, Brazil could be an excellent testing ground for programs that might be useful to other WHA posts with similar Muslim minority populations.”

Obama and State Department Arrogance and Idiocy Towards Political Islam

The United States is an Infidel nation, following man made laws, in direct violation of Islamic Law.  For President Obama’s Foreign Policy team to think we can “influence Hezbollah Islam in Brazil by promoting the diversity of Islam in America” as a force multiplier across the South America region to counter the Hezbollah power base in the tri-border area, is patently absurd and quite dangerous.

Our State Department articulates they will achieve this naive objective above by doing a “series of outreach presentations on President Obama and bringing down a U.S. Sheik to say how important Islam is to American Society.”

The WikiLeaks memo above focuses a neon light on how utterly ignorant our State Department officials are about the Islamic Threat Doctrine, Hezbollah, Al-Queda, and the Muslim Brotherhood.  American policy makers believe this mythical form of Infidel U.S. friendly Islam will out Islam the truer Islam of Iran is like the Keystone Cops giving tactical training to the Navy SEAL’s.

Hezbollah is currently sending Jihadis through the porous Mexican / U.S. Border creating a national security risk which The Obama Administration refuses to name, much less address and counter.

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Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Alan Kornman is the regional coordinator of The United West-Uniting Western Civilization for Freedom and Liberty. His email is: alan@theunitedwest.org

 

Update: Creeping Sharia has extensive coverage of Hezbollah in Belize:

Hezbollah getting passports in Belize to travel from Mexico to U.S.

 

Previous CJR posts on the growing terrorist threat from Hezbollah in South America: