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2010-07-06 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexico thwarts Hezbollah bid to set up South American network

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-06 13:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 It's nice to see Mexico step up on this. They must be learning to recognize murderous psychopaths.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-07-06 15:51|| 2010-07-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#2 as there was intelligence that Hezbollah was working in conjunction with Mexican drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The ruling caste is aware enough of what Hezhollah and Hamas have done to another failed state like Lebanon and wouldn't like the Americans to follow the Israeli model to address it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-06 17:47|| 2010-07-06 17:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Quietly, Mexico has long known about murderous foreign psychos, as well as how to deal with them.

PRI was especially fierce against communists, even though on the surface Mexico looked very socialist friendly. If a real communist turned up, he would quickly be a dead communist. With one exception--Trotsky.

And now that PRI is regaining a lot of its former power, the days of Islamic fundies will likely be curtailed. PRI does not want Islam in Mexico.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-06 17:48|| 2010-07-06 17:48|| Front Page Top

#4 It's already got a foothold there. A few years ago the insurgency in Chiapas suddenly stopped, amid persistent rumors that Commandante Marcos had converted to Islam. Whether he converted or not, der Spiegel reported in 2005 that he had entered into an alliance with Muslim financiers in the 1990s and that conversions were multiplying among the Maya and others in southern Mexico. A 2009 story from Radio Netherlands agrees and gives more current details.

Posted by lotp 2010-07-06 20:17|| 2010-07-06 20:17|| Front Page Top

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