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Hizballah joins with Latin American drug cartels, creating major threat to Florida

Mar 14, 2018 6:07 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

An Islamic paramilitary organization financed by Iran has infiltrated large swaths of South America, joined forces with drug cartels and created a major threat to Florida and the rest of the U.S., experts testified at a Congressional Field Hearing in Pensacola on Monday about Hezbollah’s gains in the Western Hemisphere.

The same infiltration of drug cartels by jihadists is being demonstrated in Australia, Central Asia, Spain, Italy, and other parts of the world. This is a heightened level of jihad financing and warfare.

The deadly alliance between armed drug warlords and jihadists is “little understood,” and will continue to proliferate unless aggressive measures are taken to stymie it.

Thanks to far too many treasonous Western leaders, innocent citizens are increasingly at risk. Kudos to Donald Trump for implementing a temporary ban on immigration from countries of concern, and for his plans for a wall along the Mexican border.

“Rep. Matt Gaetz holds hearing in Pensacola on Hezbollah’s gains in Latin America,” by Melisa Nelson Gabriel, Pensacola News Journal, March 18, 2018:

An Islamic paramilitary organization financed by Iran has infiltrated large swaths of South America, joined forces with drug cartels and created a major threat to Florida and the rest of the U.S., experts testified at a Congressional Field Hearing in Pensacola on Monday about Hezbollah’s gains in the Western Hemisphere.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, moderated the hearing at the National Naval Aviation Museum. He said transcripts of the experts’ testimony would be provided to the U.S. House Armed Services and Judiciary committees.

“This hearing is about highlighting the importance of a stable Western Hemisphere and countering threats in our neighborhood,” Gaetz, a freshman congressman who is up for reelection this year, told a crowd of about 300 people gathered in the museum’s Blue Angels Atrium.

Gaetz and a panel of six elected officials from Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton counties questioned three men with expertise in terrorism and narcotics trafficking in Latin America.

Gaetz, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump’s efforts to toughen immigration rules and build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, suggested conditioning aid to Latin America on countries’ efforts to fight terrorism. Withholding funding is a guaranteed way to get the attention of countries that haven’t done enough to combat the threat, said Gaetz, who has also backed efforts to label Hezbollah as an international criminal and terror organization.

Joseph Callahan, who spent decades as a member of the U.S. Army special forces working in Latin America, said Venezuela is at risk of coming under the control of the Islamic State.

Callahan said Hezbollah, a Lebanese-based paramilitary group that is backed by Iran, has ties with the Los Zetas and Sinaloa drug cartels that operate throughout Latin America.

“There is an exchange of tactics and procedures with narco terrorists,” he said….

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Filed Under: Featured, Hizballah, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S., United States, Venezuela Tagged With: Florida, Pensacola, Rep. Matt Gaetz


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  1. DFD says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 6:54 am

    Was to be expected, I am sure it reaches a lot deeper, and is drastically wider than the article gives reason to believe.

    I am more and more convinced that the only way to deal with Islam is by bombing it’s towns in retaliation, targeting in particular the political rulers and the Islamic ‘universities’. Otherwise it’ll continue and most definitely intensify. The Jihad is well into it’s second stage and in some countries it is approaching the third stage – then or thereafter open warfare and takeover. Of course, the military could wake up and put a stop to this.

    An American general by name of Pershing had it right.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 8:04 am

      You are right, DFD. Muslims dominate the drugs trade all over the world. Along with other rackets, like extortion and people trafficking. The article does not mention France and the UK, both known centres of Muslim crime on an industrial scale. It should be no surprise to anybody that criminal gangs will work together for mutual advantage.

      I agree that if we do not take decisive action soon to rid our society of the pestilence of Islam, our only option will be military.

    • Michael Garland says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 1:10 pm

      To save his treasonous Iran deal,obama ordered “hands off” to Project Cassandra. This effectively allowed hamas, hizbolla, Iran, and mexican drug cartels to import heroin into the U.S.

      Essentially the fbi, cia, state dept. DHS, and dept of injustice helped these countries smuggle drugs to American addicts and soon to be addicts. This turned obama and his government agency heads into drug dealers. And each and everyone of them had no problem with it.

    • J D S says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 10:28 pm

      ” a stable Western Hemisphere and countering threats in our neighborhood”
      Sounds good on paper..and WHEN we are once again the strongest and most feared in the world…this will happen.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 7:50 am

    ECONOMIC SABOTAGE is part of JIHAD. Mohammed practiced ECONOMIC SABOTAGE, so it is VALID, NORMATIVE Islam, rather than an aberration.

    Islam is a SABOTAGE CULT.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 4:10 pm

      True, Mortimer.

  3. Politicianophobia says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 8:41 am

    +1

  4. R Russell says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 8:42 am

    When does the wall between US and Mexico get built?

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 1:51 pm

      Not soon enough!

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 14, 2018 at 2:57 pm

        And instead of pumping tens of millions of dollars into the pockets of jihadis, I’d be quite happy is Canada made some contributions to that wall. It will benefit everyone to the north of it.

        But no. The CBC, aka Pravda, will continue to squeal about how ‘unjust’ and ‘racist’ it is.

    • sally says

      Mar 15, 2018 at 8:35 am

      Here’s a better question: Why are we allowing them in our schools, our hospitals, our places of work or recreation? Why are they not all in hiding when they get here? We sit around complaining about needing walls while we provide bounteous incentives every day to entice them to come here. We suspend our own laws for their benefit, we provide them with housing, with cars, with food, with school, with medical care, we make “dreamers” out of their kids and give them every kind of preference. What kind of wall will discourage them? No point in a wall if we provide this kind of encouragement to come here. That’s just dumb. Better to quit obsessing about some silly wall – which will be no trouble at all to breach – and concentrate instead on enforcing immigration laws on the books already and stop with the free handouts. Check into how much cash these so-called ‘refugees’ are given, find out about the vouchers they get for cars. The rest of us have to pay for this stuff – our own and theirs as well! What wall would keep any of them out? Remember, we prosecute our Border Patrol people for trying to guard the border.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 15, 2018 at 1:21 pm

        Agreed sally. With all that money being saved

        we could build an even better wall. 😉

  5. Peter says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 8:53 am

    If the U.S. government is only now figuring out the linkage between jihadists (whether Sunni or Shi’a) and the cartels, then it is blind, deaf, and dumb. This layman has known about it for more than a decade.

    • Ed Lee says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 3:30 pm

      Absolutely right! Here is a link to a Library of Congress report from 2003 on the Tri-Border area of South America.
      https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/TerrOrgCrime_TBA.pdf

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 4:27 pm

      True–but better late than never. I’m glad to see the authorities at least starting to tackle this.

    • Marco says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 7:11 pm

      They have been in Mexico for years.

  6. Garfield says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 3:31 pm

    As the cartel violence got more gruesome and ritualistic, it seemed obvious that Isis type sickos had infiltrated it. And obama let it happen, for the Iran deal. Sick monstrous criminals.

  7. Ray Jarman says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 3:56 pm

    This goes right back to Hussein Obama. He and his Attorney Generals told the FBI special task force to stop an investigation into drugs and money laundering by Hezbollah and other Iranian state sponsored terrorist groups. It has been reported that Obumer would have done anything to put a deal with Iran on his tombstone. With the plane load of money (literally) that the traitor in the White House provided the mullahs with the means to bribe corrupt politicians in South America who are at this moment being investigated by their parliaments, especially in Peru and Brazil. This is no surprise but I guess that Hussein thought that the mullahs would use this money to enhance the lives of the Iranian people (LOL).

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 14, 2018 at 4:39 pm

      I think much of this would have happened anyway–we do not control Latin America.

      But there is no doubt that Obama’s policies did nothing to help.

  8. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 4:00 pm

    Does the whole “fast and furious” thing connect to this?

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm

    Hizballah joins with Latin American drug cartels, creating major threat to Florida
    ……………………

    Thanks to Christine Douglass-Williams for covering this story.

  10. Marco says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    Hizballah has been in Mexico taking over drug cartels for years.

  11. Infidel says

    Mar 14, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    This is natural and is expected. The affinity for Jehaad and crime on non-Muslims is a long standing one, ever since inception. They attract each other like shit and flies…

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 16, 2018 at 8:44 am

      Mohammed’s very first recruits – his ‘companions’ – were bandits. Mohammed was a gang boss as well as a cult leader.

  12. Debra says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 8:00 am

    This has been known for years, and yet I don’t see a wall, a reduction in immigration, or an expansion of America’s God-given 2A rights–all the things that would protect our Good People. It’s almost like our government is inviting chaos.

  13. sally says

    Mar 15, 2018 at 8:38 am

    If I lived in Florida I would seriously begin looking for someplace else. This is three stories just today about Florida and jihad. I would say that there is a real problem with Florida.

  14. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 16, 2018 at 9:01 am

    It isn’t just Shiite Hezbollah that is up to its ears in the drug trade.

    It’s the Sunni Taliban in Afghanistan.

    Heck I bet it’s all of them, everywhere.

    Back in the 1980s, Australia very, very, very stupidly let a lot of Lebanese Sunni Muslims into the country – we bought their ‘sob stories’, ooooh those poor, poor refugees.

    The *instant* they got into the country, suddenly heroin from the Bekaa Valley started pouring into Australia. They were in the drug trade up to their ears. And every other kind of organised crime as well. And the whole Ummah stuck together like glue and shrieked blue murder about “police brutality” and “racism!” whenever their premises were raided and searched by the police.

    We ended up having to create the “Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad”.. and they are kept very, very busy, to this day. And most of the perps that they manage to catch and bring to trial are.. Mohammedans to a man.

    There was an Aussie cop called Tim Priest who saw it as it happened; he saw the beginnings of it. He wrote an article about it, that was published in ‘Quadrant’ periodical, volume 48, number 1, January-February 2004. “The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia”.

    (*The* main flaw in the article is that he still hasn’t quite realized that it’s not about ethnicity, it’s *all* about ideology – to wit, ISLAM, and that his article *should* have been called “The Rise of Muslim Crime in Australia”).

    Here’s a link – I hope it still works. If you haven’t heard of it, or haven’t read it… DO. And if you are from any European country.. especially Germany… **translate Mr Priest’s article** and circulate it. Copy it to your hard disk. Put it on a USB. Print it off. Spread it around… and if you know anybody working in Law Enforcement, who has given you the impression they’re kind of worried about the mohammedans… *share it with them*, especially.

    http://www.australian-news.com.au/Tim_Priest.htm

    Here’s how it begins, just to give you an idea.

    “I BELIEVE that the rise of Middle Eastern [i.e. Muslim – dda] organised crime in Sydney will have an impact on society unlike anything we have ever seen.
    (Remember – this was in 2004 – dda)

    “In the early 1980s, as a young detective I was attached to the Drug Squad at the old CIB.

    “I remember executing a search warrant at Croydon, where we found nearly a pound of heroin.

    “I know that now sounds very familiar; however, what set this heroin apart was that it was Beaker [sic: for Bekaa, in Lebanon – dda.] Valley Heroin, markedly different from any heroin I had seen. Number Four heroin from the golden triangle of South-East Asia is nearly always off-white, almost pure diamorphine. This heroin was almost brown.

    “But more remarkable were the occupants of the house.

    “They were very recent arrivals from Lebanon, and from the moment we entered the premises, we wrestled and fought with the male occupants, **were abused and spat at by the women and children, and our search took five times longer because of the impediments placed before us by the occupants, including the women hiding heroin in baby nappies and on themselves and refusing to be searched by policewomen because of religious beliefs.** (my emphasis. Nota bene – this tells us a/ that these drug-trafficking criminals were MUSLIMS and b/ that Muslim females and even children are actively complicit in Mohammedan misconduct – dda).

    “We had never encountered these problems before.

    “As was the case in those days, we arrested every adult and teenager who had hampered our search.

    “When it came to court, they were represented by Legal Aid, of course, who claimed that these people were innocent of the minor charges of public disorder and hindering police, because they were recent arrivals from a country where people have an historical hatred towards police, and that they also had poor communications skills and that the police had not executed the warrant in a manner that was acceptable to the Muslim occupants.

    “The magistrate, well known to police as one who convicted fewer than one in ten offenders brought before him during his term at Burwood local court, threw the matter out, siding with the occupants and condemning the police. I remember thinking, thank heavens we don’t run into many Lebanese [i.e. Lebanese Muslim – dda.] drug dealers…”.

    Read it all: it’s a classic. But whenever you encounter the words “Middle Eastern” and/ or “Lebanese” or “Arab” you should mentally insert the word that explains everything: “MUSLIM”. Because he’s talking about Muslims, and what they got up to as soon as there were enough of them to feel they could get away with sh*t; and they are *still* getting up to it, orders of magnitude worse than in the 1980s or in 2004, because now there are nearly a *million* of them swarming in heavily-Islamised chunks of Sydney and Melbourne and spreading to other state capitals and, now, to regional/ semi-rural provincial towns as well. Mosques popping up everywhere. Jihad plots being hatched all over the place; while the out and out criminality – fraud, extortion, arson, honour’ murders’, FGM, child ‘marriages’, feuding and murders – just keeps on proliferating.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Mar 16, 2018 at 9:03 am

      Okay.

      Link needed updating.

      I found *this* link by googling the title of the article. If *this* link doesn’t work for you, try googling the article name, as I did.

      http://australian-news.net/article/the-rise-of-middle-eastern-crime-in-australia

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Mar 16, 2018 at 9:16 am

        And.. we *got rid* of the – very effective – Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad!!!

        STUPID STUPID STUPID.

        Here’s an article from the Sydney Morning Herald absolutely *crowing* about the dissolution of this famous squad. Because its title was raaaaacist, dontchaknow….

        https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/end-of-middle-eastern-organised-crime-squad-as-police-shakeup-targets-silent-crimes-20170929-gyrcda.html

        End of Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad as police shake-up targets ‘silent crimes’

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Mar 17, 2018 at 12:47 pm

        Quadrant Magazine has some great writing, thanks for mentioning this one.

        You can;t find it at their site anymore, but the wayback machine has it:

        https://web.archive.org/web/20080901064454/http://quadrant.org.au:80/php/article_view.php?article_id=581

  15. WB says

    Mar 16, 2018 at 2:23 pm

    Fools, you people don’t understand this is part and parcel a plot to bring down the West. The elites are complicit and doing the bidding of their paymasters. The plan is simple enough. Bring in Muslims in large numbers, encourage them to launch jihad, govt uses the violence to suspend laws, take weapons, and institute a dictatorship.

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