Venezuela says weapons cache uncovered, 4 foreigners detained in suspected terrorist cell

Source: Associated Press

Venezuela says weapons cache uncovered, 4 foreigners detained in suspected terrorist cell
RACHEL JONES | Associated Press Writer
8:14 PM EDT, May 9, 2009

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan police uncovered a cache of weapons and explosives at a Caracas apartment and later detained four foreigners on suspicion of planning terrorist acts, authorities said Saturday.

While announcing the detentions, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami accused foes of President Hugo Chavez of "looking for violence," although he did not link the case to the political opposition. Chavez has repeatedly charged that the opposition is plotting to assassinate him or spur his ouster.

El Aissami said a police raid Friday on an apartment near the capital's center found C-4 explosive, electric detonator systems, thousands of cartridges, and 14 rifles of different models, including five with telescopic sights, five with laser sights and one with a silencer. Documents and a computer found there were being studied, he said.

"This type of military arsenal is used for military actions and operations, with the precise objective of wiping out adversaries," he said.


Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-lt-venezuela-terrorists,0,2746230.story

Here we go again.

isn't it? That situation is dragging in a lot of the oil/gas/agricultural European-descended right-wing in Bolivia, with whom the U.S. ambassador Philip Goldberg, now removed from Bolivia, was conspiring in secret, after-hour meetings far away from his embassy in La Paz.

They caught him out after midnight in Santa Cruz and ran the videos on Bolivian tv stations.





Philip Goldberg

Bolivia: US intervention exposed

Federico Fuentes
31 October 2008

Tensions continue to grow between the US and Bolivia as more evidence comes to light of the former’s role in stoking right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales.

On September 9, Morales expelled US ambassador Philip Goldberg from Bolivia, due to his direct role in the wave of violence that aimed to oust the elected government.

More:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/773/39852

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It's hard NOT thinking immediately of the horrendous event which just happened in another leftist-led country which _Bush worked hard to destabilize.

Color me impressed!

have also singled out Venezuela and Ecuador and have offices in those countries.

and FARC isn't a drug dealer organization anywhere in that part of the world



http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=13d_1241938147
Can't be narco terrorists. Thats easily dismissable by the looks of things
so

gotta be CIA

:sarcasm:

The CIA would never be involved in nefarious activities in Latin America!
You should be ashamed, suggesting such a thing!

:sarcasm:

LOL

when certain posters infer that those who immediately suspect the CIA in these incidents are just conspiracy theorists. Apparently, one is supposed to forget all about the U.S. government's uninterrupted, century long war against populism in the region.

of the country.

The Dominican angle looks interesting (I'm assuming they don't mean monks).
:popcorn::popcorn:

I'm sort of wondering if there are any connections to the bozos in Bolivia. This might be just the beginning.

is also in Venezuela and Ecuador . . .

Started with this major arrest.

Discussed here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2102556

One of the most high profile busts at the time. Occurred AFTER the DEA was “bounced” from Venezuela.

K&R

And let them get on with finding the best way to use the nations resources to the benefit of the greatest number of their people.

Maybe they'll find ways to economize and share resources that will be of use to us in the future as we face our own limitations.

It's the empire, what can I say.

Venezuelan government seized arsenal of alleged "terrorist" group

Venezuelan authorities today announced the seizure of an arsenal of a "terrorist organization" operating in Caracas, in the operation were arrested three and a French Dominican.
Caracas. Venezuela. .- DPA
Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami reported seized were weapons used in operations with specific objectives to destroy enemies, "military uniforms and ammunition

He said that the detainees are Dominicans Luini Campusano Omar de la Cruz, Edgar Sanchez and Diomedis Campusano Floirán Perez, and the French Frederic Laurent Bocquet, allegedly trained in military matters and sniper.

"We can show that this type of weaponry used by military organizations for terrorist actions are destabilizing, this finding does not hesitate to tell the country that we have taken a serious blow to terrorism and those groups that seek to drag Venezuela scenarios blood and confrontation, "said the minister at a press conference.

He added that the state security agencies are alert and deployed to stop any threats against the people and against President Hugo Chávez. "

The official said the weapons seized included 500 grams of C4 explosives, a cable segment electroconductive, 11 electrical detonators for explosives, 19,721 rounds of various calibers, 14 rifles of various models, including five with telescopic sights, five for laser and with a silencer.

They also seized five rifles, three machine guns, four pistols, 51 porters, two bulletproof vests and 11 radio transmitters.

http://www.lanacion.com.py/noticias_um-244947.htm

Dominicans could be accused of being terrorists

There invlucrado they say is a French sniper.

By News Services
Journal DigitalRD.Com

Dominicans Three arrested in Venezuela after the authorities confiscated an arsenal are in serious trouble, since that country's authorities are satisfied that it is to infiltrate this nation to produce terrorist attacks.

Caracas, May 09 ABN .- Although the investigations are just beginning the discovery and subsequent seizure of the arsenal of weapons and military garments that made the Metropolitan Police (PM), this Friday, it was known that this type of weapon used for operations with objectives accurate to annihilate enemies belonging to a terrorist organization operating in the residential complex of the parish Altamar Florida in Caracas.

The Minister of Power for Interior Relations and Justice (MIJ), Tareck The Aissami, said Saturday that because they are already 4 people arrested.

These were identified as Luini Campusano Omar de la Cruz (38); Floirán Edgar Sanchez (29); Diomedis Campusano Perez (31) Dominican nationality, and a French name Frederic Laurent Bocquet, who was known is a person trained in the field military sniper who was part of the army of a European country not listed.

The French citizen was caught in the Nueva Esparta state by a committee of the Body of Scientific, Criminal and (CICPC).

According to the consultation from the International Police (Interpol), Bocquet no records of any agency's request, we also learned that recorded its first entry into the country in 1996 and since then has several movements.

El Aissami explained that according to information that can be drawn from the documents and a computer found at the site of discovery, they have not ruled out further arrests.

"We can show that this type of weaponry used by military organizations for terrorist actions are destabilizing, this finding does not hesitate to tell the country that we have taken a serious blow to terrorism and those groups that seek to drag Venezuela scenarios blood and confrontation, "he said.

He added that the various public safety agencies of the state are deployed and vigilant to any threat that seeks to stop attacking the people and against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías.

The weapons found were 500 grams of C4 explosives, a cable segment electroconductive 11 electrical detonators for explosives, 19,721 rounds of various caliber, 14 rifles of various models, of which 5 are with telescopic sights, laser for 5 and 1 with a silencer.

5 In addition 12 gauge shotguns, machine guns, 3, 4 pistols of various calibers, 51 cacerinas firearms of different calibres, 2 bulletproof vests, 11 radio transmitters, 3 portable radio point to point, 1 radio base.

7 were also found military uniforms that do not correspond to those used by the Venezuelan Armed Forces, 8 facsimiles grenades used for training, 10 facsimiles of guns of various calibers, 6 plates of vehicles with foreign registration plates, various equipment for recharging and development of ammunition, an anti-gas mask, 7 cells, 1 knife, war, computer equipment, packages containing gunpowder 9.

MIJ became the holder of a recognition of the body of the Metropolitan Police has is acting at the height of the revolutionary process.

http://www.diariodigital.com.do/articulo,40605,html

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=es|en#

Venezuelan authorities gave heavy blow to terrorism
Saturday, May 09, 2009

May 09 2009, 18:07 Caracas, 9 may (PL) The Venezuelan authorities gave a hard blow to a terrorist group that sought to drag the nation of blood and scenes of confrontation, said today the Minister for the Interior and Justice (MRIJ) Tareck The Aissami.
The Aissami statements were made at a press conference 24 hours after the Metropolitan Police seized an arsenal of weapons used for operations with precise objectives.

Among the stash of 500 grams were recorded C4 explosives, a cable segment electroconductive, 11 electrical detonators for explosives, 19 thousand 721 cartridges of various calibers, 14 rifles of various models, including five with telescopic sights and an equal number with peepholes laser with a silencer.

In addition, five 12-caliber rifles, three machine guns, four guns of various calibers, 51 cacerinas firearms of different calibers, two bulletproof vests, 11 radio transmitters, three portable radios point to point, and a radio base equipment computer.

Facsimiles were also confiscated 10 guns of various calibers, six plates of foreign registered vehicles, ammunition reloaders, a gas mask, seven cell phones, command a knife nine Packaging wildfire.

So far four people were arrested and identified as Luini Campusano Omar de la Cruz, Edgar Sanchez Floirán; Campusano Diomedis Perez, of Dominican nationality, and a French name Frederic Laurent Bocquet.

Bocquet is a trained military sniper in the area that formed part of the army of a European country not mentioned, said Aissami.

The owner of MRIJV did not rule out further arrests under the newly initiated investigations, and called terrorist organizations not to play with the hope of the people, nor with the change process in Venezuela on the path of peace and democracy.

He added that the various security agencies are deployed to stop any threat that seeks to attack the people and the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, said the Minister.

http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=81789&Itemid=1

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This article says the materials belonged to the French guy, who was caught having fled to a small island off Venezuela:

Dominican caught with weapons and explosives Venezuela

Three Dominicans and a French are investigated in Caracas, Venezuela, after being arrested on Saturday in an apartment in that city where the authorities say they found an arsenal of weapons, explosives and ammunition.

The commissioner of police science from Caracas, Wilmer Flores, identified as Edgar Floirán Dominicans, Omar and his sister Diomedis Campusano Campusano. Laurent is the French Frédéric Bocquet.

In the property allegedly owned by Bocquet, were found 13 long-range rifles, 3 shotguns and 2 machine guns, silencers, telescopic sights, body armor, 5000 rounds of ammunition, grenades, military uniforms and a half kilogram of C4 explosives.

Bouquet was arrested at the airport on the island of Margarita, where he claimed to flee from Venezuela.

http://www.elcaribecdn.com.do/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=207627:apresan-3-dominicanos-con-armas-y-explosivos-en-venezuela&catid=104:nacionales&Itemid=115

Cold War CIA Right To Christers' Espionage Organization , New Tribes Mission, Recalled To Langley:
http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/person.htm

Long History Of Association With Cuban 2506 Brigade, Alpha 66, Omega 7 Exposed:
Unlike CIA's Evangelicals, To Receive Chavez's Aid You Do Not Have To Become A Noxious Right To Christer And Spy For God Is On Our Side Crowd:

By NAT MAYOWN PERSON & ROBERT PARSONS III
Assassinated Press Writer
October 15, 2005

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Members of a Venezuelan indigenous tribe on Saturday criticized President Hugo Chavez's order to expel a U.S. missionary group with long standing ties to the CIA, saying even though the decision was made in the interest of their impoverished Venezuelans there small group was benefiting from their uncanny ability to keep mum for a few gringo dollars.

Jose Kayupare of the Puinare tribe challenged Chavez's claims that the Sanford, Fla.-based New Tribes Mission, long associated with Cuban exile groups, Alpha 66, Omega 7 and the 2506 Brigade, constituted an "imperialist infiltration" that was exploiting native communities citing the 4 casinos his tribe had opened up with CIA money.

"For those of us who run businesses like brothels and coca fields funded by Mr. Kennedy's Alliance for progress and make a good living in the jungle, this really stinks. This is a decision that the majority of indigenous people in Amazonas (state), those who run drugs, arms, sell coochie and slaves and harbor enemies of the Venezuelan people, don't support and that we are not going to accept under any circumstances unless Chavez takes some of that fuckin' oil money and pays us restitution like the Bible teaches us," Kayupare told reporters. "Now I admit I'm just an ignorant Indian and I may not have any idea what the gringo bible thumpers are really up to, but I got a business to protect."

The New Tribes Mission claims it has no clandestine mission, but on its children's NTW website a story called Abeedou's Secret (Ah-bee-doo), Abeedou and his friends spot the Chief talking to two strangers. Who are they? What do they want? Soon their presence leads Abeedou and Grandmother to make a secret pact, and to make a decision that will change their lives forever. The strangers turn out to be none other than the infamous CIA operative Col. Ed Lansdale and the Vichy French counter-insurgency legend Roger Trinquier. Abeedou and his grandmother decide to make a few bucks by turning in union organizers that the gringos proceed to fly out to sea and drop from helicopters.

--snip--

were also involved. It really would figure, after all. They've been CIA-connnected since the 1960's, and some of them before, considering the CIA was operating in Cuba before the revolution.

The Cuban exile terrorists were also up to their eyebrows in Iran/Contra, and drugs, including the bomber/mass murdering Luis Posada Carriles.

Really appreciate seeing this link you've posted. Very interesting group of organizations which are connected. Have heard of many of these without knowing.

and read this article dated Oct. 2005:

Venezuela Discloses Pat Robertson and New Tribes Ties

Caracas, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) Cinematographer Carlos Azpura, director of a documentary about the exploitation of the Venezuelan indigenous, strenuously supported the expulsion of US fundamentalist New Tribes, and made new accusations against them.

In a televised interview Thursday, the maker of "The Amazon, business of this world" said that ultraconservative New Tribes, based in Sanford, Florida, has very close ties with Rev. Pat Robertson who called for assassinating President Hugo Chavez.

Azpura stated that during his research for the film he found out that New Tribes was financed by US General Dynamics and Westinghouse corporations and numerous engineers and geologists entered Venezuela undercover of the missions to study the soils in the fragile and remote region.

He strongly supported the President´s expulsion order for New Tribes, accused of spying for Washington, saying it was an issue of Venezuelan sovereignty and they are distorting the ideology and orientation of generations of indigenous.

This week the defender of indigenous peoples, Candy Bejarano, denounced that New Tribes affected the culture and economy of the native peoples, while anthropologist Emilio Mosonyi went further, asserting that these missions are eliminating the indigenous.

President of the Bolivar Regional Indigenous Institute and legislator, Yaritza Aray, related that when she visited a New Tribes camp in the jungle she saw many armed people and numerous communication antennas.

Once you see the social networks of these organizations, it becomes an easy task to identify their MO.

I ask because 99% of this murderous black ops activity in the Latin Americas originates or is related to Miami's RW anti Castro, anti left factions. What the heck do people think all of that Miamicuban "exile", US taxpayer stimulated "foundations" and "free Cuba" groups funding goes to?

if Chavez thinks his enemies would dream of deposing him, he's claramente loco. :sarcasm:

:sarcasm: