Wednesday, May 9, 2007

LATIN AMERICA: 'We are Muslims. I am Hezbollah.' - Iran funded Terror to south - CLOSE THE FRICKIN BORDER!


The Democrats fiddle, while Rome burns. Atlas readers know Islam has been on the march south of the border (go here.) Further south, the "tri-border" -- comes this;

Hezbollah builds a Western base NBC hat tip Bruce
From inside South America's Tri-border area, Iran-linked militia targets U.S

CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay - The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it, according to militia members, U.S. officials and police agencies across the continent. Triborder_johnson_070508

From its Western base in a remote region divided by the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina known as the Tri-border, or the Triple Frontier, Hezbollah has mined the frustrations of many Muslims among about 25,000 Arab residents whose families immigrated mainly from Lebanon in two waves, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and after the 1985 Lebanese civil war.

An investigation by Telemundo and NBC News has uncovered details of an extensive smuggling network run by Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group founded in Lebanon in 1982 that the United States has labeled an international terrorist organization. The operation funnels large sums of money to militia leaders in the Middle East and finances training camps, propaganda operations and bomb attacks in South America, according to U.S. and South American officials.

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Photo: 'We are Muslims. I am Hezbollah.'
Mustafa Khalil Meri, a Hezbollah militiaman in Paraguay, says the militant Islamist group would take violent revenge inside the United States if it were to attack Iran.



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