Chavez has long courted all our enemies; funding Al-Qaeda after 9/11, bringing in Russian arms and Libyan Katushka missiles & technicians, funneling Middle Easterners through their Oni-Dex citizen registration process before issuing them Venezuelian passports on there way to North America, depositing 4.5 billion $'s with China who does more business with them now than the rest of South & Central America combined, Venezuelian govt envoys visiting, consorting & praising N Korea, Chavez first head of state to visit Iraq in supporting Saddam Hussein after first Iraq war, receiving secret C-130 shipments from Iraq right before last Iraq war. Chavez trading arms for narcotics with Columbian narcoterrorists FARC/ELN. And, of course, Castro is his mentor and Chavez is Cuba's essential oil source. And, one of Castro's bio-weapons facility with technicians was shipped to Venezuela. Oh, yeah, did I also mention Chavez has been for years pushing France to release 'Carlos the Jackal', brother of Raphael Ramirez, Chavez's former Minister of Energy & Mines and current President of PDVSA, to Venezuela to 'serve out' his prison term there. I'd first gotten most of the above direct from his former top military staff; Commanding General's of the army, air force, navy, national guard and military academy and civil ministers down there, including the head of Oni-Dex office, and his personal presidential airbus pilot Major Diaz, who all quit him in disgust & public protest in late 2002. Helped get Major Diaz, in fear for his life, secreted out to Miami and arranged for extensive debriefing by FBI there, along with lots of documentation provided then, too. Tried to reveal some of what I'd learned back in 2002 & 2003 via major media up here, including Major Diaz first-hand knowledge of Chavez giving Taliban $1 million AFTER 9/11, which made front page news all across Venezuela... ...but could only get traction via the internet here... http://www.financialsense.com/node/223 http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=1659 http://www.aim.org/aim-report/aim-report-joe-mccarthy-was-right/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/802763/posts http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=50657 Some of the internal links in the stories above don't come up, as the protest site militaresdemocraticos run by a friend of mine is now down, but archive here still shows many of them from then, when I was there, of what all was going on... http://web.archive.org/web/20060518011401/www.militaresdemocraticos.com/en/oficiales.html That archive site also links to more in-depth articles of all of Chavez diverse shenanigans. While I was stunned to see the lack of interest by our major media and our govt back then, I did get confirmation later about unseen agenda's behind the scenes leaving us unintentionally, or not, vulnerable. Love to see some wikileaks to & from our U.S. embassy in Venezuela from back then, as they were clearly, contrary to popular belief, not supportive of Chavez being ousted then. Which was a terrible shame and lost opportunity, as popular sentiment then already had him packing his bags with plane waiting to take him to his place in Cuba, if only Bush had come out and publicly added him to his short list of evil axis nations back then. Chavez certainly earned & deserved inclusion in it. Shane Connor www.ki4u.com Shane Connor is the CEO of www.ki4u.com. Consultants and developers of Civil Defense solutions to Government, NPO's and Individual Families. Everyone is invited to copy, post, print, and distribute this article anywhere, as long as they do so without charging anything for it. It must be reproduced in entirety, including this notice, and not be altered or edited. To contact the author with comments, e-mail: Shane Connor at shane@ki4u.com