Impending Terror Threat Unreported
February 16, 2003
By Toby Westerman
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As warnings of imminent terror attacks melt into reports of false informants and failed lie detector tests, a real and determined enemy is carefully carrying out plans for America's destruction.
The dominant media - both left and right - have paid scant attention to the latest development in an increasingly sophisticated international consortium of nations united in hatred against the U.S.
Iran -- a burgeoning nuclear power and one of the nations comprising the "axis of evil" -- is strengthening its ties with Cuba, a Marxist nation with a demonstrated capacity to easily infiltrate the territory and government of the United States.
Demonstrating its developing commitment to Cuba, Iran's ambassador to Havana, Ahmad Edrisian, last week defined his nation's relations with the Caribbean island nation as "excellent," and one which will "continue to grow" in "political, economic, and cultural" areas, according to Radio Havana Cuba, the official broadcasting service of the Cuban government.
The U.S. suspects Iran of assisting Cuba in the development of biological weapons, but Iran claims that it is engaged in "humanitarian and scientific" exchanges with the communist-dominated island.
Iran, however, declares that it is joined with Cuba in a "common struggle."
During Cuban President Fidel Castro's visit to Iran in May 2001 - four months before the 9/11 terror attacks against New York and Washington D.C., -- Iranian supreme leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei proposed "Irano-Cuban cooperation" against the U.S., declaring that "the United States is weak and extremely vulnerable today," according to an Agence France-Presse report issued during the Castro visit.
Iran and Cuba are both "leading nations" in the "Group of 77," an association of some 133 primarily underdeveloped nations in the Southern Hemisphere.
The "G-77" has a track record of agreeing to proposals hostile to the U.S., and of identifying wealthy nations as the enemy. Castro called for "the current economic world order" to be subject to "an international legal process similar to the Nuremberg trails," at the opening "G-77" session, April 2000.
Cuba also has close relations with Libya, Syria, and North Korea, all nations declared by the U.S. to be supporters of terrorism. Castro states that the Cuban and Libyan revolutions "have similar objectives," as he praises Syrian leader Bashar Assad, and calls for the expansion and strengthening of "fraternal ties" with Stalinist North Korea.
Of Castro's good friends, Libya is developing longer-range missiles and seeking to obtain a source of uranium, Syria is reported to be hiding advanced Iraqi weaponry, and North Korea is threatening the U.S. with atomic warfare.
While the United States defines Iran, Cuba, Syria, and North Korea as dangers to the U.S. and world peace, the media ignore the mutual cooperation between these supporters of terror.
The media - left and right - also neglect to identify the supporters of these regimes. Communist China and "democratic" Russia back Iran, Cuba, Libya, Syria, North Korea - and the current U.S. preoccupation -- Iraq. (There is a public split between Moscow and Havana over Russia's closure of the Lourdes spy base in Cuba, but Cuba still receives aid from China, which is in turn supported by Russia).
Nations which the U.S. defines as part of an "axis of evil," or as supporters of terrorism, must have support from larger nations. Both Moscow and Beijing are defenders of nations which are overtly hostile to the U.S., but this is not addressed by the media.
If America ignores these threats, the bomb blasts and guerrilla warfare now experienced in the South American nation of Colombia will come to America with a force more terrible than the wildest dreams of al Qaeda or its ilk.
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