Thursday December 25, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

An Italian newspaper, quoting a CIA source, reported that Iran was outfitting Syria with advanced weapons in violation of international law and in violation of numerous UN Security Council resolutions.

According to the report which was released several days ago, the CIA has uncovered the third party that permitted the transfer of these weapons. That third party is Venezuela.

The plan takes advantage of regular Venezuelan aircraft that fly into Iran.
The Iranians packed the aircraft with weapons. The planes took off and landed in Syria a few minutes later. The planes returned to Venezuela empty.

It was a very simple plan.
By all rights no one would even pay attention to Venezuelan planes.
But the CIA is skeptical of the relationship between Chavez and Ahmadinejad.
So the CIA started watching backdoor and other channels of interaction.
And that is how they must have stumbled upon the weapons transfer.

I wonder.
Why has a story involving the three worst enemies of the free world involved in unsavory, illegal, dangerous, threatening activity, not made news in the United States.

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