Rumsfeld: Terrorism Threat In S. America

[Judi Lynn]

Rumsfeld: Terrorism Threat In S. America
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Says There Is A Terrorist Threat In Central And South America

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras 8.20.03, 10:21a -
Although Iraq and Afghanistan are the main U.S. battlefields in the war on terrorism, there also is a significant terrorist threat in Central and South America, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday.

"It is a truly global struggle," Rumsfeld told about 100 U.S. troops inside a cinder block aircraft hanger at this remote air base in a lush valley ringed by thickly forested mountain peaks.

Terrorists in this region are mixed with drug traffickers and other criminals, he said, making them difficult to distinguish.

"In this region we know there are terrorists, there are hostage-takers, there are drug traffickers," he said. "Sometimes it's the same people doing all three things. And it poses a very serious threat."

Rumsfeld stopped here for about an hour to address members of a U.S. multi-service group called Joint Task Force Bravo, a little-known outfit that conducts training, counter-drug and humanitarian missions in Central and South America and in the Caribbean. They number about 500 troops. (snip)

(snip) Rumsfeld said the Bush administration appreciates the Honduran government's partnership in the war on terrorism. As evidence of that cooperation he noted that Honduras is sending troops to Iraq. (snip/...)

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[diamond14]

1. rummy's tried TWICE to overthrow Hugo Chavez....all the OIL

down south has got to be part of the PNAC world-wide domination plan....

pack your bags, young men, the draft is coming....


or STAND UP and MARCH against this madness, in DC on Saturday...join us, before it's too late...

http://www.kwru.org/march/index.html

[ignatius]

2. COL. we trained most of them at the School of the Americas and

shared in the drug trafficking..can you say Iran Contra?

Funny how the areas full of oil are where most terrorists seem to be.

[arcos]

3. That is NOT good news...

:scared::scared::scared:

[papau]

4. There is a Columbia pipeline - guess that is what "Terrorism" means

beside we must take our minds off other areas of the world - like the huge 1000% increase in the drug crop in Afghanistan.

[MostlyBlackCat2]

5. did rummy JUST come out of a cave or something

terrorism in south and central america?? noooooooooo. you don't say? jeez, even with my rudimentary command of spanish I could figgered that one out, given all the resources they have down there that we want, the destruction of their crops from spraying by american planes, the constant interference of our government in any government they get into power, our corporations going in and filthifying (my own new word) their water supplies, paying for-sh*t wages and using slave labor, ripping down the rainforest oh NO SH*T SHERLOCK yeah, there's terrorists there!!!!!!!!!!!! God would someone just slap this man just ONCE on television? please?

[Judi Lynn]

9. He must be psychic

Don't forget Senator Paul Welstone got an unexpected spraying from one of the defoliant planes once on a trip to Colombia, as well as arriving in a town where there was a bomb planted by the roadside. Someone in Washington hurredly issued a denial that it could have been intentional.

[mitchtv]

6. lemme guess

Venezuela? Equador?
terra in Colombia you say?

[genius]

7. Rumsfeld and terrorist threat

Why do these two seem to go together?

[prolesunited]

8. Quite a coincidence

that these terrorists keep seeming to crop up in oil-producing countries. Move along, nothing to see here.

[0007]

10. I'll be glad when this crazy motherfucker

is out of office. Rumsfield is part of the creation of terrorism. He is Mr. Terror.

[ScotTissue]

11. Ciudad del Este

The terrorist hub of South America is Ciudad del Este, a crime-ridden town on the frontier between Brazil and Paraguay near the Iquazu Falls. It is an underworld Mecca (pardon the pun) where exists a neat confluence of auto theft, racketeering, drug smuggling, money laundering, illegal weapons sales, and, yes, fundamentalist Islamic terror. The bombing of the Israeli embassy (or was it a synogogue?) in Argentina in the mid 90s was traced thru Ciudad del Este to Middle East terror groups. It really is an epicenter in the global terror effort, which is why we should have our eyes trained on it at all times...as I suspect we do.

[Aidoneus]

12. there is indeed an incredibly dangerous "terrorist" threat to S.America

it's called "US policy". Stop it before it kills again..