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Brazil “an operational hub for Iran and Islamic Terrorism”

Mar 22, 2015 8:15 am By Robert Spencer

albertonismanAnd Peru and Venezuela are part of “the intricate network set up to ‘export Iran’s Islamic Revolution’ to the West,” while Argentina is apparently an active participant.

“Dead Argentine prosecutor was zeroing in on a terror threat to the entire Western Hemisphere,” by Linette Lopez, Business Insider, March 20, 2015:

As days go by, the mystery surrounding the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman – who was found shot in the head in his locked apartment two months ago – becomes murkier.But we’re learning a lot more about the explosive findings of his decade-long investigation.

Testimony from journalists and government officials suggest that in addition to describing Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s hand in protecting the perpetrators of a 1994 Buenos Aires terrorist attack, Nisman was also working to blow the lid off the workings of Iran’s terrorist organization in Latin America.

Nisman’s decade of work on the subject pointed to Iran.

And according to the testimonies, it appears Nisman was working to blow the lid off the entire workings of Iran’s terrorist organization in Latin America.

‘Export Iran’s Islamic Revolution’

In a written statement on Wednesday, Brazilian investigative journalist Leonardo Coutinho walked members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs through the findings of his years of work looking into Iran’s penetration of Brazil.

In a statement titled “Brazil as an operational hub for Iran and Islamic Terrorism,” Coutinho discusses not only his findings while working for Brazil’s Veja magazine, but also Nisman’s tireless work.

“Official investigations carried out by Argentine, American, and Brazilian authorities have revealed how Brazil figures into the intricate network set up to ‘export Iran’s Islamic Revolution’ to the West, by both establishing legitimacy and regional support while simultaneously organizing and planning terrorist attacks,” Coutinho said (emphasis ours).

“Despite the fact that Brazil has never been the target of one of these terrorist attacks, the country plays the role of a safe haven for Islamic extremist groups, as explained below.”

He went on to note that Nisman’s 502-page dictum on the 1994 Buenos Aires terrorist attack “not only describes the operations of the network responsible for this terrorist attack, it also names those who carried it out. Consequently, the document lists twelve people in Brazil with ties to [Iran’s Lebanese proxy] Hezbollah, who reside or resided in Brazil. Seven of these operatives had either direct or indirect participation in the AMIA bombing.”

To put these astounding assertions into perspective, consider that Iranian military mastermind Qassem Suleimani recently said, “We are witnessing the export of the Islamic Revolution throughout the region. From Bahrain and Iraq to Syria, Yemen and North Africa.”…

And now, according to reporting from Veja and Nisman, Iran and Hezbollah have been attempting the same in Latin America.Nisman dug deep

Nisman had been working on Iran’s involvement in Latin America since 2005, when Nestor Kirchner, then Argentina’s president, asked him to investigate a 1994 terrorist attack on a Buenos Aires Jewish Center, AMIA. The attack killed 85 people.

Around the same time, according to reports, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, had allegedly ensured that Iranian and Hezbollah agents were furnished with passports and flights that would allow them to move freely around South America and to Iran.

From there, it was a matter of fund-raising for Iran’s agents – co-opting drug cartels, and sometimes hiding in remote, lawless parts of Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, and other countries that lack the infrastructural, legal, and economic resources to root out Iran’s agents of terror.

“Iran and Hezbollah, two forces hostile to US interests, have made significant inroads in Peru, almost without detection, in part because of our weak institutions, prevalent criminal enterprise, and various stateless areas,” Peru’s former vice interior minister told Wednesday’s House hearing, noting that Peru was not hostile to the US. “These elements are particularly weak in the southern mountainous region of my country.”

Nisman’s findings alleged that Hezbollah and top government officials in Iran orchestrated the AMIA attack. Nisman’s investigation was lauded by international parties – current President (and Nestor’s widow) Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has said so herself.But things changed after Nestor left office in 2007. Argentina’s prolonged ostracization from international markets made it a cash-strapped nation, and the popularity of the Kirchners domestically waned below ecstatic.

That meant Fernandez would have to fight to hold on to power, and that fight would take money. According to Coutinho’s work, that’s when things changed. He interviewed three defected officials of Chavez’s regime who said they witnessed a conversation between the Venezuelan president and his then-Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in January 2007.

Ahmadinejad and Chavez reportedly planned to coerce Argentina into sharing nuclear technology with Iran – which Argentina had done in the 1980s and again in the early 1990s after the AMIA bombing – and stopping the hunt for the perpetrators of the AMIA bombing in exchange for cash, some of it to finance Fernandez’s political aims. It’s unclear whether Fernandez knew where this money was coming from, according to Coutinho.

In any case, The New York Times recently reported that intercepted conversations between Argentine and Iranian officials “point to a long pattern of secret negotiations to reach a deal in which Argentina would receive oil in exchange for shielding Iranian officials” from being formally accused of orchestrating the terror attack….

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Comments

  1. Spot On says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 8:20 am

    Seems like we have almost everyone outsmarting Washington these days. Not a good situation.

  2. vlparker says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 9:55 am

    Wouldn’t surprise me if Obama has a hand in it also.

    • 11B40 says

      Mar 22, 2015 at 11:34 am

      Greetings:

      I get a bit of my TV news from the France24 English channel. For the last couple of weeks, it has been somewhat covering a corruption eruption down Brazil way provoking large street demonstrations against the state owned oil company, PETROBAS, its employees, and various government officials. This PETROBAS “company” was given some billions in loans by President Obama’s administration several years back and Brazil’s current Madam President was formerly one of its high officials.

      Predictably, the American media has pretty much ignored the situation.

  3. wrd9 says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    This isn’t surprising. Latin America, with all its corruption and massive population of low IQ criminals would be a great place for Islam. They already have a culture of oppressing women. The promiscuity of the women and the loose morals might make adopting the burka and praying 5 times a day a problem, though.

  4. John Sobieski says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    Add Guyana to the list also. An acquaintance from Guyana tells me of the Saudi government sponsored proselytizing and terrorism training in Guyana.

  5. More Ham Ed says

    Mar 22, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    Justa Tiny Minority ™ doncha’ know.

  6. Brian Hoff says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 12:47 am

    The far rightwing prejury and islamoprobic machune at work makeing up false stroys.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2015 at 1:39 am

      There is nothing “Islamoprobic’ about reporting this story.

      The lawless “Triple Frontier” area of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay has long been a hotbed of JIhad, and then there was the horrific Jihad terror bombing of a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in 1994 that killed 84 people and left hundreds injured.

      While it is not as high profile as Europe’s problems with Jihad, South America has been increasingly troubled by it for decades now.

      “Trouble on the Triple Frontier”

      http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138096/christine-folch/trouble-on-the-triple-frontier

      Of course, “DefenderoIslam” believes that being concerned over Jihad terror and dead Jews is “Islamoprobic”.

  7. gravenimage says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 1:18 am

    Brazil “an operational hub for Iran and Islamic Terrorism”

    And Peru and Venezuela are part of “the intricate network set up to ‘export Iran’s Islamic Revolution’ to the West,” while Argentina is apparently an active participant.
    ………………………….

    There is no place on earth that hasn’t been infiltrated by Islam.

  8. Raja says

    Mar 23, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    This is hardly shocking!!! The places where traditionally Christianity is being followed are great places for breeding of Islam. Traditional Christianity is low in morals and Jesus himself was against man made traditions. Witness the 6th century Christianity that acted as catalyst for devil to start another so called religion with all the tricks and fraud of garden of Eden.The evil elements/political Islam knows too well of the fertile ground for making inroads into West. This shows that the message of Jesus must be make available to counter the evil influence ALL THE TIME EVERYWHERE!!!!

  9. SBOBET says

    Apr 27, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    He is legends really.
    And i like him very much.

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