Venezuela challenges US to provide evidence of link to terrorism

March 11, 2003

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Roy Chaderton, challenged the US Government today to provide evidence of the charges made by Gen. James Hill that Venezuela is now part of the arab terrorist network and that part of the financing is being done through our country. The charges were made by the General at a Conference in Miami two weeks ago, as reported here. The island of Margarita was explicitly mentioned by the General. Separately, MVR (Chave’z party) Deputy Tarek Saab, who is of Arab ancestry, also rejected the accusations today.


What puzzles me is why it took them two weeks to respond to Gen. Hill’s accusations and it is not a coincidence that the two replied the same day. This seems to be part of a new campaign by Chavez and his collaborators to distance themselves from terrorism, even if they refuse to call the FARC terrorist, but the trail is long and I hope the US Government responds…..

This entry was posted on March 11, 2003 at 11:01 pm and is filed under Venezuela.

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