HIZBALLAH JOINS WITH LATIN AMERICAN DRUG CARTELS, CREATING MAJOR THREAT
TO FLORIDA
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/hizballah-joins-with-latin-american-drug-cartels-creating-major-threat-to-florida; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
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….
