Iran on the march: shock troops in Venezuela, weapons to Taliban, Iraqi Shi'ites

An interesting article from http://www.jihadwatch.org/ This follows this post about Barack's Iran policy and this article about the recent news about offshore drilling to encourage American energy independence that follows this previous post about it.. This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more posts like this click here.


Iran on the march: shock troops in Venezuela, weapons to Taliban, Iraqi Shi'ites
Oh, and Hamas.

And this will continue and expand, of course, in view of Obama's dhimmitude. "Iran boosts Qods shock troops in Venezuela," by Bill Gertz in the Washington Times, April 21 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Iran is increasing its paramilitary Qods force operatives in Venezuela while covertly continuing supplies of weapons and explosives to Taliban and other insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the Pentagon's first report to Congress on Tehran's military.
The report on Iranian military power provides new details on the group known formally as the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), the Islamist shock troops deployed around the world to advance Iranian interests. The unit is aligned with terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, North Africa and Latin America, and the report warns that U.S. forces are likely to battle the Iranian paramilitaries in the future.
The Qods force "maintains operational capabilities around the world," the report says, adding that "it is well established in the Middle East and North Africa and recent years have witnessed an increased presence in Latin America, particularly Venezuela."
"If U.S. involvement in conflict in these regions deepens, contact with the IRGC-QF, directly or through extremist groups it supports, will be more frequent and consequential," the report says....
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