Reports: Hezbollah setting up bases in Venezuela

According to reports in Ha'aretz and LA Times, US and Israeli security officials fear that Hezbollah is setting up bases in Venezuela, with the cooperation of the Chavez regime.

 

Latin American involvement of the Hezbollah is not exactly a novelty. Deep Hezbollah entrenchment in Paraguay made possible the bombings in Argentina in revenge for the death of the former Hezbollah leader. Now officials fear the Hezbollah may use Venezuela as a base for a similar revenge attack for the death of Imad Moughnieh, the top Hezbollah terrorist responsible for the Argentinean bombings as well as murder of US troops in Lebanon in the 80s. There is no proof of Israeli involvement in the death of Moughnieh, which occurred in Damascus. Moughnieh's car blew up. For folks like that, such occurrences are properly classed as "death by natural causes." He had earned a lot of enemies.